COVID-19 is a respiratory disease that causes infection in both lungs and the upper respiratory tract. The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared it a global pandemic because of its rapid spread across the globe. The most common way for COVID-19 diagnosis is real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) which takes a significant amount of time to get the result. Computer based medical image analysis is more beneficial for the diagnosis of such disease as it can give better results in less time. Computed Tomography (CT) scans are used to monitor lung diseases including COVID-19. In this work, a hybrid model for COVID-19 detection has developed which has two key stages. In the first stage, we have fine-tuned the parameters of the pre-trained convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to extract some features from the COVID-19 affected lungs. As pre-trained CNNs, we have used two standard CNNs namely, GoogleNet and ResNet18. Then, we have proposed a hybrid meta-heuristic feature selection (FS) algorithm, named as Manta Ray Foraging based Golden Ratio Optimizer (MRFGRO) to select the most significant feature subset. The proposed model is implemented over three publicly available datasets, namely, COVID-CT dataset, SARS-COV-2 dataset, and MOSMED dataset, and attains state-of-the-art classification accuracies of 99.15%, 99.42% and 95.57% respectively. Obtained results confirm that the proposed approach is quite efficient when compared to the local texture descriptors used for COVID-19 detection from chest CT-scan images.
【저자키워드】 Infectious diseases, Scientific data, Computer science, Software, 【초록키워드】 COVID-19, Infection, Diagnosis, lung, Lung disease, Local, RT-PCR, Image analysis, global pandemic, Spread, Computed tomography, Convolutional neural networks, CNN, polymerase chain reaction, Accuracy, Lungs, Algorithm, Lung diseases, Respiratory disease, COVID-19 diagnosis, WHO, dataset, respiratory, disease, upper respiratory tract, Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, Analysis, Health Organization, Chain Reaction, first stage, both lungs, World Health Organization, Golden Ratio, stages, foraging, real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, computer, datasets, CNNs, chest CT-scan, MONITOR, parameter, approach, feature, affected, globe, less, cause, subset, Ratio, Ray, 【제목키워드】 COVID-19, feature,