Customized -RCNN and Hybrid Deep Classifier for Liver Cancer Segmentation and Classification

Overview

Journal Heliyon

Specialty Social Sciences

Date 2024 May 20

PMID 38765046

Authors

Rashid Khan

Liyilei Su

Asim Zaman

Haseeb Hassan

Yan Kang

Bingding Huang

Affiliations

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Abstract

Diagnosing liver disease presents a significant medical challenge in impoverished countries, with over 30 billion individuals succumbing to it each year. Existing models for detecting liver abnormalities suffer from lower accuracy and higher constraint metrics. As a result, there is a pressing need for improved, efficient, and effective liver disease detection methods. To address the limitations of current models, this method introduces a deep liver segmentation and classification system based on a Customized Mask-Region Convolutional Neural Network (cm-RCNN). The process begins with preprocessing the input liver image, which includes Adaptive Histogram Equalization (AHE). AHE helps dehaze the input image, remove color distortion, and apply linear transformations to obtain the preprocessed image. Next, a precise region of interest is segmented from the preprocessed image using a novel deep strategy called cm-RCNN. To enhance segmentation accuracy, the architecture incorporates the ReLU activation function and the modified sigmoid activation function. Subsequently, a variety of features are extracted from the segmented image, including ResNet features, shape features (area, perimeter, approximation, and convex hull), and enhanced median binary pattern. These extracted features are then used to train a hybrid classification model, which incorporates classifiers like SqueezeNet and DeepMaxout models. The final classification outcome is determined by averaging the scores obtained from both classifiers.

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