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COVID-19 Diagnosis Through Deep Learning Techniques and Chest X-Ray Images

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The new coronavirus pandemic has brought disruption to the world. The lack of mass testing for the population is among the significant dilemmas to be solved by countries, especially underdeveloped ones. An alternative to deal with the lack of tests is detecting the disease by analyzing radiographic images. To process different types of images automatically, we employed deep learning algorithms to achieve success in recognizing different diagnostics. This work aims to train a deep learning model capable of automatically recognizing the COVID-19 diagnosis through radiographic images. Comparing images of coronavirus, healthy lung, and bacterial and viral pneumonia, we obtained a result with 93% accuracy.

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    Ramoni Reus Barros Negreiros, Isabel Heloíse Santos Silva & André Luiz Firmino Alves

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    Dalton Cézane Gomes Valadares & Angelo Perkusich

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    Ramoni Reus Barros Negreiros, André Luiz Firmino Alves, Dalton Cézane Gomes Valadares, Angelo Perkusich & Cláudio de Souza Baptista

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Negreiros, R.R.B., Silva, I.H.S., Alves, A.L.F. et al. COVID-19 Diagnosis Through Deep Learning Techniques and Chest X-Ray Images. SN COMPUT. SCI. 4, 613 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-023-02043-1

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