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MDEV Model: A Novel Ensemble-Based Transfer Learning Approach for Pneumonia Classification Using CXR Images

Mehwish Shaikh1, Isma Farah Siddiqui1, Qasim Arain1, Jahwan Koo2,*, Mukhtiar Ali Unar3, Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi4,*

1 Department of Software Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan
2 College of Software, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea
3 Department of Computer Systems, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan
4 Department of Computer Education, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea

* Corresponding Authors: Jahwan Koo. Email: email; Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi. Email: email

Computer Systems Science and Engineering 2023, 46(1), 287-302. https://doi.org/10.32604/csse.2023.035311

Abstract

Pneumonia is a dangerous respiratory disease due to which breathing becomes incredibly difficult and painful; thus, catching it early is crucial. Medical physicians’ time is limited in outdoor situations due to many patients; therefore, automated systems can be a rescue. The input images from the X-ray equipment are also highly unpredictable due to variances in radiologists’ experience. Therefore, radiologists require an automated system that can swiftly and accurately detect pneumonic lungs from chest x-rays. In medical classifications, deep convolution neural networks are commonly used. This research aims to use deep pre-trained transfer learning models to accurately categorize CXR images into binary classes, i.e., Normal and Pneumonia. The MDEV is a proposed novel ensemble approach that concatenates four heterogeneous transfer learning models: MobileNet, DenseNet-201, EfficientNet-B0, and VGG-16, which have been finetuned and trained on 5,856 CXR images. The evaluation matrices used in this research to contrast different deep transfer learning architectures include precision, accuracy, recall, AUC-roc, and f1-score. The model effectively decreases training loss while increasing accuracy. The findings conclude that the proposed MDEV model outperformed cutting-edge deep transfer learning models and obtains an overall precision of 92.26%, an accuracy of 92.15%, a recall of 90.90%, an auc-roc score of 90.9%, and f-score of 91.49% with minimal data pre-processing, data augmentation, finetuning and hyperparameter adjustment in classifying Normal and Pneumonia chests.

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M. Shaikh, I. F. Siddiqui, Q. Arain, J. Koo, M. A. Unar et al., "Mdev model: a novel ensemble-based transfer learning approach for pneumonia classification using cxr images," Computer Systems Science and Engineering, vol. 46, no.1, pp. 287–302, 2023.



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