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Two-Stage Deep Learning Architecture For Pneumonia Detection And Its Diagnosis In Chest Radiographs, Barath Narayanan, Venkata Salini Priyamvada Davuluru, Russell C. Hardie

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Approximately two million pediatric deaths occur every year due to Pneumonia. Detection and diagnosis of Pneumonia plays an important role in reducing these deaths. Chest radiography is one of the most commonly used modalities to detect pneumonia. In this paper, we propose a novel two-stage deep learning architecture to detect pneumonia and classify its type in chest radiographs. This architecture contains one network to classify images as either normal or pneumonic, and another deep learning network to classify the type as either bacterial or viral. In this paper, we study and compare the performance of various stage one networks such …