Lung cancer detection with machine learning classifiers with multi-attribute decision-making system and deep learning model.

Journal: Scientific reports
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Abstract

Diseases of the airways and the other parts of the lung cause chronic respiratory diseases. The major cause of lung disease is tobacco smoke, along with risk factors such as dust, air pollution, chemicals, and frequent lower respiratory infections during childhood. Early detection of these diseases requires the analysis of medical images, which would aid doctors in providing effective treatment.This paper aims to classify lung X-ray images as benign or malignant and to identify the type of disease, such as Atelectasis, Infiltration, Nodule, and Pneumonia, if the disease is malignant. Machine learning (ML) approaches, combined with a multi-attribute decision-making method called Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), are used to rank different classifiers. Additionally, the deep learning (DL) model Inception v3 is proposed. This method ranks the SVM with RBF as the best classifier among the others used in this approach. Furthermore, the results show that the deep learning model achieves the best accuracy of 97.05%, which is 11.8% higher than the machine learning approach using the same dataset.

Authors

  • T Meeradevi
    Department of ECE, Kongu Engineering College, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India.
  • S Sasikala
    Electronics and Communication Engineering, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
  • L Murali
    P.A.College of Engineering and Technology, Pollachi, Tamil Nadu, India.
  • N Manikandan
    P.A.College of Engineering and Technology, Pollachi, Tamil Nadu, India.
  • Krishnaraj Ramaswamy
    Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering Science, Dambi Dollo University, Dambi Dollo, Ethiopia. dr.krishnarajdirectorcei@dadu.edu.et.