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A Novel Explainable CNN Model for Screening COVID-19 on X-ray Images

Hicham Moujahid¹, Bouchaib Cherradi^1,2,*, Oussama El Gannour¹, Wamda Nagmeldin³, Abdelzahir Abdelmaboud⁴, Mohammed Al-Sarem^5,6, Lhoussain Bahatti¹, Faisal Saeed⁷, Mohammed Hadwan^8,9

1 EEIS Laboratory, ENSET of Mohammedia, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Mohammedia, 28820, Morocco
2 STIE Team, CRMEF Casablanca-Settat, The Provincial Section of El Jadida, El Jadida, 24000, Morocco
3 Department of Information Systems, College of Computer Engineering and Sciences, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj, 11942, Saudi Arabia
4 Department of Information Systems, King Khalid University, Muhayel Aseer, 61913, Saudi Arabia
5 College of Computer Science and Engineering, Taibah University, Medina, 42353, Saudi Arabia
6 Department of Computer Science, University of Sheba Region, Marib, 14400, Yemen
7 DAAI Research Group, Department of Computing and Data Science, School of Computing and Digital Technology, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, B4 7XG, UK
8 Department of Information Technology, College of Computer, Qassim University, Buraydah 51452, Saudi Arabia
9 Department of Computer Science, College of Applied Sciences, Taiz University, Taiz, 6803, Yemen

* Corresponding Author: Bouchaib Cherradi. Email: