The classification of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) by means of transfer learning

Patients that are diagnosed with oral cancer has more than an 83% survival chance if it is detected in its early stages. However, through conventional labour-intensive means, only 29% of cases are detected. It is worth mentioning that 90% of oral cancer is Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC) and is...

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Main Authors: Ahmad Ridhauddin, Abdul Rauf, Wan Hasbullah, Mohd Isa, Ismail, Mohd Khairuddin, Mohd Azraai, Mohd Razman, Mohd Hafiz, Arzmi, Abdul Majeed, Anwar P. P.
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH 2022
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Online Access:http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/37556/
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Summary:Patients that are diagnosed with oral cancer has more than an 83% survival chance if it is detected in its early stages. However, through conventional labour-intensive means, only 29% of cases are detected. It is worth mentioning that 90% of oral cancer is Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC) and is often caused by smoking and alcohol consumption. Computer-aided diagnostics could further increase the rate of detection of this form of oral cancer. The present study sought to employ a class of deep learning techniques known as transfer learning. The Inception V3 pre-trained convolutional neural network model is used to extract the features from texture-based images. Consequently, the malignant and benign nature of the cancer is identified from three different machine learning models, i.e., Support Vector Machine (SVM), k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN) and Random Forest (RF). It was shown from the study that an average of 91% classification accuracy was obtained from the test and validation dataset from the Inception V3-RF pipeline. The outcome of the present study could serve useful in an objective-based automatic diagnostic of OSCC and hence could possibly increase its detection.