Automated detection of COVID-19 cases from chest X-ray images using deep neural network and XGBoost
This work addresses the need for automated COVID-19 detection from medical images, but it is incremental as it combines existing deep learning and boosting techniques.
The paper tackled the problem of detecting COVID-19 cases from chest X-ray images by proposing a method using DenseNet169 for feature extraction and XGBoost for classification, achieving higher accuracy and speed compared to existing methods.
In late 2019 and after COVID-19 pandemic in the world, many researchers and scholars have tried to provide methods for detection of COVID-19 cases. Accordingly, this study focused on identifying COVID-19 cases from chest X-ray images. In this paper, a novel approach to diagnosing coronavirus disease from X-ray images was proposed. In the proposed method, DenseNet169 deep neural network was used to extract the features of X-ray images taken from the patients' chest and the extracted features were then given as input to the Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) algorithm so that it could perform the classification task. Evaluation of the proposed approach and its comparison with the methods presented in recent years revealed that the proposed method was more accurate and faster than the existing ones and had an acceptable performance in detection of COVID-19 cases from X-ray images.