DOI : https://doi.org/10.18517/ijaseit.10.2.11446

Performance Evaluation of the NASNet Convolutional Network in the Automatic Identification of COVID-19

Fredy Martínez (1), Fernando Martínez (2), Edwar Jacinto (3)
(1) Facultad Tecnológica, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas Carrera 7 No. 40B-53, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
(2) Facultad Tecnológica, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas Carrera 7 No. 40B-53, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
(3) Facultad Tecnológica, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas Carrera 7 No. 40B-53, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
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Martínez, Fredy, et al. “Performance Evaluation of the NASNet Convolutional Network in the Automatic Identification of COVID-19”. International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology, vol. 10, no. 2, Apr. 2020, pp. 662-7, doi:10.18517/ijaseit.10.2.11446.
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This paper evaluates the performance of the Neural Architecture Search Network (NASNet) in the automatic detection of COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) from chest x-ray images. COVID-19 is a disease caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that produces in patients fever, cough, shortness of breath, muscle pain, sputum production, diarrhea, and even sore throat. The virus spreads through the air, and to date, is expanding as a global pandemic. There is no vaccine, and it is fatal to approximately 2-7% of the infected population. Among the clinical and paraclinical characteristics of infected patients, nodules have been identified in images of chest x-rays that can be visually identified, producing a simple, rapid, and generally available method of identification. However, the rapid spread of the disease means that there is a lack of specialized medical personnel capable of identifying it, which is why automated schemes are being developed. We propose the tuning of a NASNet-type convolutional model to automatically determine the initial state of a patient in the triage process or intervention protocol of health care centers. The neural network is trained with public images of cases positively identified as patients infected with the virus and patients in normal conditions without infection. Performance evaluation is also done with real images unknown to the neuronal model. As for performance metrics, we use the function of loss of cross-entropy (categorical cross-entropy), the accuracy (or success rate), and the MSE (Mean Squared Error). The tuned model was able to correctly classify the test images with an accuracy of 97%.

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