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Item Detecting COVID-19 Infection Using Customized Convolutional Neural Network(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024) Kumar, S.; Kisku, B.; Vardhan K, S.H.; Kumar, S.; Bhowmik, B.The COVID-19 pandemic has affected 775 million people globally, with an estimated death toll of 7 million. Detection methods like reverse transcription polymer chain reaction (RT-PCR) face multiple challenges, including false positive cases, time-consuming, and high cost. A rapid, precise, affordable screening alternative is essential to expedite COVID-19 detection. Various efforts have focused on expediting COVID-19 detection due to the high costs and logistical challenges associated with traditional methods. This paper proposes a customized deep-learning framework architecture for automatically identifying COVID-19 infection in chest X-ray (CXR) images. Multiple neural networks extract deep features from the CXR images, including popular models such as VGG19, DenseNet201, EfficientNet, MobileNetV2, and InceptionV3. The proposed model undergoes training and testing using the QaTa-COVID-19 dataset. The proposed model achieves classification accuracy of 97.06%, with precision, recall, and F1 score rates for COVID-19 cases recorded at 97.34%, 96.36%, and 97.01%, respectively, for the 4-class cases (COVID vs. Normal vs. Pediatric Bacterial Pneumonia vs. Pediatric Viral Pneumonia). © 2024 IEEE.Item Automated Segmentation of COVID-19 Infected Lungs via Modified U-Net Model(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024) Kumar, S.; Bhowmik, B.The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant outbreaks in more than 220 countries worldwide, profoundly impacting the public health and lives. As of February 2024, over 774 million cases have been reported, with more than 7,035,337 deaths recorded. Therefore, there is a significant need for automated image segmentation to serve as clinical decision support. This paper presents a novel automated segmentation framework that dynamically generates distinct and randomized image patches for training using preprocessing techniques and extensive data augmentation. The proposed architecture employs a semantic segmentation approach, ensuring accuracy despite limited data availability. Experimental assessment comprises a visual inspection of the predicted segmentation outcomes. Quantitative evaluation of segmentation includes standards performance metrics such as precision, recall, Dice score, and Intersection over Union (IoU). The results exhibit a remarkable Dice coefficient score of 98.3% and an IoU rate surpassing 96.8%, demonstrating the model's robustness in identifying COVID-19-infected lung regions. © 2024 IEEE.Item ADConv-Net: Advanced Deep Convolution Neural Network for COVID-19 Diagnostics Using Chest X-Ray and CT Images(Springer, 2025) Kumar, S.; Bhowmik, B.The worldwide COVID-19 epidemic has emerged as a significant concern, affecting daily lives and underscoring the importance of early diagnosis for effective treatment in medical and healthcare settings. Current diagnostic testing for COVID-19 is sluggish, typically requiring hours to get results. Detection of COVID-19 from medical imaging presents a challenging task that has gained substantial interest from experts worldwide. Essential imaging modalities for diagnosing COVID-19 include chest X-rays and computed tomography (CT) scans. By contrast, most of the chest radiography can be completed in within fifteen minutes. Thus, employing chest radiography gives a possibility for early and reliable diagnosis of COVID-19, intending to relieve therapeutic obstacles for patients and speed up the diagnostic process. Recently, deep learning (DL) techniques have been shown to be effective in image-based diagnostics. This paper proposed an advanced deep convolution neural network (ADConv-Net) for COVID-19 detection and categorization using chest X-ray and CT images. The proposed technique is not only capable of recognizing critical connections and similarities in image classification, but also leads to improved diagnostic accuracy. The proposed model undergoes thorough evaluation for standard performance metrics. After evaluation, the ADConv-Net model achieves high accuracies of 98.84% and 97.25% in training and testing for X-ray images and 99.41% and 98.87% in training and testing for CT images, respectively. Additionally, the proposed model demonstrates strong performance, with AUC values of 0.993 and 0.996 for X-ray and CT images, respectively. Further, the model also introduces a heatmap approach for displaying COVID-19 disease areas. Subsequently, radiologists can find COVID-19 disorders in chest X-ray and CT images with this approach. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2025.Item EffiCOVID-net: A highly efficient convolutional neural network for COVID-19 diagnosis using chest X-ray imaging(Academic Press Inc., 2025) Kumar, S.; Bhowmik, B.The global COVID-19 pandemic has drastically affected daily life, emphasizing the urgent need for early and accurate detection to provide adequate medical treatment, especially with limited antiviral options. Chest X-ray imaging has proven crucial for distinguishing COVID-19 from other respiratory conditions, providing an essential diagnostic tool. Deep learning (DL)-based models have proven highly effective in image diagnostics in recent years. Many of these models are computationally intensive and prone to overfitting, especially when trained on limited datasets. Additionally, conventional models often fail to capture multi-scale features, reducing diagnostic accuracy. This paper proposed a highly efficient convolutional neural network (CNN) called EffiCOVID-Net, incorporating diverse feature learning units. The proposed model consists of a bunch of EffiCOVID blocks that incorporate several layers of convolution containing (3×3) filters and recurrent connections to extract complex features while preserving spatial integrity. The performance of EffiCOVID-Net is rigorously evaluated using standard performance metrics on two publicly available COVID-19 chest X-ray datasets. Experimental results demonstrate that EffiCOVID-Net outperforms existing models, achieving 98.68% accuracy on the COVID-19 radiography dataset (D1), 98.55% on the curated chest X-ray dataset (D2), and 98.87% on the mixed dataset (DMix) in multi-class classification (COVID-19 vs. Normal vs. Pneumonia). For binary classification (COVID-19 vs. Normal), the model attains 99.06%, 99.78%, and 99.07% accuracy, respectively. Integrating Grad-CAM-based visualizations further enhances interpretability by highlighting critical regions influencing model predictions. EffiCOVID-Net's lightweight architecture ensures low computational overhead, making it suitable for deployment in resource-constrained clinical settings. A comparative analysis with existing methods highlights its superior accuracy, efficiency, and robustness performance. However, while the model enhances diagnostic workflows, it is best utilized as an assistive tool rather than a standalone diagnostic method. © 2025 Elsevier Inc.