Data Science Nigeria

AI Commons Health & Wellbeing Hackathon Solutions

Overview

The AI Commons Project is a proof of concept of a new methodology of developing Artificial Intelligence solutions that allows anyone, anywhere to benefit from the possibilities that AI can provide. The project aims to increase/improve the accessibility, reproducibility, contextualization and enhancement of Artificial Intelligence solutions globally and especially in emerging markets.

The project aims to demonstrate how a global community of AI experts can learn and co-create mutually beneficial solutions with the opportunity for cross-county incremental enhancement.

Pneumonia Classification

Statement of Purpose

Introduction

Problem Definition

Pneumonia is an infection that affects one or both lungs and it is known to cause premature death around the world. World Health Organization(WHO) estimated that about 4 million death occur annually from air pollution diseases including pneumonia

Research has shown that children and people older than 65 are the most vulnerable to the disease and continents with a high number of adult and children ratio like Africa and Asia are mostly affected.

A doctor examines the chest x ray of a patient to determine if the patient has pneumonia

Yes
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Solution

The solution is a pneumonia detection model. It helps health practitioners in hospitals, clinics and laboratories to quickly detect whether a patient has pneumonia, given the patient’s chest X-ray. The first and only release ofthe solution was in 2019.
See paper Here

The outcome of the solution is a prediction of whether the patient has pneumonia or not if a chest X-ray is provided as input

Health practitioners
Patients

A data scientist/ machine learning engineer is needed to build the prediction model and a domain expert (such as a thoracic surgeon) is needed to provide technical details on how the diseases work and are being identified

Usage

A simple use case: When a patient shows symptoms of pneumonia, her chest xray is fed into the model to predict in seconds the likelihood of the patient having pneumonia. With this, doctors can help recommend drugs that could help treat the disease at early stage.

Health practitioners

The chest x ray image which is the input is uploaded into the model by a medical practitioner and the prediction of whether the patient has pneumonia or not is displayed on the screen.

Composition

Collection Process

Evaluation

Testing the Solution

Result

Result Details

The model was able to predict 95% of the test data correctly and 5% wrongly. The model accuracy, precision, recall, f1_score are 94%, 93%, 100% and 96% respectively.

The measure of statistics utlized is the classification report available in scikit-learn (python library) which showed the precision, recall , accuracy and f1_score of the model

On training the model, there was an error drop from 100% to 7%.

The average runtime is about 1-2s to predicting each sample result.

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