Detection of TB from Chest X-ray: A Study with EfficientNet

The lung is one of the prime organs, and any disease in the lung causes mild to severe breathing problems; untreated lung disease will lead to several complications. Tuberculosis (TB) is a lung ailment that needs premature recognition and handling. The primary objective is to employ the deep-learning (DL) based TB detection using chest
$X$
-rays. Various stages of the proposed scheme consist of (i) data collection and resizing, (ii) DL-supported feature extraction, (iii) binary classification and five-fold cross-validation, and (iv) comparison with earlier results and confirming the merit of the scheme. This research implements EfficientNet (EN) variants to classify the chosen
$\mathrm{X}$
-rays into healthy/TB classes using the SoftMax classifier. The proposed scheme with EN_B2 (ENB2) has been successful in providing an accuracy of
$96{\% }$
as far as detection accuracy is considered when compared to other methods. The superiority of the suggested strategy is also confirmed by an analysis using the most recent technology, which confirms the worth of the proposed system on the chosen
$\mathrm{X}$
-ray imagery.