A Comparative Study of GAN-Based Deep Learning Models for Pneumonia Detection in Chest X-Rays

📅 2026-09-05
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研究使用VGG19、MobileNetV2等模型及GAN生成的数据增强技术解决胸部X光片中的肺炎检测问题,但未证明GAN增强方法的有效性。
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This study evaluates pneumonia classification in chest X-rays using VGG19, MobileNetV2, ResNet50, and a custom CNN, and explores Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)-based synthetic data augmentation. MobileNetV2 achieved the highest reported accuracy of 88% with balanced class-wise performance. The custom CNN achieved pneumonia recall of 92.67% and precision of 79.43%, highlighting a precision-recall trade-off. Accuracy, F1-score, precision, recall, confusion matrices, and training curves were used to assess performance. Synthetic pneumonia images were combined with real images to investigate whether augmentation could improve classification performance. In the reported VGG19 comparison, augmented-data training accuracy reached approximately 100%, while validation accuracy remained near 50%, below the real-data validation accuracy. This experiment therefore did not demonstrate a validation-performance benefit from GAN augmentation. The classifier comparison highlights differences in accuracy and pneumonia recall, while the augmentation experiment indicates the need for further evaluation of synthetic-image quality and training settings.
Problem

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Pneumonia Detection
Chest X-Rays
Deep Learning Models
Data Augmentation
Generative Adversarial Network
Innovation

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Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)
synthetic data augmentation
pneumonia detection
chest X-rays
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