Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faculty Publications Article Faculty Publications -Articles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Singh, Kuljeet; Gupta, Surbhi; Mohan, Neeraj; Shastri, Sourabh; Kumar, Sachin; Mansotra, Vibhakar; Sinha, Anurag; Khalid, Saifullah Title A name given to the resource Effective detection of Covid-19 using Xception net architecture: A technical investigation using X-ray images Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01-01-2025 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Health Informatics Journal;Volume;31;Issue;3;Article No.;1.46045822513635e+16; Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/14604582251363519" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.1177/14604582251363519</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105012649351?origin=resultslist" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105012649351?origin=resultslist</a> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Singh K., Department of Computer Science, School of Sciences, Christ University, Delhi-NCR, India; Gupta S., Department of Electrical Engineering &amp; IT, Punjab Agricultural University, Punjab, India; Mohan N., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IK Gujral Punjab Technical University, Mohali, India; Shastri S., Department of Computer Science &amp; IT, University of Jammu, Jammu &amp; Kashmir, India; Kumar S., Department of Computer Science &amp; IT, University of Jammu, Jammu &amp; Kashmir, India; Mansotra V., Department of Computer Science &amp; IT, University of Jammu, Jammu &amp; Kashmir, India; Sinha A., Tech School, Computer Science Department, ICFAI University, Ranchi, India; Khalid S., Principal Scientist, IBM Multi Activities Co Ltd, Khartaum, Sudan Description An account of the resource The disastrous era of COVID-19 has altered the perspectives of nearly all nations concerning the health and education sectors. Artificial intelligence is a pressing need that needs to be implemented thoroughly in the medical and educational fields. Imperatively, the diagnosis of Covid-19 has become crucial. In this study, we have designed a classification model based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and transfer learning. The COVID-19 chest X-ray images have been considered for the proposed methodology and are classified as COVID-19 positive and normal cases. The proposed shallow CNN Model achieved an accuracy of 96%, which is computationally very effective as only three Convolutional blocks are required. Then, the Xception architecture-based model is experimented with. The accuracy and loss of the proposed model have been evaluated using Adam and SGD optimizer. With the Adam Optimizer, Xception Net achieved the best classification accuracy of 99.94%. The precision, recall, and f1-score of 100% are achieved. The proposed model has outperformed the previous studies in the same domain, which highlights the models state-of-the-art performance. Our study will be helpful for decision-makers and can help further minimize mortality and morbidity by effectively diagnosing the disease. The Author(s) 2025. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). Subject The topic of the resource classification; covid-19; deep transfer-learning; shallow network; xception-net Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available SAGE Publications Ltd Relation A related resource ISSN: 14604582; CODEN: HIJEA Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Article Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Open Access; Gold Open Access; Green Open Access Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource online