A Novel Transfer Learning Based Approach for Pneumonia Detection in Chest X-ray Images

Pneumonia is among the top diseases which cause most of the deaths all over the world. Virus, bacteria and fungi can all cause pneumonia. However, it is difficult to judge the pneumonia just by looking at chest X-rays. The aim of this study is to simplify the pneumonia detection process for experts...

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Veröffentlicht in:Applied sciences 2020-01, Vol.10 (2), p.559, Article 559
Hauptverfasser: Chouhan, Vikash, Singh, Sanjay Kumar, Khamparia, Aditya, Gupta, Deepak, Tiwari, Prayag, Moreira, Catarina, Damasevicius, Robertas, de Albuquerque, Victor Hugo C.
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Zusammenfassung:Pneumonia is among the top diseases which cause most of the deaths all over the world. Virus, bacteria and fungi can all cause pneumonia. However, it is difficult to judge the pneumonia just by looking at chest X-rays. The aim of this study is to simplify the pneumonia detection process for experts as well as for novices. We suggest a novel deep learning framework for the detection of pneumonia using the concept of transfer learning. In this approach, features from images are extracted using different neural network models pretrained on ImageNet, which then are fed into a classifier for prediction. We prepared five different models and analyzed their performance. Thereafter, we proposed an ensemble model that combines outputs from all pretrained models, which outperformed individual models, reaching the state-of-the-art performance in pneumonia recognition. Our ensemble model reached an accuracy of 96.4% with a recall of 99.62% on unseen data from the Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center dataset.
ISSN:2076-3417
2076-3417
DOI:10.3390/app10020559