Reinforced Cascading Convolutional Neural Networks and Vision Transformer for Lung Disease Diagnosis

Lung diseases are among the most deadly infectious diseases worldwide. Covid-19 infection is a current disease that falls within this category and has impacted public health in countries across the globe. Accordingly, this study focuses on building a lung disease identification system using a state-of-the-art deep cascade learning classification model, EfficientNet-Vision Transformer. The proposed Real ESRGAN is utilized to enhance the input of EfficientNet, while image Relative Position Encoding (iRPE) is added to improve the attention of the transformer network. Moreover, weight balancing is applied to stabilize the performance of the proposed system. When trained on the X-Ray dataset, our model achieved 93.757% accuracy on five classes of lung disease: Normal, Covid-19, Viral Pneumonia, Bacterial Pneumonia, and Tuberculosis. © 2022 IEEE.

Vaccine Awareness and Enhancing Networked Healthcare System Across the Globe

Immunisation is the procedure of providing a vaccine to a person in order to protect him or her against disease. This process has been widely recognized and adopted as one of the world's most successful and cost-effective health interventions. Vaccines have been saving millions of lives worldwide from deadly infectious diseases and viruses, such as hepatitis, measles and polio. However, the COVID outbreak in the late 2019 has witnessed huge devastation on the global health front. For now, vaccine is the only cost-effective health intervention to control the spread of virus and completely eradicating it. Technological breakthroughs are making a significant contribution to the improvement of healthcare. Blockchain technology is one example of such a disruptive technology. Blockchains have the potential to improve the healthcare system in a variety of ways. In this paper, we have thoroughly discussed how we can create vaccine awareness across the globe by focusing on parents, healthcare workers, frontline workers, policymakers, media, and ultimately how everyone must work together to ensure that every individual in every country gets the vaccine. We also discussed how blockchain technology may be applied to many sectors of healthcare and the benefits it can provide in terms of enhancing global network healthcare systems. © 2022 IEEE.