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Pneumonia Radiograph Diagnosis Utilizing Deep Learning Network, Wesley O'Quinn
Pneumonia Radiograph Diagnosis Utilizing Deep Learning Network, Wesley O'Quinn
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Pneumonia is a life-threatening respiratory disease caused by bacterial infection. The goal of this study is to develop an algorithm using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to detect visual signals for pneumonia in medical images and make a diagnosis. Although Pneumonia is prevalent, detection and diagnosis are challenging. The deep learning network AlexNet was utilized through transfer learning. A dataset consisting of 11,318 images was used for training, and a preliminary diagnosis accuracy of 72% was achieved.