Article: EfficientNet deep learning model for pneumothorax disease detection in chest X-ray images Journal: International Journal of Business Information Systems (IJBIS) 2025 Vol.50 No.1 pp.1 - 21 Abstract: Pneumothorax is a serious, life-threatening disease resulting from a collapsed lung and respiratory distress that requires prompt and effective diagnosis. The common diagnoses of pneumothorax disease are reliant on chest X-rays. Automatic ways that can fulfill the accurate detection of pneumothorax from chest X-ray images assist radiologists in diagnoses and treatment. In this paper, convolution neural network (CNN) model instituted on the EfficientNet-B3 architecture was proposed to train a dataset of pneumothorax chest X-ray images. The used pneumothorax dataset has 2,027 chest X-ray images. Data augmentation processes have been applied before feeding the main proposed model with these data. This prepossessing technique is required to solve data imbalanced issues and to enhance utmost accuracy. The dataset is split into training and testing data with 80:20 ratio. The experimental outputs of this study proved that the proposed approach can accurately detect the afflicted pneumothorax chest X-ray images with the best accuracy results reaching 97.26% at the testing dataset, when compared with other state-of-the-art models. Consequently, these strong outcomes with the efficient performance of final obtained outcomes will increase the impact of clinical training and patient nursing. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: EfficientNet deep learning model for pneumothorax disease detection in chest X-ray images

Authors: Aya Migdady; Ahmad Alaiad; Ra'ed M. Al-Khatib

Addresses: Department of Computer Information Systems, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid 22110, Jordan ' Department of Computer Information Systems, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid 22110, Jordan ' Department of Computer Sciences, Yarmouk University, Irbid 21163, Jordan

Abstract: Pneumothorax is a serious, life-threatening disease resulting from a collapsed lung and respiratory distress that requires prompt and effective diagnosis. The common diagnoses of pneumothorax disease are reliant on chest X-rays. Automatic ways that can fulfill the accurate detection of pneumothorax from chest X-ray images assist radiologists in diagnoses and treatment. In this paper, convolution neural network (CNN) model instituted on the EfficientNet-B3 architecture was proposed to train a dataset of pneumothorax chest X-ray images. The used pneumothorax dataset has 2,027 chest X-ray images. Data augmentation processes have been applied before feeding the main proposed model with these data. This prepossessing technique is required to solve data imbalanced issues and to enhance utmost accuracy. The dataset is split into training and testing data with 80:20 ratio. The experimental outputs of this study proved that the proposed approach can accurately detect the afflicted pneumothorax chest X-ray images with the best accuracy results reaching 97.26% at the testing dataset, when compared with other state-of-the-art models. Consequently, these strong outcomes with the efficient performance of final obtained outcomes will increase the impact of clinical training and patient nursing.

Keywords: artificial intelligence; convolution neural network; CNN; EfficientNet-B3; data augmentation; X-ray images; pneumothorax.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2025.148498

International Journal of Business Information Systems, 2025 Vol.50 No.1, pp.1 - 21

Received: 30 Oct 2021
Accepted: 20 Nov 2021
Published online: 09 Sep 2025 *

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