Lung Disease Classification using Deep Convolutional Neural Network

The advanced technologies are essential to achieving the improvement of medicine. More specifically, an extensive investigation in a partnership among researchers, health care providers, and patients is integral to bringing precise and customized treatment strategies in taking care of various diseases. This paper aims to assess the degree of accuracy acceptable in the medical field by utilizing deep learning to publicly available data. First, we extracted spectrogram features and labels of the annotated lung sound samples and used them as an input to our 2D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model. Secondly, we normalized the lung sounds to remove the peak values and noise from them. For deep learning classification, publicly available data was not sufficient to conduct the learning process. Finally, we have created a deep learning model called Lung Disease Classification (LDC), combined with advanced data normalization and data augmentation techniques, for high-performance classification in lung disease diagnosis. The final accuracy obtained after the normalization and augmentation was approximately 97%. The proposed model paves the way for adequate assessment of the degree of accuracy acceptable in the medical field and guarantees better performance than other previously reported approaches.