International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056
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Lung Cancer Nodules Classification and Detection Using SVM and CNN
Classifiers
Yashaswini S.L
1
, K.V Prasad
2
1
M.Tech student, Dept of ECE, Bangalore Institute of Technology
2
Professor & Head, Dept of ECE, Bangalore Institute of Technology
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Abstract - Cancer is a quite common and dangerous disease.
The various methods of cancer exist in the worldwide. Lung
cancer is the most typical variety of cancer. The beginning of
treatment is started by diagnosing CT scan. The risk of death
can be minimized by detecting the cancer very early. The
cancer is diagnosed by computed tomography machine to
process further. In this paper, the lung nodules are
differentiated using the input CT images. The lung cancer
nodules are classified using support vector machine classifier
and the proposed method convolutional neural network
classifier. Training and predictions using those classifiers are
done. The Nodules which are grown in the lung cancer are
tested as normal and tumor image. The testing of the CT
images are done using SVM and CNN classifier. Deep learning
is always given prominent place for the classification process
in present years. Especially this type of learning is used in the
execution of tensor Flow and convolutional neural network
method using different deep learning libraries.
Key Words: Lung cancer, deep learning, biomedical image
classification, confusion matrix, microdicom.
1. INTRODUCTION
Lung cancer is recognized as the main reason behind the
death caused due to cancer in the worldwide. And it is not
easy to identify the cancer in its early stages since the
symptoms doesn’t emerge in the initial stages. It causes the
mortality rate considered to be the highest among all other
methods of cancer. The number of humans dies because of
the dangerous lung cancer than other methods of cancer such
as breast, colon, and prostate cancers. There exist enormous
evidence indicating that the early detection of lung
cancer will minimize mortality rate. Biomedical classification
is growing day by day with respect to image. In this field deep
Learning plays important role. The field of medical image
classification has been attracting interest for several years.
There are various strategies used to detect diseases. Disease
detection is frequently performed by observant at
tomography images. Early diagnosis must be done to detect
the disease that is leading to death. One among the tools used
to diagnose the disease is computerized tomography. Lung
cancer takes a lot of victims than breast cancer, colon cancer
and prostate cancer together. This can be a result of
asymptomatic development of this cancer. The Chest
computed tomography images are challenging in diagnostic
imaging modality for the detection of nodules in lung cancer.
Biomedical image classification includes the analysis of
image, enhancement of image and display of images via CT
scans, ultrasound, MRI. Nodules within the respiratory organ
i.e. lung are classified as cancerous and non-cancerous.
Malignant patches indicate that the affected person is
cancerous, whereas benign patches indicate an affected
person as a non- cancerous patient. This can be done using
various classifiers.
2. EXISTING SYSTEM
Support Vector Machines is a method of machine learning
approach taken for classifying the system. It examines and
identifies the classes using the data. It is broadly used in
medical field for diagnosing the disease. A support-vector
machine builds a hyper plane in a very high or infinite-
dimensional area, which can be utilized
for classification, regression, or totally different operation
like outliers detection.
Fig -1: The SVM classifier representation.
Based on a good separation is obtained by the hyper plane in
the SVM. After classification if the gap is large to the nearest
training-data pictures of any class referred as functional
margin, considering that in generally the larger the margin,
the lesser the generalization error of the classifier. Fig-1
shows the support vector machine classifier that constructs
a maximum margin decision hyper plane to separate two
different categories. Support Vector Machine is a linear model
applied for the classification and regression issues.