Classification of malignant lung cancer using deep learning

J Med Eng Technol. 2021 Feb;45(2):85-93. doi: 10.1080/03091902.2020.1853837. Epub 2021 Jan 15.

Abstract

In the automatic detection of suspicious shaded regions on CT images derived from the LIDC-IDRI dataset, the diagnostic system plays a significant role. This paper introduces an automatic recognition method for lung nodules of the regions of concern (ROI). The lung regions are segmented from DICOM image size 512 × 512 by adding a median filter, Gaussian filter, Gabor filter and watershed algorithm. AlexNet uses 227 × 227 × 3 with "fc7" (fully connected) layers and GoogLeNet uses 224 × 224 × 3 with "pool5-drop 7 × 7 s1" layers. Here, the authors explain what is better about AlexNet and GoogLeNet through its performance analysis, feature extraction, classification, sensitivity, specificity, detection and false alarm rate with time complexity. A multi-class SVM classifier with 100% precision and specificity provided the best performance in deep learning neural networks.

Keywords: AlexNet; Gabor filter; GoogLeNet; mSVM; nodule detection.

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Deep Learning*
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Lung Neoplasms / classification*
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Support Vector Machine
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed