SVM classifier based CAD system for Lung Cancer Detection

Author(s):  
Apoorva Mahale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 04001
Author(s):  
Sekar Sari ◽  
Indah Soesanti ◽  
Noor Akhmad Setiawan

Lung cancer is a type of cancer that spreads rapidly and is the leading cause of mortality globally. The Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) system for automatic lung cancer detection has a significant influence on human survival. In this article, we report the summary of relevant literature on CAD systems for lung cancer detection. The CAD system includes preprocessing techniques, segmentation, lung nodule detection, and false-positive reduction with feature extraction. In evaluating some of the work on this topic, we used a search of selected literature, the dataset used for method validation, the number of cases, the image size, several techniques in nodule detection, feature extraction, sensitivity, and false-positive rates. The best performance CAD systems of our analysis results show the sensitivity value is high with low false positives and other parameters for lung nodule detection. Furthermore, it also uses a large dataset, so the further systems have improved accuracy and precision in detection. CNN is the best lung nodule detection method and need to develop, it is preferable because this method has witnessed various growth in recent years and has yielded impressive outcomes. We hope this article will help professional researchers and radiologists in developing CAD systems for lung cancer detection.


Image classification is one of the major issues of image pre-processing approach. To resolve this issue a large number of classification approaches has been developed. In this work, a novel SVM-FA (support vector machine optimized with firefly approach) classifier is developed for detecting the lung cancer on the basis of the CT images. Lung cancer is considered one of the most critical and vital. Thus the early analysis of such kind of disease is required. For this purpose, the study implements the image pre-processing (filtration and segmentation) techniques to the input CT scan images. Then the SVM classifier, optimized with firefly approach is applied to the pre-processed data. The target of the work is to enhance the accuracy in the final prediction or output. For evaluating the proficiency level of the proposed SVM-FA approach, a comparison analysis is also performed in this work. The comparison is done among proposed work, traditional work and SVM classifier. On the basis of the obtained facts and figures, the proposed work is found to be effective and efficient in terms of the accuracy (96%) and specificity (83.333%) respectively


Lung cancer is the foremost cause of cancer-related deaths world-wide [1]. It affects 100,000 Americans of the smoking population every year of all age groups, particularly those above 50 years of the smoking population [2]. In India, 51,000 lung cancer deaths were reported in 2012, which include 41,000 men and 10,000 women [3]. It is the leading cause of cancer deaths in men; however, in women, it ranked ninth among all cancerous deaths [4]. It is possible to detect the lung cancer at a very early stage, providing a much higher chance of survival for the patients.


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