An Efficient Optimal CapsNet Model-Based Computer-Aided Diagnosis for Gastrointestinal Cancer Classification

Abstract

Gastrointestinal or gastric cancer (GC) classification is a serious field of medical research and healthcare technology, where innovative machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) models are employed to categorize and analyze many kinds of GCs like pancreatic, gastric, or colorectal cancer. These models influence features extracted from medical imaging, genetic, and clinical data to distinguish between benign and malignant tumours, define cancer stages, and guide treatment verdicts. By automating cancer detection and classification procedures, DL techniques help healthcare experts make quicker and more exact analyses, leading to superior patient results, modified treatment tactics, and enhanced complete organization of GC cases. This technique has great promise for transforming initial detection and involvement in the battle against dangerous diseases. With this inspiration, this study presents a new snake optimization algorithm with a DL-assisted GC classification (SOADL-GCC) approach. The SOADL-GCC approach aims to examine the gastrointestinal tract images for the detection and classification of GC. To achieve it, the SOADL-GCC model employs a bilateral filtering (BF) approach for the noise removal process and enhances image quality. Besides, the SOADL-GCC technique uses a capsule network (CapsNet) model for deriving the feature vectors from preprocessed images. Moreover, SOA can achieve the optimum assortment of hyperparameters associated with the CapsNet model. Finally, the classification process can be performed using the deep belief network (DBN) model. A sequence of simulations took place on the Kvasir dataset to evaluate improved detection results of SOADL-GCC technology. An extensive comparative study reported that the SOADL-GCC technique effectively performs well with other models with a maximum accuracy of 99.72%.

Keywords

• Gastric cancer
• hyperparameter tuning
• CapsNet
• computer-assisted diagnosis
• deep learning
• feature extraction