PNEUMONIA DETECTION IN CHEST X-RAY IMAGES USING A CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK

Kasyuk S., Didenko G., Stepanova O.

The article considers a modern technology of X-ray diagnostics based on the use of a convolutional neural network. A publicly available pneumonia X-ray dataset, provided by Kermany et al., for image-based deep learning is described. A configuration of convolutional neural network built on the GoogLeNet architecture is outlined. The Python program implementing neural network's learning process, calculation of evaluation metrics and pneumonia detection is described. The process of training the convolutional neural network is outlined. The comparison of the obtained evaluation metrics of the binary classifier and results of published international researches is given.

Keywords:X-ray diagnostics, data classification, deep learning, convolutional neural network, Python programming