A Deep Transfer Learning Framework for Pneumonia Detection from Chest X-ray Images

Abstract

Pneumonia occurs when the lungs are infected by a bacterial, viral, or fungal infection. Globally, it is the largest solo infectious disease causing child mortality. Early diagnosis and treatment of this disease are critical to avoid death, especially in infants. Traditionally, pneumonia diagnosis was performed by expert radiologists and/or doctors by analysing X-ray images of the chest. Automated diagnostic methods have been developed in recent years as an alternative to expert diagnosis. Deep learning-based image processing has been shown to be effective in automated diagnosis of pneumonia. However, deep leaning typically requires a large number of labelled samples for training, which is t..