Liver Tumor Classification Using Optimal Opposition-Based Grey Wolf Optimization

Abstract

Image processing plays a significant role in various fields like military, business, healthcare and science. Ultrasound (US), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Computed Tomography (CT) are the various image tests used in the treatment of the cancer. Detecting the liver tumor by these tests is a complex process. Hence, in this research work, a novel approach utilizing a deep learning model is used. That is Deep Belief Network (DBN) with Opposition-Based Learning (OBL)-Grey Wolf Optimization (GWO) is used for the classification of liver cancer. This process undergoes five major processes. Initially, in pre-processing the color contrast is improved by Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE) and the noise is removed by Wiener Filtering (WF). The liver is segmented by adaptive thresholding following pre-processing. Following that, the kernelizedFuzzy C Means (FCM) method is used to segment the tumor area. The form, color, and texture features are then extracted during the feature extraction process. Finally, these traits are categorized using DBN, and OBL-GWO is employed to enhance system performance. The entire evaluation is done on Liver Tumor Segmentation (LiTS) benchmark dataset. Finally, the performance of the proposed DBN-OBL-GWO is compared to other models and their achievements are proved. The proposed DBN-OBL-GWO achieves a better accuracy of 0.995, precision of 0.948 and false positive rate (FPR) of 0.116, respectively.