Slide-Detect: An Accurate Deep Learning Diagnosis of Lung Infiltration

ABSTRACT

Lung infiltration is a non-communicable condition where materials with higher density than air exist in the parenchyma tissue of the lungs. Lung infiltration can be hard to be detected in an X-ray scan even for a radiologist, especially at the early stages making it a leading cause of death. In response, several deep learning approaches have been evolved to address this problem. This paper proposes the Slide-Detect technique which is a Deep Neural Networks (DNN) model based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) that is trained to diagnose lung infiltration with Area Under Curve (AUC) up to 91.47%, accuracy of 93.85% and relatively low computational resources.