Tri-UnityNet: A Multifaceted Ensemble Model for Pneumonia Detection

Pneumonia is an infection often caused by several viral infections and prediction of pneumonia requires expertise from radiotherapists, posing challenges, especially in remote areas. Developing an automatic pneumonia detection system is crucial to detect and treat pneumonia disease. Hence, an innovative approach is proposed to detect pneumonia by utilizing the ensemble of deep learning models, specifically VGG16, ResNet50, and InceptionV3. The ensemble method integrates predictions from these various architectures to enhance overall classification performance. Rather than starting the training of each model from the beginning, transfer learning techniques are utilized to fine-tune Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models using a pre-existing knowledge base. This involves leveraging pre-trained models and adapting them specifically for the disease diagnose on Chest X-ray image dataset. The features are extracted from VGG16, ResNet50, and InceptionV3 models and the classes of disease are predicted by using softmax layers. Finally, ensemble learning is employed to fuse the predictions of multiple neural network architectures within Tri-UnityNet, enhancing its accuracy and robustness in pneumonia detection. By leveraging the complementary strengths of diverse models, the ensemble approach achieves superior performance, contributing to more reliable diagnostic outcomes.