Document Type

Article

Publication Title

arXiv

Abstract

Despite the introduction of vaccines, Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) remains a worldwide dilemma, continuously developing new variants such as Delta and the recent Omicron. The current standard for testing is through polymerase chain reaction (PCR). However, PCRs can be expensive, slow, and/or inaccessible to many people. X-rays on the other hand have been readily used since the early 20th century and are relatively cheaper, quicker to obtain, and typically covered by health insurance. With a careful selection of model, hyperparameters, and augmentations, we show that it is possible to develop models with 83% accuracy in binary classification and 64% in multi-class for detecting COVID-19 infections from chest x-rays. © 2022, CC BY.

DOI

doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2201.10885

Publication Date

1-26-2022

Keywords

Coronavirus, Polymerase chain reaction, 'current, 20th century, Binary classification, Chest x-rays, Coronaviruses, COVID-19, Hyper-parameter, Hyper-parameter optimizations, Standards for testing, Health insurance, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV), Image and Video Processing (eess.IV), Machine Learning (cs.LG)

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