Thorax Disease Classification Based on the Convolutional Network SqueezeNet

Chest radiography allows a detailed inspection of a patient’s thorax via an imaging modality, but requires specialized training for proper interpretation. With the advent of high performance general purpose image analysis and computer vision algorithms, the accurate automated analysis of chest radiographs is becoming increasingly of interest to researchers. In this paper, we propose a classification algorithm distinguishing between chest radiographs performed on people with or without lung disease. The dataset used as the input to the SqueezeNet neural network is Chest X-ray. The only pre-processing phase applied to the dataset is the resize to 224x224 and the conversion to grayscale. The accuracy percentage obtained during the network testing phase is 94%.