Deep learning based Diagnosis of diseases using Image
Classification
Ansh Saxena
Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, Amity School of
Engineering and Technology, Amity
University Noida.
New Delhi, India
ansh.saxena@student.amity.edu
Richa Gupta
Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, Amity School of
Engineering and Technology, Amity
University Noida.
New Delhi, India
rgupta6@amity.edu
Shiva Singh Tomar
Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, Amity School of
Engineering and Technology, Amity
University Noida.
New Delhi, India
shiva.tomar@student.amity.edu
Gaurav Jain
Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, Amity School of
Engineering and Technology, Amity
University Noida.
New Delhi, India
gaurav.jan9@student.amity.edu
Abstract— Any disease whether it is curable or not, it must
be diagnosed properly with some time in hand to take the
appropriate actions in time. As it is popularly said that early
detection of any disease is half cured. For detection of the
diseases like Pneumonia, Covid-19, Brain Tumor Radiography,
Computed Tomography are a technique popularly used
nowadays. The motivation towards the study of the topic was
that due to our country’s population density, the vulnerability
of getting infected and not being treated nicely was exposed
during the outbreak of Covid-19. The ratio of doctors in India is
nearly 1:1456 which means 1 doctor has approximately 1456
patients to deal with. That also results in a lot of time being
wasted on diagnosis, scheduling appointments, collection of
reports, etc. which could prove to be critical for a patient. To
reduce all the time being wasted, with the help of machine
learning we intend to learn if we can predict if the patient is
infected with a certain disease or not. How do we do that is by
using deep learning models and analyze on the basis of a few X-
Ray scan of the Chest to detect Pneumonia.
Keywords—Chest X-Ray Scans, Pneumonia, CNN-
Convolutional Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Transfer
Learining
I. INTRODUCTION
Any disease whether it is curable or not, it must be diagnosed
properly with some time in hand to take the appropriate
actions in time. As it is popularly said that early detection of
any disease is half cured. As we age our body’s natural
defenses subsided reliable and, as a result, seniors are more
vulnerable to infection – including pneumonia. this is often
an illness that seems to affect the elderly during a radically
different way than how it does to people in other age groups.
The age brings several health challenges but there are a
couple of health complications, which will be taken care of
by recognizing and identifying the first signs. one among
them is pneumonia. As we age our body’s natural defenses
subsided reliable and, as a result, seniors are more vulnerable
to infection – including pneumonia. this is often an illness
that seems to affect the elderly during a radically different
way than how it does to people in other age groups.
Pneumonia within the elderly is often life-threatening. There
are some symptoms like Cough, Fever as Most of the people
with this condition suffer from sudden fever, Shortness of
Breath because the air sacs within the lungs can fill with fluid
or pus if you have got this condition which also causes a
cough but also difficulty in breathing and a pain because the
infection within the lungs can cause pain in elders while
coughing and breathing. The pain is chronic and may be
extremely painful.
In today’s world, pneumonia is that the very leading
explanation for death in children and one among the highest
diseases with such mortality rates worldwide. It is a sort of a
lung infection that is caused due to the viruses, fungi, or
bacteria. The detection of pneumonia is usually administered
by examining chest X-Ray radiography by highly trained
specialists. the method is extremely tedious, first getting the
appointments from the highly trained doctors then their
availability causes delays in detection and their treatment.
Often, the method of detection also results in a disagreement
between radiologists. For detection of the diseases like
Pneumonia, Computed Tomography are a technique
popularly used nowadays. The CXRs which stand for chest
X-rays are very simple, economical because of which also the
most commonly used tool for diagnosing lung diseases.
When any experienced radiologist interprets an X-ray it is
diagnosed as either normal or perceive to have a disease like
carcinoma, tuberculosis, or pneumonia. one among the
foremost common chest diseases as pneumonia, a lung
infection caused by viruses, bacteria, or fungi. We have
observed that the computer-aided diagnosis systems have
shown the potential for improving diagnostic accuracy. We
also intend to perform experimental studies that further
demonstrate that this dataset is useful for Developing organ-
wise models to detect various types of diseases based on
Image Classification. Image and the part of the body given as
input and given to the classifier which in-turn gives it to the
model and it classifies the image as the detection of disease,
or it is a normal condition. Therefore, we suggest the use of
an automated analysis of chest CT images for the detection of
Pneumonia. It helps in reducing the critical time before
deciding the appropriate course of action. However, it does
not recommend the removal of confirmatory tests like Blood
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