HeartSmart: A Clinical Decision Support System for Cardiomegaly Detection in Chest X-ray Images using Convolutional Neural Network

Abstract

Cardiovascular disease is the Philippines' top cause of mortality. CVD typically results to high blood pressure and enlargement of the heart or cardiomegaly. HeartSmart is a web-based decision support tool. It assesses the patient's risk of heart enlargement with chest x-ray image as an input through the use of a convolutional neural network. The trained model in the system gives an accuracy of 71%, which can be further improved before it can be used as a decision support tool for detecting cardiomegaly in patients.