An Optimized Multi-Level Convolutional Neural Network Model for Real Time Detection of Laryngeal Cancer
摘要
Voice disorders among people are constantly increasing nowadays all across the globe. In recent years, numerous researchers have developed diverse tools for voice pathology detection to determine the type of voice disorder accurately. However, these existing multifarious tools have various limitations, including but not limited to high computational complexity, low effectiveness, and many more. In this article, an improvised CNN-based multi-level model (IML-CNN) is proposed for laryngeal cancer detection in the initial stage based on the voice dataset. This IML-CNN model has been built based on a two-stage pipeline. Initially, a CNN-based detector is used to determine normal and pathological voice samples. Furthermore, a fine-tuned balanced classifier is integrated with the IML-CNN model for classification of the laryngeal cancer and its associated symptoms in the growing phase. Our proposed IML-CNN multi-level model adopts a structured training technique that involves scheduling of adaptive learning rate as well as dropout regularization to improve the generalization capability of the model. These strategies allow the IML-CNN framework to proficiently learn from different voice data samples and enhance its utility to a widespread medical issue associated with pathological voice disease. The performance evaluation of the proposed IML-CNN model offers an accuracy of 97.36%. The outcome of the proposed models demonstrates that they offer higher accuracy scores in the identification of voice pathological disorders and laryngeal cancer in real-time diagnosis procedures.