Fuzzy logic systems for diagnosis of renal cancer

Abstract

Renal cancer is a serious and common type of cancer affecting old ages. The growth of such type of cancer can be stopped by detecting it before it reaches advanced or end-stage. Hence, renal cancer must be identified and diagnosed in the initial stages. In this research paper, an intelligent medical diagnostic system to diagnose renal cancer is developed by using fuzzy and neuro-fuzzy techniques. Essentially, for a fuzzy inference system, two layers are used. The first layer gives the output about whether the patient is having renal cancer or not. Similarly, the second layer detects the current stage of suffering patients. While in the development of a medical diagnostic system by using a neuro-fuzzy technique, the Gaussian membership functions are used for all the input variables considered for the diagnosis. In this paper, the comparison between the performance of developed systems has been done by taking some suitable parameters. The results obtained from this comparison study show that the intelligent medical system developed by using a neuro-fuzzy model gives the more precise and accurate results than existing systems.