Machine Learning Approaches of Lung Cancer Image Processing for Detecting and Identifying Various Stages of Analysis

Abstract

The current paper is aimed at examining the use of machine learning approaches for lung cancer detection and classification using medical imaging data. In order to create the model, we collected a comprehensive dataset of 2400 images of lung cancer at different stages and healthy pictures. These data were preprocessed, and several approaches to the feature extraction were considered, namely Histogram of Oriented Gradients , and Local Binary Patterns . In addition, we attempted to use deep learning representations to determine their usefulness in this case. Moreover, these features were used for four ML models, namely Convolutional Neural Network , ResNet-18, , and VGG-19, to determine the most suitable one. To evaluate the general performance of these models, all the characteristic points were taken into account, such as the precision, recall, F1 score, accuracy, and confusion matrices. The results of the primary analysis indicate that the accuracy of our proposed model was the highest, 96.86%. The other places were taken by other deep learning architectures, which also demonstrate high level performance. In general, we may conclude that the findings show it is possible to use ML algorithms to improve the quality of clinical decisions and make the process of lung cancer detection and classification more accurate. At the same time, we were able to provide a comprehensive evaluation of all these results and the thorough analysis of the general performance of each model. This may serve as the basis for the subsequent improvements and changes that would allow enhancing the general quality of diagnostics and training more advanced models.