Symptom-Based Detection of COVID‑19 Cases Using Machine Learning Algorithms

 

 

 

Hussein Ibrahim Hussein1,2,*, Lateef Abd Zaid Qudr1, Weal Hasan Ali Almohammed3

 

1Department of computer engineering techniques, Alsafwa university college, Almamalie str Karbala, Iraq

 

2Department of Information Security, college of information technology, University of Babylon, Hillah, Iraq

 

3Department of Computer Science, College of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Kerbala, Karbala, Iraq

 

 

Abstract

Mammals are susceptible to the lethal disease called coronavirus. This virus often infects humans through the aerial precipitation of any fluid released from the bodily part of the affected entity. This viral variant is deadlier than other sudden viruses. Given the ongoing thread which COVID-19 on health systems in the worldwide, there is a rising interest in development a mechanism that effective in terms of cost and classification. A mechanism for categorizing and scrutinizing the estimations derived from this virus' symptoms is proposed in this paper. The precision of various machine-learning classifiers is calculated in this study in order to determine the optimal classifier for COVID-19 identification. Because the COVID-19 dataset has the greatest precision of 100%, it was classified using AdaBoost and Bagging. Additionally, precision, recall, and F-score measures together with the ROC were deployed for evaluating detection performance to ensure the approach is capable and successful.

Emails: Hussein.sarhan@alsafwa.edu.iq; latifkhder@alsafwa.edu.iq; wael.h@uokerbala.edu.iq

 

 

Received: March 01, 2025 Revised: May 23, 2025 Accepted: July 02, 2025

 

Keywords: Covid-19; Detection; Bagging; AdaBoost; Machine Learning