%0 Journal Article
%@ 1660-4601
%A Kaur, Prabhjot
%A Harnal, Shilpi
%A Tiwari, Rajeev
%A Alharithi, Fahd S.
%A Almulihi, Ahmed H.
%A Delgado Noya, Irene
%A Goyal, Nitin
%D 2021
%F uninimx:530
%J International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
%K convolutional neural network; COVID-19; disease detection; InceptionV4; SVM; chest XR images
%N 22
%P 12191
%T A Hybrid Convolutional Neural Network Model for Diagnosis of COVID-19 Using Chest X-ray Images
%U http://repositorio.unini.edu.mx/id/eprint/530/
%V 18
%X COVID-19 declared as a pandemic that has a faster rate of infection and has impacted the lives and the country’s economy due to forced lockdowns. Its detection using RT-PCR is required long time and due to which its infection has grown exponentially. This creates havoc for the shortage of testing kits in many countries. This work has proposed a new image processing-based technique for the health care systems named “C19D-Net”, to detect “COVID-19” infection from “Chest X-Ray” (XR) images, which can help radiologists to improve their accuracy of detection COVID-19. The proposed system extracts deep learning (DL) features by applying the InceptionV4 architecture and Multiclass SVM classifier to classify and detect COVID-19 infection into four different classes. The dataset of 1900 Chest XR images has been collected from two publicly accessible databases. Images are pre-processed with proper scaling and regular feeding to the proposed model for accuracy attainments. Extensive tests are conducted with the proposed model (“C19D-Net”) and it has succeeded to achieve the highest COVID-19 detection accuracy as 96.24% for 4-classes, 95.51% for three-classes, and 98.1% for two-classes. The proposed method has outperformed well in expressions of “precision”, “accuracy”, “F1-score” and “recall” in comparison with most of the recent previously published methods. As a result, for the present situation of COVID-19, the proposed “C19D-Net” can be employed in places where test kits are in short supply, to help the radiologists to improve their accuracy of detection of COVID-19 patients through XR-Images.