Identification of SARS-CoV-2 Pneumonia in Chest X-ray Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks

Paola I. Delena-García, José D. Torres-Rodríguez, Blanca Tovar-Corona, Álvaro Anzueto-Ríos, Nadia L. Fragoso-Olvera, Alberto Flores-Patricio, Victor M. Camarillo-Nava

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Abstract

In 2019, COVID-19 disease emerged in Wuhan, China, leading to a pandemic that saturated health systems, raising the need to develop effective diagnostic methods. This work presents an approach based on artificial intelligence applied to X-ray images obtained from Mexican patients, provided by Hospital General de Zona No. 24. A dataset of 612 images with 2 classes: COVID and HEALTHY, were labelled by a radiologist and also verified with positive RT-PCR test. The first class contains X-ray images of patients with pneumonia due to SARS-CoV-2 and the second contains patients without diseases affecting the lung parenchyma. The proposed work aims to classify COVID-19 pneumonia using convolutional neural networks to provide the physician with a suggestive diagnosis. Images were automatically trimmed and then transfer learning was applied to VGG-16 and ResNet-50 models, which were trained and tested using the generated dataset, both achieving an accuracy, recall, specificity and F1-score of over 98%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTelematics and Computing - 11th International Congress, WITCOM 2022, Proceedings
EditorsMiguel Félix Mata-Rivera, Roberto Zagal-Flores, Cristian Barria-Huidobro
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages157-172
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783031180811
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event11th International Congress of Telematics and Computing, WITCOM 2022 - Cancún, Mexico
Duration: 7 Nov 202211 Nov 2022

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume1659 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Conference

Conference11th International Congress of Telematics and Computing, WITCOM 2022
Country/TerritoryMexico
CityCancún
Period7/11/2211/11/22

Keywords

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • COVID-19
  • Chest X-ray
  • Convolutional neural networks
  • Pneumonia

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