Supervised learning techniques for detection of Lung Carcinoma

Abstract

Lung diseases are the most common ailments seen among people with the history of smoking. Prompt and timely recognition and diagnosis may help in saving many lives. In order to detect cancer at early stages machine learning algorithms can be employed. Use of simple machine learning algorithms will help identify the carcinoma faster with high accuracy and lesser expense. This work shows the use three of simple machine learning (ML) algorithms like Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machine (SVM), and K-Nearest Neighbours (KNN). ML models were built using lung cancer patients’ dataset. The dataset was used to train the model as well as test the model. The three classifiers will detect the presence of lung cancer. For each classifier the Accuracy, Mean Square Error(MSE), precision, and Recall (R2) was calculated. A comparative study of the classifiers was done to identify which among the three was the best one. The main objective of the paper is to identify the best efficient machine-learning algorithm in terms of confusion matrices, accuracy, and precision for the prediction and diagnosis of lung cancer