Enhanced lung cancer detection: Integrating improved random walker segmentation with artificial neural network and random forest classifier.

Background: Medical image segmentation is a vital yet difficult job because of the multimodality of the acquired images. It is difficult to locate the polluted area before it spreads.

Methods: This research makes use of several machine learning tools, including an artificial neural network as well as a random forest classifier, to increase the system's reliability of pulmonary nodule classification. Anisotropic diffusion filtering is initially used to remove noise from a picture. After that, a modified random walk method is used to get the region of interest inside the lung parenchyma. Finally, the features corresponding to the consistency of the picture segments are extracted using texture-based feature extraction for pulmonary nodules. The final stage is to identify and classify the pulmonary nodules using a classifier algorithm.

Results: The studies employ cross-validation to demonstrate the validity of the diagnosis framework. In this instance, the proposed method is tested using CT scan information provided by the Lung Image Database Consortium. A random forest classifier showed 99.6 percent accuracy rate for detecting lung cancer, compared to a artificial neural network's 94.8 percent accuracy rate.

Conclusions: Due to this, current research is now primarily concerned with identifying lung nodules and classifying them as benign or malignant. The diagnostic potential of machine learning as well as image processing approaches are enormous for the categorization of lung cancer.

Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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