Discriminating the Pneumonia-Positive Images from COVID-19-Positive Images Using an Integrated Convolutional Neural Network

Abstract

One of the most pressing issues in the current COVID-19 pandemic is the early detection and diagnosis of COVID-19, as well as the precise separation of non-COVID-19 cases at the lowest possible cost and during the disease's early stages. Deep learning-based models have the potential to provide an accurate and efficient approach for the identification and diagnosis of COVID-19, with considerable increases in sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy when used in the processing of modalities. COVID-19 illness is difficult to detect and recognize since it is comparable to pneumonia. The main objective of this study is to distinguish between COVID-19-positive images and pneumonia-positive images. We have proposed an integrated convolutional neural network focused on discriminating against COVID-19-infected patients and pneumonia patients. Preprocessing is done on the image datasets. The novelty of this research work is to differentiate the COVID-19 images from the pneumonia images. It will help the medical experts in the decision-making. In order to train the model, the image is given directly as input to integrated convolutional neural network architecture; after training the model, the system is integrated with three different kinds of datasets: COVID-19 image dataset, RSNA pneumonia dataset, and a new dataset created from COVID-19 image dataset. The attainment of the system is evaluated by calculating the measures of sensitivity, specificity, precision, and accuracy, and this system produces the accuracy values of 94.04%, 97.2%, and 97.5% for the above datasets, respectively.