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A New Approach to COVID-19 Detection Using Alexnet from Chest CT Images

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Background: At the beginning of 2020, the pneumonia-like COVID-19 virus spread rapidly worldwide. With the emergence of this dangerous virus, work, and daily life have become very difficult. To control this virus, all the centers are closed and quarantined by the government and the countries of the world. Every day, many people from all over the world die due to COVID-19. Many efforts are being made in all fields to diagnose and treat people infected with this virus. For this reason, many researchers started working on identifying this virus and its types. The Scientifics, in computer science, did not sit idle either.
Method: In some studies, different image processing methods and algorithms have been used to extract the edge features of the Computed Tomography (CT) images of the lung. In this clinical-computerized study, lung CT images of non-infected and infected people from different hospitals in Lorestan province were used. This collection has 90 stereotypes of images in jpg format of CT scans of people's lungs, each file has more than 200 images from different angles of lung imaging. The preprocessing methods were the first step of the research. In the second phase, edge detection was applied to the dataset to get the highest accuracy rate. Consequently, a classification Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-AlexNet architecture was used to reach the final aim.
Results: The results show that the average accuracy rate of image edge extraction with a threshold value of 0.1 is 93% and the accuracy rate of AlexNet architecture classification is 100%. The proposed method helps physicians to improve disease diagnosis from lung CT images to achieve a more accurate detection rate.
Conclusion: This study shows that the CNN-AlexNet architecture effectively increases the diagnosis accuracy rate than the other methods. It is suggested that educational programs for researchers in the field of disease detection from radiology images be provided and that the effectiveness of different types of deep learning methods be compared in future studies.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.18502/igj.v7i1.17518
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AlexNet COVID-19 Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Edge Detection Algorithms
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Joudaki S, Homayonfar L. A New Approach to COVID-19 Detection Using Alexnet from Chest CT Images. Immunol Genet J. 2024;7(1):30-44.