A Transfer Learning based Deep Learning Framework for Lung Disease Detection Utilizing CXR Images

The classification of various lung diseases with the help of chest X-ray images is one of the significant and challenging issues in medical imaging applications. This work proposes a transfer learning-based deep neural network architecture to classify lung diseases using a publicly available dataset. The proposed DenseNet201 model uses the interconnected structure to optimize feature transmission, minimize computation redundancy, and improve the gradient flow. The proposed model achieved a better classification accuracy of 98.34% compared to the other existing methods. These results show that DenseNet201 effectively learns discriminative features from the input medical image data. The proposed framework is suitable for large-scale implementation of lung disease classification. It helps develop more efficient computer-aided diagnostic systems, assisting clinicians in decision-making.