MENet: A Mitscherlich function based ensemble of CNN models to classify lung cancer using CT scans.

Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. To reduce the mortality rate, early detection and proper treatment should be ensured. Computer-aided diagnosis methods analyze different modalities of medical images to increase diagnostic precision. In this paper, we propo...

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Main Authors: Surya Majumder, Nandita Gautam, Abhishek Basu, Arup Sau, Zong Woo Geem, Ram Sarkar
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Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2024-01-01
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Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0298527&type=printable
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author Surya Majumder
Nandita Gautam
Abhishek Basu
Arup Sau
Zong Woo Geem
Ram Sarkar
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Nandita Gautam
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Arup Sau
Zong Woo Geem
Ram Sarkar
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description Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. To reduce the mortality rate, early detection and proper treatment should be ensured. Computer-aided diagnosis methods analyze different modalities of medical images to increase diagnostic precision. In this paper, we propose an ensemble model, called the Mitscherlich function-based Ensemble Network (MENet), which combines the prediction probabilities obtained from three deep learning models, namely Xception, InceptionResNetV2, and MobileNetV2, to improve the accuracy of a lung cancer prediction model. The ensemble approach is based on the Mitscherlich function, which produces a fuzzy rank to combine the outputs of the said base classifiers. The proposed method is trained and tested on the two publicly available lung cancer datasets, namely Iraq-Oncology Teaching Hospital/National Center for Cancer Diseases (IQ-OTH/NCCD) and LIDC-IDRI, both of these are computed tomography (CT) scan datasets. The obtained results in terms of some standard metrics show that the proposed method performs better than state-of-the-art methods. The codes for the proposed work are available at https://github.com/SuryaMajumder/MENet.
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spelling doaj-art-07ab5ae8d6fb46a18e42bf2a033915832025-08-20T01:47:26ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032024-01-01193e029852710.1371/journal.pone.0298527MENet: A Mitscherlich function based ensemble of CNN models to classify lung cancer using CT scans.Surya MajumderNandita GautamAbhishek BasuArup SauZong Woo GeemRam SarkarLung cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. To reduce the mortality rate, early detection and proper treatment should be ensured. Computer-aided diagnosis methods analyze different modalities of medical images to increase diagnostic precision. In this paper, we propose an ensemble model, called the Mitscherlich function-based Ensemble Network (MENet), which combines the prediction probabilities obtained from three deep learning models, namely Xception, InceptionResNetV2, and MobileNetV2, to improve the accuracy of a lung cancer prediction model. The ensemble approach is based on the Mitscherlich function, which produces a fuzzy rank to combine the outputs of the said base classifiers. The proposed method is trained and tested on the two publicly available lung cancer datasets, namely Iraq-Oncology Teaching Hospital/National Center for Cancer Diseases (IQ-OTH/NCCD) and LIDC-IDRI, both of these are computed tomography (CT) scan datasets. The obtained results in terms of some standard metrics show that the proposed method performs better than state-of-the-art methods. The codes for the proposed work are available at https://github.com/SuryaMajumder/MENet.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0298527&type=printable
spellingShingle Surya Majumder
Nandita Gautam
Abhishek Basu
Arup Sau
Zong Woo Geem
Ram Sarkar
MENet: A Mitscherlich function based ensemble of CNN models to classify lung cancer using CT scans.
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title MENet: A Mitscherlich function based ensemble of CNN models to classify lung cancer using CT scans.
title_full MENet: A Mitscherlich function based ensemble of CNN models to classify lung cancer using CT scans.
title_fullStr MENet: A Mitscherlich function based ensemble of CNN models to classify lung cancer using CT scans.
title_full_unstemmed MENet: A Mitscherlich function based ensemble of CNN models to classify lung cancer using CT scans.
title_short MENet: A Mitscherlich function based ensemble of CNN models to classify lung cancer using CT scans.
title_sort menet a mitscherlich function based ensemble of cnn models to classify lung cancer using ct scans
url https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0298527&type=printable
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