Pneumonia Detection

Detecting pneumonia can be a tricky business. Rob Zwetsloot looks at how a Raspberry Pi solution could help improve it

Arijit

Pneumonia is a respiratory condition that results from any number of viral or bacterial infections in people. It can also be fatal, which makes it very dangerous. Diagnosis is usually done via symptoms, and one of the more common ways of confirming it is via an X-ray. Young maker Arijit has been creating a device that scans these X-rays so it can more accurately detect it. “My project Pneumonia Detection is a complete open-source system that uses a Raspberry Pi accompanied with a Raspberry Pi Camera to run a state-of-the-art embedded machine learning model,” Arijit explains. “[This] allows the device to scan chest X-rays and let the user know the amount of viral or bacterial pneumonia present in the chest of the patient. The entire system kit would cost you…

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