TECHNICAL ANSWERS FOR REALWORLD PROBLEMS

(ECE3999)
REVIEW 1

PROJECT TITLE: COVID-19 ANALYSIS THROUGH CHEST

X-RAYS
TEAM MEMBERS

• Meghdeep Kar – 17BIS0054

• Anustoop Roy – 17BEC0696
• Debanik Majumder – 17BEC0026
• Kaushanu Debnath – 17BEC0927
• Gautam Kumar Mahato – 17BEC0099
 Need / Justification for selecting the topic
We know Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
2 (SARS-CoV-2). It was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei, China, and has resulted in an ongoing pandemic. The
first confirmed case has been traced back to 17 November 2019 in Hubei. As of 24 July 2020, more than 15.5 million cases have
been reported across 188 countries and territories, resulting in more than 633,000 deaths. More than 8.81 million people have
recovered. Novel Machine Learning Algorithms and neural networks helps to reduce the Corona Virus detection time and aids the
doctor to drive the consultation in better way. Machine learning (ML) methods can play vital roles in identifying COVID-19
patients by visually analyzing their chest x-ray images. So, in order to help and detect the Coronavirus affected patients efficiently,
we choose this topic.
Background work done for problem identification

During the recent global urgency, scientists, clinicians, and healthcare experts around the globe keep on searching for a new technology to
support in tackling the Covid-19 pandemic. But the COVID-19 affects different people in different ways. Most infected people will develop
mild to moderate illness and sometimes a Cough and low-grade fever? But just by seeing these symptoms we can’t say that it could be
COVID-19 or it could simply be allergies. It’s impossible to know without a test, and that “not knowing” is what makes this situation so
scary from a visceral human level.

To quickly detect pneumonia - and therefore better distinguish between COVID-19 patients likely to need more supportive care we can use
Machine learning

The evidence of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) application on the previous epidemic encourage researchers by giving
a new angle to fight against the novel Coronavirus outbreak. Artificial intelligence has shown the promising results in health care through its
decision making by analysing the data. COVID-19 has affected more than 100 countries in a matter of no time. People all over the world are
vulnerable to its consequences in future. It is imperative to develop a control system that will detect the coronavirus

 This project aims to comprehensively review the role of AI and ML as one significant method in the arena of screening and predicting for
SARS-CoV-2 and its related epidemic.

 
 Problems identified

◦ COVID-19 is a global challenge that should be addressed by all scientific means. Medical image analysis is a well-
known approach that could be beneficial in the diagnosis of COVID-19. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
(SARS) and COVID-19 belong to the same family of Coronaviruses, where the detection of SARS cases using chest
images proposed by several methods and for pneumonia detection in general.
◦ Machine learning has demonstrated high performance for several image processing applications such as image
analysis image classification and image segmentation Image classification achieved by extracting the import
features from the images by a descriptor (e.g., SIFT and image moment), and then these features can be used in the
classification task using classifiers such as SVM.
◦ In contrast to handcrafted features, deep neural network-based methods provides high performance in classifying
the images according to the extracted features.
◦ According to the characteristics of ML, several efforts utilized machine learning-based methods to classify the chest
x-ray images into COVID-19 patient class or normal case class. We utilized deep learning-based approaches.
◦ For instance, here we proposed a CNN model for the automatic diagnosis of COVID-19 from chest x-ray images.
 Objectives to find possible solution to the identified problem

◦ Corona - COVID19 virus affects the respiratory system of healthy individual & Chest X -Ray is one of the important imaging methods to
identify the corona virus.
◦ With the Chest X - Ray dataset, Develop a Machine Learning Model to classify the X Rays of Healthy vs Pneumonia (Corona) affected
patients & this model powers the AI application to test the Corona Virus in Faster Phase.
◦ Collection Chest X Ray of Healthy vs Pneumonia (Corona) affected patients infected patients along with few other categories such as SARS
(Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ) ,Streptococcus & ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome)
◦ Handling missing data
◦ Visualization of Unknown Data
◦ Display Images
◦ Histogram analysis of Images
◦ Image Augmentation
◦ Model Development
◦ Plots to estimate loss and accuracy
◦ CNN predictions
◦ MobileNet predictions
Tools(Software/Hardware) required for implementation
◦ Python

LIBRARIES REQUIRED
1. Tensorflow and Keras
2. Matplotlib
3. Pandas
4. Numpy
5. PIL
6. Scikit-Learn

MODELS REQUIRED :
7. Simple Convolutional Neural Networks
8. DenseNet121
9. MobileNet_V2
Work Plan
◦ Data Collection. The quantity & quality of your data dictates how accurate our model is.
◦ Data Preparation. Wrangle data and prepare it for training.
◦ Choose a Model.
◦ Train the Model.
◦ Evaluate the Model.
◦ Parameter Tuning.
◦ Make Predictions.

Schedule
◦ Review 1- Distribution of work and arranging the dataset
◦ Review 2- Figuring out the algorithm and writing the code
◦ Review 3- Final debugging and completing project with working output