Transfer Learning Based Multiclass Classification For Covid-19 Detection Using Chest X-Rays
Abstract In the year 2020 world came to a halt due to spread of Covid-19 or SARS-CoV2 which was first identified in Wuhan, China. Since then, it has caused plethora of problems around the globe such as loss of millions of lives, economic instability etc. Less effectiveness of detection through Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction and also prolonged time needed for detection through the same calls for a substitute for Covid-19 detection. Hence, in this study, we aim to develop a transfer learning based multi-class classifier using Chest X-Ray images which will classify the X-Ray images in 3 classes (Covid-19, Pneumonia, Normal). Further, the proposed model has been trained with deep learning classifiers namely: DenseNet201, Xception, ResNet50V2, VGG16, VGG-19, InceptionResNetV2 .These are evaluated on the basis of accuracy, precision and recall as performance parameters. It has been observed that DenseNet201 is the best deep learning model with 82.2% accuracy.