Gray level fuzzy deep neural networks for enhancing performance in lung disease detection: A comparative study with fuzzy logic methods

Abstract

Lung cancer is a deadly disease, and its early detection is crucial for effective treatment. In this context, accurate classification of lung cancers from computed tomography imaging is a vital research area. Irregularly detected gray matter in these images can affect classification outcomes, making accurate lung cancer detection difficult. To address this issue, researchers have developed a new approach that combines fuzzy logic and deep neural networks (DNNs) for extracting the hidden characteristic features of lung diseases from the images, and thereby, ensuring that only relevant features are used for classification. The proposed gray‐level fuzzy approach on DNNs (GL‐FDNN) is designed to accurately classify four distinguished lung cancer classes namely, Large cell carcinoma, Adenocarcinoma, Normal lung computed tomography, and Squamous cell carcinoma. After identifying the area of interest, its pixel intensity ratio is used to derive the fuzzy logic, which is then used to extract the most obscure gray matter features. Then, ResNet‐18 sorts the obscure features into categories and picks only relevant features to improve classification accuracy. The gray‐level fuzzy approach on DNNs technique was tested alongside some of the renowned, existing techniques for their relative performances. Experimental analysis was carried out on standard Kaggle datasets and the outcomes reveal that the proposed technique offers the highest level of lung disease classification accuracy (99.2%). It also improves the recall and precision factors. Thus, it can serve as a valuable diagnosis tool that can enhance the detection of lung cancer and the effectiveness of its treatment to save lives.