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Pediatric pneumonia remains a significant global threat, posing a larger mortality risk than any other communicable disease. According to UNICEF, it is a leading cause of mortality in children under five and requires prompt diagnosis. Early…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Chandravardhan Singh Raghaw , Parth Shirish Bhore , Mohammad Zia Ur Rehman , Nagendra Kumar

Convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) are the actual standard for image recognizement and classification. On the present work we develop a Computer Aided-Diagnosis (CAD) system using ConvNets to classify a x-rays chest images dataset in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Vinicius Pavanelli Vianna

Pulmonary pathologies are a significant global health concern, often leading to fatal outcomes if not diagnosed and treated promptly. Chest radiography serves as a primary diagnostic tool, but the availability of experienced radiologists…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Abdelbaki Souid , Mohamed Hamroun , Soufiene Ben Othman , Hedi Sakli , Naceur Abdelkarim

Manual identification and classification of pneumonia and COVID-19 infection is a cumbersome process that, if delayed can cause irreversible damage to the patient. We have compiled CT scan images from various sources, namely, from the China…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-22 Amit Karanth Gurpur , Janani S , Ajeetha B , Brintha Therese A , Rajeswaran Rangasami

Localization and characterization of diseases like pneumonia are primary steps in a clinical pipeline, facilitating detailed clinical diagnosis and subsequent treatment planning. Additionally, such location annotated datasets can provide a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Riddhish Bhalodia , Ali Hatamizadeh , Leo Tam , Ziyue Xu , Xiaosong Wang , Evrim Turkbey , Daguang Xu

Pneumonia Diagnosis, though it is crucial for an effective treatment, it can be hampered by uncertainty. This uncertainty starts to arise due to some factors like atypical presentations, limitations of diagnostic tools such as chest X-rays,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Kennard Norbert Sudiardjo , Islam Nur Alam , Wilson Wijaya , Lili Ayu Wulandhari

Chest radiographs are primarily employed for the screening of pulmonary and cardio-/thoracic conditions. Being undertaken at primary healthcare centers, they require the presence of an on-premise reporting Radiologist, which is a challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Arka Mitra , Arunava Chakravarty , Nirmalya Ghosh , Tandra Sarkar , Ramanathan Sethuraman , Debdoot Sheet

Around 450 million people are affected by pneumonia every year which results in 2.5 million deaths. Covid-19 has also affected 181 million people which has lead to 3.92 million casualties. The chances of death in both of these diseases can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Aakash Shah , Manan Shah

Chest X-ray imaging remains the primary diagnostic tool for pulmonary and cardiac disorders worldwide, yet its accuracy is hampered by radiologist shortages and inter-observer variability. This study presents a systematic comparative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Ali M. Bahram , Saman Muhammad Omer , Hardi M. Mohammed

As advancements in technology and medicine are being made, many countries are still unable to access quality medical care due to cost and lack of qualified medical personnel. This discrepancy in healthcare has caused many preventable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-12 Kyler Larsen

X-Ray image enhancement, along with many other medical image processing applications, requires the segmentation of images into bone, soft tissue, and open beam regions. We apply a machine learning approach to this problem, presenting an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Joseph Bullock , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Arnau Quera-Bofarull

One of the primary clinical observations for screening the infectious by the novel coronavirus is capturing a chest x-ray image. In most of the patients, a chest x-ray contains abnormalities, such as consolidation, which are the results of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-30 Arman Haghanifar , Mahdiyar Molahasani Majdabadi , Younhee Choi , S. Deivalakshmi , Seokbum Ko

A combination of traditional image processing methods with advanced neural networks concretes a predictive and preventive healthcare paradigm. This study offers rapid, accurate, and non-invasive diagnostic solutions that can significantly…

Biomedical images are increasing drastically. Along the way, many machine learning algorithms have been proposed to predict and identify various kinds of diseases. One such disease is Pneumonia which is an infection caused by both bacteria…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-20 Sheikh Md Hanif Hossain , S M Raju , Amelia Ritahani Ismail

Early results in using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on x-rays to diagnose disease have been promising, but it has not yet been shown that models trained on x-rays from one hospital or one group of hospitals will work equally well at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 John R. Zech , Marcus A. Badgeley , Manway Liu , Anthony B. Costa , Joseph J. Titano , Eric K. Oermann

People all over the globe are affected by pneumonia but deaths due to it are highest in Sub-Saharan Asia and South Asia. In recent years, the overall incidence and mortality rate of pneumonia regardless of the utilization of effective…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-23 Wardah Ali , Eesha Qureshi , Omama Ahmed Farooqi , Rizwan Ahmed Khan

Early detection of lung cancer is critical to improving survival outcomes. We present a deep learning framework for automated lung cancer screening from chest computed tomography (CT) images with integrated explainability. Using the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Nishan Rai , Sujan Khatri , Devendra Risal

Accurate and rapid detection of COVID-19 pneumonia is crucial for optimal patient treatment. Chest X-Ray (CXR) is the first line imaging test for COVID-19 pneumonia diagnosis as it is fast, cheap and easily accessible. Inspired by the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Xin Zhang , Liangxiu Han , Tam Sobeih , Lianghao Han , Nina Dempsey , Symeon Lechareas , Ascanio Tridente , Haoming Chen , Stephen White

In the research, we developed a computer vision solution to support diagnostic radiology in differentiating between COVID-19 pneumonia, influenza virus pneumonia, and normal biomarkers. The chest radiograph appearance of COVID-19 pneumonia…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-15 Julianna Antonchuk , Benjamin Prescott , Philip Melanchthon , Robin Singh

In this study, we evaluate the ability of OpenAI's gpt-4o model to classify chest X-ray images as either NORMAL or PNEUMONIA in a zero-shot setting, without any prior fine-tuning. A balanced test set of 400 images (200 from each class) was…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Pragna Prahallad , Pranathi Prahallad