Research Article

Deep Learning-Aided Automated Pneumonia Detection and Classification Using CXR Scans

Table 1

Current state of the art.

AuthorYearData sets/samplesSample collection location/sourceNetwork type/technique usedObjective of studyType of study/outcome of study

Mahmud et al. [22]2020Total of 5856 picturesGuangzhou Medical Center, China and Sylhet Medical College, BangladeshCNNTo utilize COVID-19 chest X-rays for efficiently extracting diversified features from varying dilation ratesDetection accuracy:
1583 normal X-rays, 1493 non-COVID, 2780 bacterial pneumonia97.4% for COVID-19/normal pneumonia
96.9% for COVID-19/viral pneumonia
94.7% for COVID-19/bacterial pneumonia

Gu et al. [23]2018JSRT, 241 images and Montgomery County, (MC, 138 images)Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, ChinaFCN and DCNNDeep learning in chest radiography for diagnosis of bacterial and viral childhood pneumoniaExperiments revealed that DCNN with transfer learning extracted features with greater accuracy (0.8048 ± 0.0202) and sensitivity (0.7755 ± 0.0296)
Li et al. [24]2020At six medical centers, 4,536 volumetric chest CT examinations (3D) were obtained from 3,506 individuals6 different hospitals in ChinaCOVID-19 detection neural network (COVNet)Distinguishing of COVID-19 from community-acquired pneumonia on chest CT using AIFor community-acquired pneumonia, the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.96 and 0.95, respectively
(From August 2016 and February 2020)

Rajpurkar et al. [25]2018420 images from 14 different pathologiesBethesda, Maryland, United StatesCheXNeXt algorithmTo diagnosis chest radiograph using deep learning methodThe 420 radiographs were labeled by radiologists in an average of 240 minutes, and the algorithm labeled them in 1.5 minutes

Chowdhury et al. [26]2020Total 423 images database (1485 pictures of viral pneumonia and 1579 pictures of normal chest X-rays)Italian Society of Medical and Interventional Radiology, ItalyCNNScreening of COVID-19 and pneumonia detection using AIThe networks were trained to distinguish between two types of pneumonia. For both methods, the classification accuracy, precision, sensitivity, and specificity were 99.7%, 99.7%, 99.7%, and 99.55% and 97.9%, 97.95%, 97.9%, and 98.8%, respectively

Liang and Zheng [27]2020Total 5856 chest X-ray images (training: 5232, testing: 624)Guangzhou Women and Children’s Medical Center, ChinaCNNPediatric pneumonia diagnosis using transfer learning technique with a deep residual networkOn a children’s pneumonia classification test, the method recall rate is 96.7%, and the F1 score is 92.7%

Ho and Gwak [28]2019Total of 112,120 X-ray images (70% training,ILSVRC2014 datasetCNN/DenseNet-121 modelCNN-based classification of thoracic disease in chest radiographyIn compared to current reference baselines, techniques efficiently used interdependencies among target annotations to produce state-of-the-art classification results of 14 diseases
10% validation, and 20% testing)

Roy et al. [29]2020There are 58,924 frames in 277 lung ultrasound recordings from 35 individualsItalian COVID-19 lung ultrasoundCNNDiagnosis of lung diseases in COVID-19 pandemic using deep learningA novel deep network based on spatial transformer networks that predicts the illness severity with weakly supervised artefact localization
Database (ICLUS-DB), Italy