Optimizing Pneumonia Detection: A Convolutional Neural Network Approach Using Chest X-Rays

Authors

  • Keerthana S Student
  • Dr. Sarwath Unnisa Department of Computer Science Mount Carmel College, Autonomous Bangalore, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.59461/ijitra.v4i4.169

Keywords:

Pneumonia, Pneumonia detection, CNN, Deep learning, Chest X-ray classification, Medical image analysis

Abstract

Pneumonia may be a genuine respiratory sickness contaminating millions including with incredible dreariness, especially among children, the elderly, and immunocompromised patients. The early recognizable proof is fundamental for ideal treatment and understanding results, but routine strategies of conclusion, counting clinical appraisal, and radiographic elucidation, are by and large subjective and subject to inter-observer variety. Within the past few years, profound learning models, and more particularly, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), have been utilized as compelling rebellious for computerized therapeutic picture preparation. The current paper explores a CNN-based strategy to recognize pneumonia and typical chest X-ray pictures from the Covid-19-Pneumonia-Normal Chest X-ray pictures dataset. The demonstration is strongly prepared through advanced information preprocessing strategies, and hyperparameter alteration, to guarantee precision and dodge wrong predictions. Our results come about appear to be a tall classification and AI-based models and could be a potential device for viable clinical use.

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Published

2025-12-25

How to Cite

S, K., & Unnisa, S. (2025). Optimizing Pneumonia Detection: A Convolutional Neural Network Approach Using Chest X-Rays. International Journal of Information Technology, Research and Applications, 4(4), 09–17. https://doi.org/10.59461/ijitra.v4i4.169

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