Intelligent Pneumonia Identification from Chest X-Rays: A Systematic Literature Review

Chest radiography is an important diagnostic tool for chest-related diseases. Medical imaging research is currently embracing the automatic detection techniques used in computer vision. Over the past decade, Deep Learning techniques have shown an enormous breakthrough in the field of medical diagnostics. Various automated systems have been proposed for the rapid detection of pneumonia on chest x-rays images Although such detection algorithms are many and varied, they have not been summarized into a review that would assist practitioners in selecting the best methods from a real-time perspective, perceiving the available datasets, and understanding the currently achieved results in this domain. After summarizing the topic, the review analyzes the usability, goodness factors, and computational complexities of the algorithms that implement these techniques.