Viability and Applicability of Deep Learning Approach for COVID-19 Preventive Measures Implementation

Abstract

The deadliest COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) is expanding steadily and internationally due to which the nation economy almost come to a complete halt; citizens are locked up; activity is stagnant and this turn toward fear of government for the health predicament. Public healthcare organizations are mostly in despair need of decision-making emerging technologies to confront this virus and enable individuals to get quick and efficient feedback in real-time to prevent it from spreading. Therefore, it becomes necessary to establish auto-mechanisms as a preventative measure to protect humanity from SARS-CoV-2. Intelligence automation tools as well as techniques could indeed encourage educators and the medical community to understand dangerous COVID-19 and speed up treatment investigations by assessing huge amounts of research data quickly. The outcome of preventing approach has been used to help evaluate, measure, predict, and track current infected patients and potentially upcoming patients. In this work, we proposed two deep learning models to integrate and introduce the preventive sensible measures like face mask detection and image-based X-rays scanning for COVID-19 detection. Initially, face mask detection classifier is implemented using VGG19 which identifies those who did not wear a face mask in the whole crowd and obtained 99.26% accuracy with log loss score 0.04. Furthermore, COVID-19 detection technique is applied onto the X-ray images that used a Xception deep learning model which classifies whether such an individual is an ordinary patient or infected from COVID-19 and accomplished overall 91.83% accuracy with 0.00 log loss score.