Classification of Disease from Lungs X-ray Images using VGG16, VGG19 and ResNet50 Models
This study addresses the urgent need for early and accurate diagnosis of pulmonary diseases amid their rising prevalence by systematically evaluating the performance of three prominent deep convolutional neural networks—VGG16, VGG19, and ResNet50—in classifying chest X-ray images. Using a large-scale public dataset, the models were trained and tested on four categories: pneumonia, tuberculosis, lung cancer, and normal lungs. Experimental results demonstrate that ResNet50 significantly outperforms the other architectures in both classification accuracy and computational efficiency, underscoring its superiority for intelligent computer-aided diagnosis of pulmonary conditions and offering a robust, efficient solution with strong potential for clinical deployment.