Earlier laryngeal cancer detection using hybrid M-RCNN technique

Abstract

One of the most common types of cancer is Laryngeal cancer, which has a high mortality rate. The primary malignant tumor responsible for this disease is squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). Early diagnosis is very important to avoid experiencing morbidity and mortality. Various tools and techniques are used to detect and monitor laryngeal cancers. Unfortunately, these tools and techniques have various limitations, for example, Existing tools and approaches Mask R-CNN for identifying laryngeal cancer have various performance limitations. These include the inability to accurately identify the disease in its early stages, the complexity of the computational environment, and the time-consuming process of conducting patient screenings by utilizing diverse image datasets, but it lagging to detect large dataset. In this paper, we present a hybrid deep-learning model which can be used to analyze and monitor the different symptoms of laryngeal cancers. Proposed model takes Laryngeal cancer dataset as input; preprocessing is done using median filter, then data augmentation is applied to increase data diversity, then feature extraction is performed using LBP-KNN, finally cancer identification/classification is done using Mask-RCNN. Proposed model attains Accuracy:99.3% ; Precision:97.99% ; Recall:98.09% and F-measure: 97.01%. This method could be useful in providing clinical support to radiologists and doctors. The proposed model can be used to detect minor malignancies in patients in a fast and accurate manner. It can also help improve the efficiency of the clinical process by allowing clinicians to screen more patients.