A Deep Learning Review of ResNet Architecture for Lung Disease Identification in CXR Image

Abstract

The lungs are two of the most crucial organs in the human body because they are connected to the respiratory and circulatory systems. Lung cancer, COVID-19, pneumonia, and other severe diseases are just a few of the many threats. The patient is subjected to an X-ray examination to evaluate the health of their lungs. A radiologist must interpret the X-ray results. The rapid advancement of technology today can help people in many different ways. One use of deep learning in the health industry is in the detection of diseases, which can decrease the amount of money, time, and energy needed while increasing effectiveness and efficiency. There are other methods that can be used, but in this research, the convolutional neural network (CNN) method is only used with three architectures, namely ResNet-50, ResNet-101, and ResNet-152, to aid radiologists in identifying lung diseases in patients. The 21,885 images that make up the dataset for this study are split into four groups: COVID-19, pneumonia, lung opacity, and normal. The three algorithms have fairly high evaluation scores per the experiment results. F1 scores of 91%, 93%, and 94% are assigned to the ResNet-50, ResNet-101, and ResNet-152 architectures, respectively. Therefore, it is advised to use the ResNet-152 architecture, which has better performance values than the other two designs in this study, to categorize lung diseases experienced by patients.