Abstract
With the coronavirus epidemic (Covid-19) affecting the whole world, urgent but accurate and fast diagnostic methods have been needed for viral diseases such as Covid-19. With the emergence of Covid-19, lung tomography and X-Ray images have been begun to be used by medical doctors to detect Covid-19. It is known that traditional and modern machine learning approaches using X-Ray and tomography images are used for disease diagnosis. In this respect, applications based on artificial intelligence contribute to the sector by showing similar or even better performances to field experts. In this study, for disease diagnosis by using X-Ray lung images, a hybrid support vector machines (SVM) classification model based on the combination of deep and traditional tissue analysis features is proposed. The dataset has been used consists of lung images of healthy, Covid-19, viral pneumonia and lung opacity patients. Hybrid features obtained from X-Ray images have been obtained by using Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) and DenseNet-201 deep neural network. The performance of hybrid features has been compared to GLCM features as a traditional approach. Both attributes have been trained with SVM. An average of 99.2% accuracy has been achieved in classification success. Other performance measures which have been obtained show that hybrid features are more successful than the traditional method. The proposed artificial intelligence-based method for the diagnosis of Covid-19 has been shown to be promising.