Three stage cervical cancer classifier based on hybrid ensemble learning with modified binary PSO using pretrained neural networks

Abstract

ABSTRACTCervical cancer is one of the major challenges in developing nations like India.In recent years, a lot of research has been done todetect cervical cancer at an early stage through the pap-smear test, human papillomavirus test (HPV), etc. In this study, we have proposed athree-stage cervical cancer classifier to classify cervical cells among normal and abnormal cells using a hybrid ensemble classifier based onfeatures extracted using pre-trained neural networks. Furthermore, this work extends to classify the cells among different levels of dysplastic mainly mild, moderate and severe. The accuracy achieved for 2-class classification among normal and abnormal cells is up to 100% while for 4-class classification among normal, mild, moderate and severe dysplastic cells is up to 98.91% and 99.12% for new and old Herlev university hospital datasets respectively.