Diagnosis of Acute Respiratory Syndromes from X-Rays using Customised CNN Architecture

This work presents the diagnosis of various acute respiratory syndromes using customized CNN architecture from X-ray images. Complications of viral pneumonia results in influenza and COVID-19. The respiratory syndromes occur due to bacterial and fungal infections as well. Hence, the objective was to use customized CNN architecture to perform a multi-class pneumonia classification. VGG16 architecture is carefully trained for pneumonia classification with ReLU activation and categorical cross-entropy loss function. The proposed model is efficient and robust and yielded 97.87% accuracy on the train set and 90% accuracy on the test set. The experimental results suggest that the model efficiently detects all sorts of lung diseases, including COVID 19.