Covid-19 and Pneumonia Infection Detection from Chest X-Ray Images using U-Net, EfficientNetB1, XGBoost and Recursive Feature Elimination

The pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus is the most serious current threat to the public's health. For the purpose of identifying patients with Covid-19, Chest X-Rays have proven to be an indispensable imaging modality for the hospital. Nevertheless, radiologists are needed to commit a significant amount of time to their interpretation. It is possible to diagnose and triage cases of Covid-19 effectively and rapidly with the assistance of precise computer systems that are powered by Machine Learning techniques. Machine Learning techniques such as Deep Feature Extraction can help detect the disease with improved precision and speed when used in conjunction with X-Ray images of the lung. This helps to alleviate the problem of lack of testing kits. Using the U-Net for Semantic image segmentation for lung segmentation and deep feature extraction-based strategy that was suggested in this research, it is possible to differentiate between patients who have contracted the Covid-19 virus, pneumonia and healthy people. XGBoost and recursive feature extraction based proposed methodology is evaluated using 20 different Pre-Trained deep learning based models including EfficientNet variations and it is observed that the maximum detection accuracy, precision, recall specificity, and F1-score are achieved when EfficientNetB1 is used to extract deep features. The respective values for these metrics are 97.6%, 0.964, 0.964, and 0.982. These findings lend credence to the efficiency of the proposed methodology.

@article{Lunagaria2022,
  title     = {Covid-19 and Pneumonia Infection Detection from Chest X-Ray Images using U-Net, EfficientNetB1, XGBoost and Recursive Feature Elimination},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {13},
  number    = {9},
  year      = {2022},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Munindra Lunagaria and Vijay Katkar and Krunal Vaghela},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130954},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130954}
}