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However, for privacy reasons, large databases of these images are not publicly available, making it difficult to obtain very accurate AI Deep Learning models. To address this shortcoming, transfer learning (pre-trained) models are used. The current study aims to provide a thorough comparison of known AI Deep Transfer Learning models for classifying lung radiographs into COVID-19, non COVID pneumonia and normal (healthy). The VGG-19, Inception-ResNet, EfficientNet-B0, ResNet-50, Xception and Inception models were trained and tested on 3568 radiographs. The performance of the models was evaluated using accuracy, sensitivity, precision and F1 score. 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