Histopathological Image Classification by Optimized Neural Network Using IGSA

Abstract

The histopathological image classification is a vivid application for medical diagnosis and neural network has been successful in the image classification task. However, finding the optimal values of the neural network is still a challenging task. To accomplish the same, this paper considers a two-layer neural network which is optimized through intelligent gravitational search algorithm. Further, the optimized two-layer neural network is applied for the histopathological tissue classification into healthy and inflamed. The proposed method is validated on the publicly available tissue dataset, namely Animal Diagnostic Laboratory (ADL). The experimental results firm the better performance of the proposed method against state-of-the-art methods in terms of seven performance measures, namely recall, specificity, precision, false negative rate (FNR), accuracy, F1-score, and G-mean.