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ArticleInterdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences2024

Cervical Cancer Classification From Pap Smear Images Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network Models.

Sher Lyn Tan, Ganeshsree Selvachandran, Weiping Ding, Raveendran Paramesran, Ketan Kotecha

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Article in Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 74 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Sher Lyn TanInstitute of Actuarial Science and Data Analytics, UCSI University, Jalan Menara Gading, Cheras, 56000, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Ganeshsree SelvachandranSchool of Business, Monash University Malaysia, Jalan Lagoon Selatan, Bandar Sunway, 47500, Subang Jaya, Malaysia. Ganeshsree.Selvachandran@monash.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7161-2109
Weiping DingSchool of Information Science and Technology, Nantong University, Nantong, 226019, China. dwp9988@163.com.
Raveendran ParamesranSchool of Information Technology, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, 47500, Subang Jaya, Malaysia.
Ketan KotechaSymbiosis Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Pune, 412115, India.
Monash University Malaysia · MYNantong University · CNSymbiosis International University · INUCSI University · MY

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As one of the most common female cancers, cervical cancer often develops years after a prolonged and reversible pre-cancerous stage. Traditional classification algorithms used for detection of cervical cancer often require cell segmentation and feature extraction techniques, while convolutional neural network (CNN) models demand a large dataset to mitigate over-fitting and poor generalization problems. To this end, this study aims to develop deep learning models for automated cervical cancer detection that do not rely on segmentation methods or custom features. Due to limited data availability, transfer learning was employed with pre-trained CNN models to directly operate on Pap smear images for a seven-class classification task. Thorough evaluation and comparison of 13 pre-trained deep CNN models were performed using the publicly available Herlev dataset and the Keras package in Google Collaboratory. In terms of accuracy and performance, DenseNet-201 is the best-performing model. The pre-trained CNN models studied in this paper produced good experimental results and required little computing time.

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Papanicolaou TestUterine Cervical NeoplasmsAlgorithmsFemaleHumansImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedNeural Networks, ComputerCervical cancer classificationCervical cancer detectionConvolutional neural networkDeep learningMedical image processingPap smear images

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PMID37962777
PMCPMC10881721
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