Pneumonia has been directly responsible for a huge number of deaths all across the globe. Pneumonia shares visual features with other respiratory diseases, such as tuberculosis, which can make it difficult to distinguish between them. Moreover, there is significant variability in the way chest X-ray images are acquired and processed, which can impact the quality and consistency of the images. This can make it challenging to develop robust algorithms that can accurately identify pneumonia in all types of images. Hence, there is a need to develop robust, data-driven algorithms that are trained on large, high-quality datasets and validated using a range of imaging techniques and expert radiological analysis. In this research, a deep-learning-based model is demonstrated for differentiating between normal and severe cases of pneumonia. This complete proposed system has a total of eight pre-trained models, namely, ResNet50, ResNet152V2, DenseNet121, DenseNet201, Xception, VGG16, EfficientNet, and MobileNet. These eight pre-trained models were simulated on two datasets having 5856 images and 112,120 images of chest X-rays. The best accuracy is obtained on the MobileNet model with values of 94.23% and 93.75% on two different datasets. Key hyperparameters including batch sizes, number of epochs, and different optimizers have all been considered during comparative interpretation of these models to determine the most appropriate model.

Dermoscopy images can be classified more accurately if skin lesions or nodules are segmented. Because of their fuzzy borders, irregular boundaries, inter- and intra-class variances, and so on, nodule segmentation is a difficult task. For the segmentation of skin lesions from dermoscopic pictures, several algorithms have been developed. However, their accuracy lags well behind the industry standard. In this paper, a modified U-Net architecture is proposed by modifying the feature map’s dimension for an accurate and automatic segmentation of dermoscopic images. Apart from this, more kernels to the feature map allowed for a more precise extraction of the nodule. We evaluated the effectiveness of the proposed model by considering several hyper parameters such as epochs, batch size, and the types of optimizers, testing it with augmentation techniques implemented to enhance the amount of photos available in the PH2 dataset. The best performance achieved by the proposed model is with an Adam optimizer using a batch size of 8 and 75 epochs.

Skin cancer is the most commonly diagnosed and reported malignancy worldwide. To reduce the death rate from cancer, it is essential to diagnose skin cancer at a benign stage as soon as possible. To save lives, an automated system that can detect skin cancer in its earliest stages is necessary. For the diagnosis of skin cancer, various researchers have performed tasks using deep learning and transfer learning models. However, the existing literature is limited in terms of its accuracy and its troublesome and time-consuming process. As a result, it is critical to design an automatic system that can deliver a fast judgment and considerably reduce mistakes in diagnosis. In this work, a deep learning-based model has been designed for the identification of skin cancer at benign and malignant stages using the concept of transfer learning approach. For this, a pre-trained VGG16 model is improved by adding one flatten layer, two dense layers with activation function (LeakyReLU) and another dense layer with activation function (sigmoid) to enhance the accuracy of this model. This proposed model is evaluated on a dataset obtained from Kaggle. The techniques of data augmentation are applied in order to enhance the random-ness among the input dataset for model stability. The proposed model has been validated by considering several useful hyper parameters such as different batch sizes of 8, 16, 32, 64, and 128; different epochs and optimizers. The proposed model is working best with an overall accuracy of 89.09% on 128 batch size with the Adam optimizer and 10 epochs and outperforms state-of-the-art techniques. This model will help dermatologists in the early diagnosis of skin cancers.

Brain tumor diagnosis at an early stage can improve the chances of successful treatment and better patient outcomes. In the biomedical industry, non-invasive diagnostic procedures, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), can be used to diagnose brain tumors. Deep learning, a type of artificial intelligence, can analyze MRI images in a matter of seconds, reducing the time it takes for diagnosis and potentially improving patient outcomes. Furthermore, an ensemble model can help increase the accuracy of classification by combining the strengths of multiple models and compensating for their individual weaknesses. Therefore, in this research, a weighted average ensemble deep learning model is proposed for the classification of brain tumors. For the weighted ensemble classification model, three different feature spaces are taken from the transfer learning VGG19 model, Convolution Neural Network (CNN) model without augmentation, and CNN model with augmentation. These three feature spaces are ensembled with the best combination of weights, i.e., weight1, weight2, and weight3 by using grid search. The dataset used for simulation is taken from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), having a lower-grade glioma collection with 3929 MRI images of 110 patients. The ensemble model helps reduce overfitting by combining multiple models that have learned different aspects of the data. The proposed ensemble model outperforms the three individual models for detecting brain tumors in terms of accuracy, precision, and F1-score. Therefore, the proposed model can act as a second opinion tool for radiologists to diagnose the tumor from MRI images of the brain.

The segmentation of lungs from medical images is a critical step in the diagnosis and treatment of lung diseases. Deep learning techniques have shown great promise in automating this task, eliminating the need for manual annotation by radiologists. In this research, a convolution neural network architecture is proposed for lung segmentation using chest X-ray images. In the proposed model, concatenate block is embedded to learn a series of filters or features used to extract meaningful information from the image. Moreover, a transpose layer is employed in the concatenate block to improve the spatial resolution of feature maps generated by a prior convolutional layer. The proposed model is trained using k-fold validation as it is a powerful and flexible tool for evaluating the performance of deep learning models. The proposed model is evaluated on five different subsets of the data by taking the value of k as 5 to obtain the optimized model to obtain more accurate results. The performance of the proposed model is analyzed for different hyper-parameters such as the batch size as 32, optimizer as Adam and 40 epochs. The dataset used for the segmentation of disease is taken from the Kaggle repository. The various performance parameters such as accuracy, IoU, and dice coefficient are calculated, and the values obtained are 0.97, 0.93, and 0.96, respectively.