Research Article

An Approach for Thoracic Syndrome Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks

Table 1

Brief summary of inspiration from the earlier research in the domain of disease identification.

S. No.Author and yearPaper titleTechnique usedObjective

1Bharati & Podder; [30]Disease Detection from Lung X-ray Images Based on Hybrid Deep Learning SubratoCNN, vanilla NNThe model proposed classification of chest diseases with its metrics as precision, recall, and -score
2Rajaraman et al. [31]Assessment of an Ensemble of Machine Learning Models towards Abnormality Detection in Chest RadiographsSequential CNNUsed weighted averaging to in base learners to classify the chest - rays
3Chan et al. [28]Effective Pneumothorax Detection for Chest X-Ray Images Using Local Binary Pattern and Support Vector MachineSupport vector machine and local binary patternThe paper proposed a methodology to detect the lung diseases using the local binary patterns and then further used the SVM technique to classify the type of disease
4Li et al. [32]Thoracic Disease Identification and Localization with Limited SupervisionCNNIdentification and localization of abnormalities in the X-rays
5Sharma et al. [33]An Analysis Of Convolutional Neural Networks For Image ClassificationCNNThe paper focusses on the analysis of real time images of three types of CNN’s; these are AlexNets, GoogLeNet, and ResNet50
6Yao et al. [34]Learning to diagnose from scratch by exploiting dependencies among labelsLSTMUsed long short-term memory networks for distinction between chest diseases
7Esteva et al. [35]Dermatologist-Level Classification of Skin Cancer with Deep Neural Networkst-SNE-based NNAnalyzed the internal features of the cells by using the CNN with the t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding
8Wang et al. [27]ChestX-ray8: Hospital-Scale Chest X-Ray Database and Benchmarks on Weakly-Supervised Classification and Localization of Common Thorax DiseasesCNNThe work focusses on how thoracic ailments can be discovered and explicitly located with the help of a combined softly supervised multilabelled image sorting and ailment localization framework; the same is verified with the dataset used in the paper