Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

IEEE Access

Publication Date

10-24-2024

Abstract

Cervical cancer is one of the leading causes of death in women worldwide. Prompt and accurate diagnosis is imperative for the treatment of cervical cancer through the utilization of pap smear slides, albeit it is a multifaceted and time-intensive process. An automatic diagnosis model based on deep learning models, particularly a convolutional neural network (CNN), can enhance cervical cancer's accuracy and rapid identification. This paper proposes a cross entropy-based multi-deep transfer learning model for the early detection and categorization of cervical cancer cells. The proposed model consists of four phases: the pre-processing phase, the feature extraction and fusion phase, the feature reduction phase, and the feature classification phase. In the pre-processing phase, cervical cancer input images are resized to 64×64 to match the input layer of the deep neural network. Feature extraction and fusion phase are adapted to extract features through different deep transfer learning models, including MobileNet, DenseNet, EfficientNet, Xception, RegNet, and ResNet-50, followed by a fusion process for all extracted features. As for the feature reduction process phase, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is applied as a feature reduction technique. Finally, a pipeline of three dense layers completes the classification process. A novel loss function termed smoothing cross-entropy is presented to enhance classification performance. The performance of the proposed model is validated using benchmark datasets, namely the SIPaKMeD dataset. According to the results, the suggested model attains a remarkable accuracy of 97% for the SIPaKMeD datasets using 676 features.

ISSN

2169-3536

Volume

12

First Page

157838

Last Page

157853

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

binary cross entropy, cancer disease, Cervical cancers, deep learning, feature fusion, principal component analysis, smoothing loss, transfer learning

Scopus ID

85209229616

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

yes

Open Access Type

Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series

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