Diagnosing covid-19 lung inflammation using machine learning algorithms: A comparative study

In this paper, we performed a comparative analysis using machine learning algorithms named support vector machine (SVM), decision tree (DT), k-nearest neighbor (kNN), and convolution neural network (CNN) to classify pneumonia level (mild, progressive, and severe stage) of the COVID-19 confirmed patients. More precisely, the proposed model consists of two phases: first, the model computes the volume and density of lesions and opacities of the CT images using morphological approaches. In the second phase, we use machine learning algorithms to classify the pneumonia level of the confirmed COVID-19 patient. Extensive experiments have been carried out and the results show the accuracy of 91.304%, 91.4%, 87.5%, 95.622% for kNN, SVM, DT, and CNN, respectively. © Springer International Publishing AG 2018.