DEEP LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR COVID-19 DISEASE DETECTION: A META-ANALYSIS

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Faisal Maqbool Zahid
Shahla Faisal
Mohsin Ali
Khawar Shahzad
Ayesha Khaliq

Keywords

Artificial Intelligence, COVID-19, Diagnostic Accuracy, Sensitivity, Specificity

Abstract

Deep learning has been identified as a new technology with the potential to support medical decision-making for a variety of disorders, including localized and diffuse COVID-19 disease. In the medical field, deep learning has gained importance for processing the complexity and amount of imaging data like CT scans and X-ray images. The current study evaluates the detection accuracy of deep learning methods for the detection of COVID-19. A search technique was devised to search three databases Web of Science, PubMed, and Google Scholar, and looked for studies that were published between January 1 and December 15, 2020. The meta-analysis was performed using the selected 22 studies, comprising 4595 chest X-ray images obtained from the patients of COVID-19. The value for pooled sensitivity obtained was 0.91 with a 95% CI of 0.89-0.94 and for pooled specificity was 0.94 with a 95% CI of 0.90-0.96. The value of heterogeneity was obtained I2 = 78%, (p < 0.01). Our findings demonstrate that deep learning models have a great potential for appropriately classifying COVID-19 cases and separating them from patients suffering from other types of pneumonia as well as healthy people. Implementing deep learning-based technologies can help radiologists detect COVID-19 correctly and promptly, and thereby address the COVID-19 pandemic. Health practitioners can use artificial intelligence and deep learning systems to make faster and more efficient decisions.

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