Deep Learning applications to detect pneumonia on chest X-ray: A systematic study

Abstract

Pneumonia is serious infection that affects the air sacs in our lungs of our body. Air sacs plays a vital role in the procedure of our breathing process. When the lungs are infected by bacterial or viral infection these air sacs will get filled with pus or fluid. As a result, this infection causes fever, cough and leads to a serious medical condition called pneumonia. The severity of this infection can range from mild to severe. It goes to a life-threatening situation in case of infants, young children and old aged people. The doctors use chest X-rays for the confirmation infection. Analyzing the chest x-rays for the detection of pneumonia infection by the doctors visually by naked eyes is time consuming process. Computer aided diagnosis helps the doctors for the faster and accurate detection of Pneumonia infection on chest X-rays. Computer aided diagnosis uses the CNN models for the confirmation of pneumonia which have achieved better performance than humanbeings