Pneumonia Detection from Radiography Images using Convolutional Neural Networks

Pneumonia continues to be the leading cause of child mortality in children under the age of five, and 2,400 children, most of whom are babies under 2 years of age, die from pneumonia. In this study, an automated detection system is proposed for the diagnosis of pneumonia with chest radiography images. With the transfer learning technique, ResNet-152 convolutional neural network was customized to recognize pneumonia from radiography images. With this customized architecture, a recognition success of 97.4% was obtained in the detection of pneumonia disease without any preprocessing of raw data or manual feature extraction on radiography images. This model, which was proposed for the detection of pneumonia, found to be more successful when compared with the other successful studies in the literature.