Extracting possibly representative COVID-19 Biomarkers from X-Ray images with Deep Learning approach and image data related to Pulmonary Diseases

Abstract

In this study, the problem of automatically classifying pulmonary diseases, including the recently emerged COVID-19, from X-Ray images, is considered. While the spread of COVID-19 is increased, new, automatic, and reliable methods for accurate detection are essential to reduce the exposure of the medical experts to the outbreak. X-ray imaging, although limited to specific visualizations, may be helpful for the diagnosis. Deep Learning has proven to be a remarkable method to extract massive high-dimensional features from medical images. Specifically, in this paper, the state-of-the-art Convolutional Neural Network called Mobile Net is employed and trained from scratch to investigate the importance of the extracted features for the classification task. A large-scale dataset of 3905 X-Ray images, corresponding to 6 diseases is utilized for training MobileNet v2, which has been proven to achieve remarkable results in related tasks. The results suggest that training CNNs from scratch may reveal vital biomarkers related but not limited to the COVID-19 disease, while an overall classification accuracy of the seven classes reaches 87.66%. Besides, this method achieves 99.18% accuracy, 97.36% Sensitivity, and 99.42% Specificity in the detection of COVID-19.

arXiv comment14 pages, 1 figure, Submitted Manuscript

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