JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING RESEARCH, cilt.11, sa.2B, ss.15-26, 2023 (SCI-Expanded)
Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has recently emerged as
a serious public health threat, spreading rapidly worldwide and threatening
millions of lives. With an increasing number of cases and mutations, medical resources
are being drained daily owing to the rapid transmission of the disease, and the
health systems of many countries are negatively affected. Therefore, it is
important to use the available resources appropriately and in a timely manner
to detect and treat the disease. In this study, VGG16 and ResNet50 deep
learning models were used to quickly evaluate x-ray images and perform a
prediagnosis of Covid-19, and an alternative model (IsVoNet) was proposed.
Following model training, success accuracies of 99.92%, 99.65%, and 99.76% were
achieved in the VGG16 model, ResNet50 model, and proposed model, respectively.
According to the results, the models classified the Covid-19 and normal lung
x-ray images with high accuracy, and the proposed model showed a high success
rate at a lower time complexity than the other models.