CoroNet: A deep neural network for detection and diagnosis of COVID-19 from chest x-ray images.

Journal: Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The novel Coronavirus also called COVID-19 originated in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and has now spread across the world. It has so far infected around 1.8 million people and claimed approximately 114,698 lives overall. As the number of cases are rapidly increasing, most of the countries are facing shortage of testing kits and resources. The limited quantity of testing kits and increasing number of daily cases encouraged us to come up with a Deep Learning model that can aid radiologists and clinicians in detecting COVID-19 cases using chest X-rays.

Authors

  • Asif Iqbal Khan
    Department of Computer Science, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. Electronic address: khanasifiqbal7@gmail.com.
  • Junaid Latief Shah
    Higher Education Department, J&K, India.
  • Mohammad Mudasir Bhat
    Lelafe IT Solutions, J&K, India.