Prognostic system for early diagnosis of pediatric lung disease using artificial intelligence

An asthma flare-up, which some people call an asthma attack or episode, happens when a person's airways get swollen and narrower and it becomes a lot harder for air to get in and out of the lungs. Asthma affects about 1 or 2 kids out of 10. Asthma is one disease that children start to develop even before the age of 5. This asthma is very difficult to diagnose during the young age. Most of the time it is difficult to distinguish between asthma and other childhood condition since the symptoms of either of the conditions can be similar [1]. Not all children have the same kind of asthma symptoms, these symptoms can vary from episode to episode in the same child. Children aged 0–17 years had higher asthma prevalence (9.5%) than adults aged 18 and over (7.7%) for the period 2008–2010. Females had higher asthma prevalence than males (9.2% compared with 7.0%) [2].