Assessing Cardiomegaly in Dogs Using a Simple CNN Model
This work addresses automated assessment of cardiac conditions in dogs for veterinary care, but it is incremental as it applies an existing method to new data.
The paper tackled the problem of classifying cardiomegaly severity in dogs using a custom CNN model on a new dataset, achieving 72% accuracy.
This paper introduces DogHeart, a dataset comprising 1400 training, 200 validation, and 400 test images categorized as small, normal, and large based on VHS score. A custom CNN model is developed, featuring a straightforward architecture with 4 convolutional layers and 4 fully connected layers. Despite the absence of data augmentation, the model achieves a 72\% accuracy in classifying cardiomegaly severity. The study contributes to automated assessment of cardiac conditions in dogs, highlighting the potential for early detection and intervention in veterinary care.