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. 2021 Jun 24;11(7):1155. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics11071155

Table 3.

Comparison between AI diagnosis algorithms based on X-ray for COVID-19 patients.

Ref. Year Method Task Dataset Evaluation Measures
ACC (%) P (%) SN (%)
[52] July 2020 Multi-image augmented Deep learning Using both X-ray and CT images to provide binary classification model 100 cases of COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 99.4 for X-ray,
95.3 for CT scans
95.98 94.78
[53] April 2020 VGG16, VGG19, ResNet, DenseNet, and InceptionV3 Evaluate the performance of CNN architecture and transfer learning in the COVID-19 classification process 1427 X-ray images include (224 COVID-19 + cases, 700 pf pneumonia, and 503 normal cases) 96.78 98.65 96.46
[54] November 2020 Using SVM (Support Vector Machine), CNN (Conventional Neural Networks),
ResNet50, InceptionResNetV2, Xception, VGGNet16
Examine the health status of the patient’s lung based on CT scan and X-ray 5857 Chest X-rays and 767 Chest CTs for COVID-19 positive cases (84 for X-ray,
75 for CT scan)
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[55] September 2020 Machine learning techniques Multiclass classification 350 images from confirmed cases, 220 images from suspected cases, and 130 images from normal cases 67.5 - -
[56] May 2020 Using encoder and decoder for segmentation, then use multilayer perceptron for image classification Multitask model that includes three main steps: (1) image classification; (2) lesion segmentation; and (3) image reconstruction 1044 divided as (449 patients with COVID-19, 100 normal cases, 98 patients with lung cancer, and 398 with different pathology kinds 78 - -
[57] April 2020 COVID-net model: CNN model that trained first on ImageNet dataset then trained in COVIDx dataset Analyzing patient data, predicting patient risk and hospitalization duration 13,975 images with many X-ray positive cases from various countries) 92.4 88.3 -
[50] May 2020 Detecting features of X-ray image using CNN model then fed into SVM to make COVID-19 classification Binary classification Total of 50 images (25 for COVID-19 + 25 for pneumonia) 95.33 95.33 -
[58] April 2020 COVID-Xnet model that builds on CNN models such as VGG19 and google MobileNet Binary classification Total of 50 images (25 for COVID-19 + 25 for non-COVID-19) 90
[24] May 2020 Using a darknet model for classification, YOLO for real-time object detection Developed binary classification model that differentiates COVID-19 cases from healthy cases 1125 X-ray images (500 health cases, 125 COVID-19 positive cases, and 500 from pneumonia cases 98.02 95.13 95.3
[59] October 2020 Deep learning and transfer learning models (ResNet50, inception V3, etc.) COVID-19 diagnosis using X-ray images 100 X-ray images (50 COVID-19, 50 non-COVID-19) extracted form Dr. Chohen GitHub repository 98
[60] March 2020 Supervised pre-trained based 2D model called DeCOVNET Diagnostic tool for COVID-19 detection using 3D images 499 CT images aggregated from 13 December 2019, to 23 January 2020, used for the training process.
131 CT images aggregated from 24 January to 6 February, were used for the testing process
90.01 90.65 91.21
[61] February 2020 DL model based on relation extraction Using 3D images to fast diagnose COVID-19 from pneumonia CT scans images from 88 patients with positive COVID-19, 101 images from patients infected with bacteria pneumonia, and 86 images of healthy cases. 94.21 96.32 94.0
[62] July 2020 Anomaly detection algorithm with efficient Net Multiclass classification based on anomaly detection technology Model firstly trained on 5977 images of viral pneumonia (no COVID-19) cases and 37,393 healthy cases. Then testing on the X-COVID dataset that include106 COVID-19 cases 72.77 71.30 -
[63] June 2020 Using different pre-trained models (ResNet, AlexNet, SGDM- SqueezNet) Using image augmentation in enhancing COVID-19 classification 423 X-rays of COVID-19 cases, 1485 X-rays of viral pneumonia cases, and 1579 of normal cases 98.2 96.7 98.2
[64] June 2020 Feature optimization technique with Deep CNN model, known as COVXNet COVID-19 detection Viral, normal, and bacterial dataset available at (https://github.com/Perceptron21/CovXNet) (Last access date: 10 February 2021) 98.1 98.5 98.9
[65] May 2020 Data augmentation and DL classification models COVID-19 detection A set of 5232 anterior–posterior (AP) images of children with ages from 1 to 5.
It includes 1583 normal cases, 2780 bacterial pneumonia, and 1493 CXRs with COVID-19
99.25 - -