BCovX: Blockchain-based COVID Diagnosis Scheme using Chest X-Ray for Isolated Location

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The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected the lives of millions of people worldwide. With an alarming increase in COVID-19 cases, it is important to detect and diagnose COVID-19 in its early stages to prevent its spread. To diagnose remote patients, the Internet can be useful for accessing data of that patient. But, the Internet has also had issues related to data security, reliability, and privacy. Motivated by these challenges, in this paper, we propose a Blockchain (BC) based COVID-19 detection scheme (BCovX) for fast and reliable diagnosis of COVID-19 using chest X-Ray (CXR) images. For fast and accurate detection of COVID-19 using CXR, BCovX consists of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model, using which a patient can be diagnosed for COVID-19 remotely. CNNs have performed successfully in medical imaging classification. BCovX provides reliable and secure data access and exchange using BC and smart contracts (SC). To solve issues related to data storage and its associated cost, the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) protocol is used to store medical data. We also present a real-time SC developed in Solidity to govern the transaction between the patient and the doctor. The SC has been compiled and deployed on Remix Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Finally, we have evaluated the performance of BCovX with traditional schemes in terms of storage cost, bandwidth requirements, and accuracy of the CNN model.

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Shukla, A., Ramdasani, U., Vinzuda, G., Obaidat, M. S., Tanwar, S., & Kumar, N. (2021). BCovX: Blockchain-based COVID Diagnosis Scheme using Chest X-Ray for Isolated Location. In IEEE International Conference on Communications. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC42927.2021.9500499

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