Williams Kyei^*, Chunyong Yin, Kelvin Amos Nicodemas, Khagendra Darlami

Journal on Artificial Intelligence, Vol.8, pp. 19-38, 2026, DOI:10.32604/jai.2026.074988 - 20 January 2026

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need for rapid and accurate diagnostic tools to differentiate respiratory infections from normal cases using chest X-rays (CXRs). Manual interpretation of CXRs is time-consuming and prone to errors, particularly in distinguishing COVID-19 from viral pneumonia. This research addresses these challenges by proposing a customized EfficientNet-B0 model for ternary classification (COVID-19, Viral Pneumonia, Normal) on the COVID-19 Radiography Database. Employing transfer learning with architectural modifications, including a tailored classification head and regularization techniques, the model achieves superior performance. Evaluated via accuracy, F1-score (macro-averaged), AUROC (macro-averaged), precision (macro-averaged), recall (macro-averaged), inference… More >

Tao Zhou^1,3, Yujie Guo^1,3,*, Caiyue Peng^1,3, Yuxia Niu^1,3, Yunfeng Pan^1,3, Huiling Lu²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.3, pp. 4863-4882, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.050767 - 20 June 2024

Abstract Computer-aided diagnosis of pneumonia based on deep learning is a research hotspot. However, there are some problems that the features of different sizes and different directions are not sufficient when extracting the features in lung X-ray images. A pneumonia classification model based on multi-scale directional feature enhancement MSD-Net is proposed in this paper. The main innovations are as follows: Firstly, the Multi-scale Residual Feature Extraction Module (MRFEM) is designed to effectively extract multi-scale features. The MRFEM uses dilated convolutions with different expansion rates to increase the receptive field and extract multi-scale features effectively. Secondly, the… More >

Mehwish Shaikh¹, Isma Farah Siddiqui¹, Qasim Arain¹, Jahwan Koo^2,*, Mukhtiar Ali Unar³, Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi^4,*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.1, pp. 287-302, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.035311 - 20 January 2023

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… More >