Classification of Colon and Lung Cancer through Analysis of Histopathology Images Using Deep Learning Models

Abstract

In the last four decades, medicine and healthcare have made revolutionary advances. During this time, the true causes of many diseases were discovered and new diagnostic procedures were devised and new remedies were invented. Globally, cancer is one of the serious diseases, which has become a widespread medical issue. A credible and early finding is especially important to reduce the risk of death. In any way, it is a difficult task that relies on the expertise of histopathologists. If a histologist is unprepared, a patient’s life may be put in danger. Deep learning has gotten a lot of attention recently and is being used in medical imaging analysis. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used to automate cancer detection. To better classify and for quality improvement of histopathology images, visualization techniques GradCam and SmoothGard are applied. This objective can be achieved by evaluating histopathological images of five types of colon and lung tissues using MobileNetV2 and InceptionResnetV2 models. These proposed models have accurately identified cancer tissues to a maximum of 99.95%. These models will assist medical professionals in the advancement of an automated and authentic system for detecting different types of colon and lung cancers.