IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR DETECTING PNEUMONIA

Abstract

In 2019 alone, Pneumonia was the cause of 2.49 Million deaths around the world. If we count the deaths due to COVID-19 since 2020 for all-cause pneumonia, Pneumonia would surpass all other infectious killers. While traditionally speaking, Pneumonia is considered as a lung disease, acute pneumonia has important effects on the cardiovascular system at all severities of infection. It is also a leading cause of worsening cardiovascular risk and results have shown that about a quarter of adults admitted to hospital with pneumonia develop a major acute cardiac complication during their treatment and an increase of 60% in short-term mortality. As it has always been one of the major infectious diseases resulting in millions of deaths of children as well as elderly population, there is a strong interest and research to find an early diagnosis of pneumonia with easily accessible technology