The author shares their experience of training a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for detecting pneumonia.
Key skills learned include handling class imbalance in the training set, using validation and test sets, image resizing, pixel normalization, and data augmentation.
The author explains the importance of avoiding photometric transformations in pneumonia detection and the use of ReLU activation function.
Metrics used for evaluation include accuracy, precision, recall, and loss tracking. The author invites discussion on optimizing CNN performance.