Journal Article

·2020 OPEN ACCESS

Detection of Cervix Cancer from Pap-smear Images

Betül Akyol YTU , Oğuz Altun YTU

Sakarya University Journal of Computer and Information Sciences

Abstract

Pap-smear test is used to detect cervical cancer, which ranks fourth in the ranking of cancer diseases in women worldwide. In this study, it is aimed to design a computer based decision system that can detect cervical cancer at an early stage. Normal and abnormal cells are found in the cervix images obtained as a result of the pap-smear test and the abnormal cells are marked on the image. The features extracted from the images were examined with pathologists and a dataset was created. For each of the 917 images in the Herlev dataset, these features were extracted and stored in a dataset. Support Vector Machines (SVM), Naive Bayes, Random Forest (RF), Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), Logistic Regression (LR), K- Nearest Neighbor (KNN) methods were applied to the created dataset, and accuracy values between 83% and 92% were obtained.

Keywords

Naive Bayes classifier Support vector machine Cervical cancer Random forest Artificial intelligence Cervix Logistic regression Pattern recognition (psychology) Cancer Multilayer perceptron Computer science Pap test Medicine Cervical cancer screening Machine learning Internal medicine Artificial neural network

Subject Areas

AI in cancer detection ·Artificial Intelligence ·Physical Sciences
Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare ·Health Information Management ·Health Sciences
Cervical Cancer and HPV Research ·Epidemiology ·Health Sciences

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