COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TRADITIONAL CLASSIFICATION AND DEEP LEARNING IN LUNG CANCER PREDICTION

The cancer is an intimidating illness. Extra care is necessary while making a diagnosis. To aid the identification process, medical imaging plays a crucial role by producing images of the internal organs of the body for better diagnosis of cancer. Medical images are typically utilized by radiologists, engineers, and clinicians to spot the inner constitution of either individual patients or group of individuals. Most doctors prefer computed tomography (CT) images for initial screening of cancer — mainly lung cancer. To achieve deeper understanding and categorization of lung cancer, diverse machine learning techniques are employed in image classification. Many research works have been done on the classification of CT images with different algorithms, but they failed to reach 100% accuracy. By applying methods like Support Vector Machine, deep learning system like artificial neural network (ANN) and proposed convolution neural network (CNN), a computerized system can be built for truthful classification. The models are built as a classification system that can identify the nodule, if present in the lungs, as benign, malignant or normal or as benign or normal. Lung cancer datasets at Iraq National Center aimed at Cancer Diseases (IQ-OTHNCCD) and Iran Hospital-based CT images are used in this research. SVM, ANN, and proposed CNN classification techniques are applied to the datasets considered. This research work, proposes a model for classification of CT images with very promising accuracy on the datasets considered.