Diagnosing Heart Disease Types from Chest X-Rays Using a Deep Learning Approach

A chest x-ray is the most commonly performed diagnostic examination of heart disease. The interpretation of chest radiographs is crucial to detect a variety of conditions that affect millions all around the world every year. These diseases include cancer, heart and lung diseases, tuberculosis, fibrosis, and others. Trained radiologists perform these difficult time-consuming and challenging interpretation tasks. Misdiagnosis can occur. Computer-aided techniques could lead to more accurate and accessible diagnoses. The present paper used the VGG16 architecture to develop a deep convolutional neural network, which addressed the issue of ensuring accurate diagnoses of various diseases in chest radiography. The model performed well for chest radiography, resulting in high levels of diagnostic accuracy and sensitivity and the ability to classify 14 different diseases.