Introduction John Jenkins, a 72-year-old male, presented to the emergency department, accompanied by his wife with shortness of breath after being diagnosed with Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) two days ago. He was prescribed a broad spectrum antibiotic, Amoxicillin/Clavulanate 2g BD orally but has been feeling progressively...
Abstract Keywords: Pneumonia Detection, Densely Connected Neural Network, Mask Region based CNN Introduction Winter fever or Pneumonia; an acute respiratory tract infection, that inflames air sacs in one or both lungs, is mainly identified by fever, coughing and dyspnea (Duthey et al., 2013). A certain...
The incidence of pneumonia varies depending on sub-category, geographical location, patient population and healthcare setting. For example, in the United States of America (USA) from 2010 to 2012 it was estimated that the average incidence of CAP was 24.8 cases per 10,000 adults with a...
Broncholithiasis has been found in literature dating back to 200 BC with cases reported by the Galean and Aristotle in 300 BC and by Groftenberg in 1600 and Boerhaave in 1700 with descriptions of patients “spitting stones”(1). Broncholithiasis is an uncommon condition where caliculi (calcified)...
Pneumonia is an infection that causes the tissue in either 1 or both lungs to become inflamed, this can be caused by different types of organisms, but is most commonly caused by a bacterial infection in the upper respiratory tract. When pneumonia affects both of...
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