Medical Image Classification for COVID-19 with Synthetic Data and Optimization
Analysis
Key Takeaways
- •Addresses the challenge of imbalanced data in medical image classification, particularly relevant to pandemics.
- •Proposes a method using a ProGAN to generate synthetic data to augment real data.
- •Employs a meta-heuristic optimization algorithm to optimize the classifier's hyperparameters.
- •Achieves high accuracy in classifying COVID-19 chest X-ray images, demonstrating the effectiveness of the approach.
“The proposed model achieves 95.5% and 98.5% accuracy for 4-class and 2-class imbalanced classification problems, respectively.”