Automatic Liver Cancer Detection Using Deep Convolution Neural Network

Abstract

Automatic liver cancer detection (ALCD) is very crucial in automatic biomedical image analysis and diagnosis as it is the largest organ in the body and plays a significant role in the metabolic process as well as the elimination of toxins. In the last decade, various machine and deep learning schemes have been investigated for automatic ALCD using computed tomography (CT) images. However, ALCD in CT images is challenging because of the noise, intricate structure of abdominal computed tomography (CT) images, and textural changes throughout the CT images making liver segmentation a vital challenge that may result in both under-segmentation (u-seg) and over-segmentation ( o-seg) of the organ. This paper presents liver segmentation based on the proposed Edge Strengthening Parallel UNet (ESP-UNet) for liver segmentation to avoid the u-seg and o-seg of the liver in CT images. Further, it offered ALCD based on lightweight sequential Deep Convolution Neural Networks (DCNN). The consequences of ESP-UNet DCNN-based ALCD are evaluated based on accuracy, recall, precision, and F1-score. The suggested approach provides a noteworthy improvement in ALCD over the traditional state of arts.

Keywords

• Biomedical image processing
• computed tomography
• deep learning
• image enhancement
• ALCD
• liver segmentation