Volume 20 No 8 (2022)
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PREDICTION OF THE TUMOR RESPONSE LYMPH NODE BASED ON DEEP RESIDUAL BOLTZMANN CONVOLUTION NEURAL NETWORK
Manu M R\ , T Poongodi
Abstract
The most prevalent metastatic location for rectal carcinoma (RC) are lymph nodes (LNs), and the nodal
status is crucial to treating and forecasting choices. The site and several metastatic LNs should be
investigated before treatment guidelines comply with the NEC Network and the American Joint
Committee on Cancer (AJCC) stage standards. Identifying and removing metastatic LNs during the
intervention is crucial to prevent tumour repetition, especially in lateral lines. Some studies have shown
that stronger LLNs can be closer to local recurrence and showed that dissection of LLNs might enhance
prognosis and reduce local recurrence for patients with poor RC at these locations. In contrast, LLND is an
autonomous procedure with generally more surgical implications, including surgery and long-term sexual
and urinary problems. Therefore, the correct number and position of metastatic LNs must be indicated
before surgery in the therapy option. This work deals with segmentation and classification challenges for
normal and abnormal lymph nodes. Here Preprocessing is performed by Curvature based shearlet filter
with Contrast Limited Savitzky-Golay Histogram Equalization is used. The Semi-Supervised Fuzzy Logic
clustering Algorithm was then used to segment lymph nodes. Once the lymph region is segmented, the
grey level co-occurrence matrix is used to extract functions (GLCM). Then the scale-down bee herd
optimization approach is introduced to minimize the number of measures by features, which increases
the classifier detection rate. Deep residual Boltzmann Convolution Neural Network system of
classification creates a pattern for the benign lymph nodes and the malignant identification. In
comparison to state-of-the-art procedures, the simulation results demonstrate the importance of the
proposed method by obtaining a high range of precision (97.7%), sensitivity (95.7%) and specificity
(95.8%) than any other existing methodology
Keywords
Rectal cancer, Lymph nodes, Curvature based shearlet filter, Contrast Limited Savitzky-Golay Histogram Equalization, Semi-Supervised Fuzzy logic clustering algorithm, Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix, Scale down Bee herd colony optimization, Deep residual Boltzmann Convolution Neural Network.
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