Affiliations: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangalore, India
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Corresponding author. S. Lalitha, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangalore, India. E-mail: lalithas.bmsce@rediffmail.com.
Abstract: Cancer has been one of the most serious health challenges to the human kind for a long period of time. Lung cancer is the most prevalent type of cancer which shows higher death rates. However, lung cancer mortality rates can be tracked by periodic screening. With the advanced medical science, the society has reaped numerous benefits with respect to screening equipments. Computed Tomography (CT) is one of the popular imaging techniques and this work utilizes the CT images for lung cancer detection. An early detection of lung cancer could prolong the lifetime of the patient and is made effortless by the latest screening technology. Additionally, the accuracy of disease detection can be enhanced with the help of the automated systems, which could support the healthcare experts in effective diagnosis. This article presents an automated lung cancer detection system equipped with machine learning algorithm, which can differentiate between the benign, malignant and normal classes of lung cancer. The accuracy of the proposed lung cancer detection method is around 98.7%, which is superior to the compared approaches.
Keywords: Cancer, Lung cancer detection, CT images, machine learning
