RESEARCH ARTICLE


Neural Network Based Filtering Method for Cancer Detection



J. Jaya1, *, A. Sasi1, B. Paulchamy2, K.J. Sabareesaan3, Sivakumar Rajagopal4, Nagaraj Balakrishnan5
1 Department of ECE, Akshaya College of Engineering and Technology, India
2 Department of ECE, Hindusthan Institute of Technology, India
3 Department of Engineering, Nizwa College of Technology, Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman-611
4 School of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India
5 Department of Engineering, Rathinam Technical Campus, Coimbatore, India


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Abstract

Objective:

The growth of anomalous cells in the human body in an uncontrolled manner is characterized as cancer. The detection of cancer is a multi-stage process in the clinical examination.

Methods:

It is mainly involved with the assistance of radiological imaging. The imaging technique is used to identify the spread of cancer in the human body. This imaging-based detection can be improved by incorporating the Image Processing methodologies. In image processing, the preprocessing is applied at the lower-level abstraction. It removes the unwanted noise pixel present in the image, which also distributes the pixel values based on the specific distribution method.

Results:

Neural Network is a learning and processing engine, which is mainly used to create cognitive intelligence in various domains. In this work, the Neural Network (NN) based filtering approach is developed to improve the preprocessing operation in the cancer detection process.

Conclusion:

The performance of the proposed filtering method is compared with the existing linear and non-linear filters in terms of Mean Squared Error (MSE), Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Image Enhancement Factor (IEF).

Keywords: Filtering, Image preprocessing, Pixel distribution, Neural network, ROI, Anomalous cells.