COVID-19 chest X-ray image analysis by threshold-based segmentation.

COVID-19 is a severe acute respiratory syndrome that has caused a major ongoing pandemic worldwide. Imaging systems such as conventional chest X-ray (CXR) and computed tomography (CT) were proven essential for patients due to the lack of information about the complications that could result from this disease. In this study, the aim was to develop and evaluate a method for automatic diagnosis of COVID-19 using binary segmentation of chest X-ray images.