Published Paper Details:

With the exponentially growing COVID-19 (corona virus disease 2019) pandemic, clinicians continue to seek accurate and rapid diagnosis methods in addition to virus and antibody testing modalities. Because radiographs such as X-rays and computed tomography (CT) scans are cost-effective and widely available at public health facilities, hospital emergency rooms (ERs), and even at rural clinics, they could be used for rapid detection of possible COVID-19-induced lung infections. Therefore, toward automating the COVID-19 detection, we propose a viable and efficient deep learning-based chest radiograph framework to analyze COVID-19 cases with accuracy. A unique dataset is prepared from available sources containing the chest view of CT scan/X-ray data for COVID-19 cases. Our proposed framework leverages a data augmentation of radiograph images algorithm for the COVID-19 data, by adaptively employing the MATLAB and NeuroSolution on COVID-19 infected chest images to generate a train a robust model. The training data consisting of actual and synthetic chest images are fed into our customized neural network model, which achieves COVID-19 detection with good accuracy. Furthermore, through this it is possible to efficiently automate COVID-19 detection from radiograph images to provide a fast and reliable evidence of COVID-19 infection in the lung that can complement existing COVID-19 diagnostics modalities.