Detecting Pneumonia's Pathogens from Chest X-Ray Images Using Deep Learning

Pneumonia is a lung infection that is a serious health issue, especially for children under 5 and adult over 65. It causes inflammation in the air sacs where gas exchange occurs. To minimize the mortality rate, especially in remote areas, the detection of pneumonia is very important. By using deep learning AI models, analyzing and predicting pneumonia through chest X-rays can be done quickly and accurately without the need for radiologists. Pneumonia is a silent killer, as even health professionals themselves have been known to miss the signs in their own bodies because its symptoms resemble those of a common cold or flu.Among all image processing models, YOLO performs very fast in real-time object detection in X-ray images. This study also aims to predict pneumonia's causative pathogens and its stages using our dataset.