Detection of COVID-19 using Chest X-rays

Abstract

We train a deep learning algorithm to flag potential covid-19 infected in chest x-rays. The deep learning algorithm used is a Convolutional Neural Network that is 121 layers deep. Due to the lack of a large open-source of covid-19 infected x-ray images, we combine data from five different sources. Combined, the dataset has 17,194 images that are used for training procedure. The model classifies a given chest X-ray image as either a "Normal", "Covid-19", or a 'Pneumonia" infection. The trained model has a 0.93 F1 Score and 93.496% accuracy.