“…Chronicobstructivepulmonarydisease(COPD)isoneoftheleadingchestdiseaseandthemajor reasonofworldwidedeathwhichcausedapproximately3.25deathsin2019 (WHO,2022a).Similarly, theriskofCOVID-19isfoundmoreintenseinthosepeoplewhohaveill-healthstatelikelungor heartdiseases (WHO,2022b).Theearlyandcautiousdiagnosisofmayreducethedeathrateand thereforemanylivescanbesaved.However,identifyingtheresponsiblevirusesarequitechallenging astheyhavevaryingstructuralrepresentationandmaychangeovertheperiodoftime.Anaffected butunidentifiedvirusinlungregionexaminationmayleadtothedeath.Nevertheless,chancesof manualmistakemayleadtounexpectedtreatmentduetothisshortdurationofinvestigation.One ofthebestwaystorecognizetheaffectedpatientsufferedfromCOVID-19infectionisthroughthe analysisofchestX-rayimages.Astherearealargenumberofpatientsinhospitals,itwouldbetime-consuminganddifficulttoexaminenumerousX-rayimages,soitcanbeveryusefultoutilizean artificialintelligence(AI)approachtoaccuratelyperformtherecognitionautomatically.Nowadays medicalfieldisalsobeingfacilitatedwiththeadvancementofseveralintelligenttechniques,which assiststheprecisedecisionmakingofdoctorsandphysician.Inthisdomain,severalimageprocessing andoptimizationapproacheshavebeenappliedtounderstandthedifferentdatapatternsinseveral applications (DeepakKumarDewangan;YogeshRathore,2011;BhattacharyaandDewangan,2015;Bhattacharya, Dewangan and Dewangan, 2018;Pandey, Dewangan and Dewangan, 2018;D. K. DewanganandSahu,2021;Sahuet al,2021),buttheirperformancehasbeenexperimentedagainst thestandardconditions.Inthisdirection,recentdevelopmentinmachineanddeeplearningtechniques have leveraged the performance of the AI based systems (A.…”