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Metaheuristic Optimization Through Deep Learning Classification of COVID-19 in Chest X-Ray Images

Nagwan Abdel Samee¹, El-Sayed M. El-Kenawy^2,3, Ghada Atteia^1,*, Mona M. Jamjoom⁴, Abdelhameed Ibrahim⁵, Abdelaziz A. Abdelhamid^6,7, Noha E. El-Attar⁸, Tarek Gaber^9,10, Adam Slowik¹¹, Mahmoud Y. Shams¹²

1 Department of Information Technology, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia
2 Department of Communications and Electronics, Delta Higher Institute of Engineering and Technology, Mansoura 35111, Egypt
3 Faculty of Artificial Intelligence, Delta University for Science and Technology, Mansoura 35712, Egypt
4 Department of Computer Sciences, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia
5 Computer Engineering and Control Systems Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, 35516, Mansoura, Egypt
6 Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Ain Shams University, 11566, Cairo, Egypt
7 Department of Computer Science, College of Computing and Information Technology, Shaqra University, 11961, Saudi Arabia
8 Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Benha University, Egypt
9 School of Science, Engineering, and Environment, University of Salford, UK
10 Faculty of Computers and Informatics, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, 41522, Egypt
11 Koszalin University of Technology, Poland
12 Faculty of Artificial Intelligence, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh, 33511, Egypt

* Corresponding Author: Ghada Atteia. Email: