Classification of COVID-19 in chest X-ray images using DeTraC deep convolutional neural network

Understand

Chest X-ray is the first imaging technique that plays an important role in the diagnosis of COVID-19 disease.

• Due to the high availability of large-scale annotated image datasets, great success has been achieved using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image recognition and classification.
• However, due to the limited availability of annotated medical images, the classification of medical images remains the biggest challenge in medical diagnosis.
• Thanks to transfer learning, an effective mechanism that can provide a promising solution by transferring knowledge from generic object recognition tasks to domain-specific tasks.