Exploring the Relation between Blood Tests and Covid-19 Using Machine Learning

Abstract

COVID-19 is a global pandemic that hit the world in 2019-2020 and caused massive losses. Every day, hundreds of thousands of tests are being done on possible infected cases. It usually takes several hours to get the results of virus test in advanced countries, whereas in other countries might take days. The aim of this study is to investigate whether normal blood medical tests help in detecting covid-19 using various machine learning approaches. If true, this would give an indication to people who should undergo the virus test. In this paper we independently use machine learning algorithms including support vector machines, adaptive boosting, random forest and k-nearest neighbors. These algorithms are then merged to form ensemble learning which leads to the classification. The results show that the ensemble learning is having the highest true positive rate of 30%. The obtained results show that normal blood tests do not help much in giving right indications about detecting COVID-19.