Abstract:Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality, accounting for approximately 20% of all cancer-related deaths. Nevertheless, despite the development of new therapeutic agents and technologies, only 16% of lung cancer patients are diagnosed at early stages. Therefore, to diagnose in early stages, when the nodules are very small, is a complex task for specialists and presents some challenges. To assist the specialists, the main purpose of this work is to propose the use of Deep Learning to classify 25,200 … Show more
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