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Explainable and Lightweight Model for COVID-19 Detection Using Chest Radiology Images

2022/12/28 by S Suba, S, Suba, Nita Parekh +1
Computer Science · Medicine · #AI in cancer detection #COVID-19 diagnosis using AI #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Image and Video Processing (eess.IV) #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging #electronic engineering #information engineering

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2212.13788

openalex publication_date 2022/12/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Deep learning (DL) analysis of Chest X-ray (CXR) and Computed tomography (CT) images has garnered a lot of attention in recent times due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are well suited for the image analysis tasks when trained on humongous amounts of data. Applications developed for medical image analysis require high sensitivity and precision compared to any other fields. Most of the tools proposed for detection of COVID-19 claims to have high sensitivity and recalls but have failed to generalize and perform when tested on unseen datasets. This encouraged us to develop a CNN model, analyze and understand the performance of it by visualizing the predictions of the model using class activation maps generated using (Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping) Grad-CAM technique. This study provides a detailed discussion of the success and failure of the proposed model at an image level. Performance of the model is compared with state-of-the-art DL models and shown to be comparable. The data and code used are available at https://github.com/aleesuss/c19.

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