Vision Transformer-based Automated Model for Enhancing Lung Cancer Classification

Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer related mortality. The early detection and classification of the cancers tissues will reduce the mortalities rate. The present research focus on the development of automated classification model for lung and colon cancers tissues based on the histopathology images. The present work encompasses a vision transformer (ViT) based model to enhance diagnostic accuracy of lung cancers tissues. The proposed model utilizes the self-attention mechanism of ViT to focus on essential features present in histopathologicals images. The proposed model has been validated using two different dataset namely LC25000 & IQ-OTH/NCCD with 25000 & 1096 images respectively. The performance of proposed model is compared with traditional convolutional neural network (CNN) model and it has been observed the based model outforms better in terms of accuracy which - 98.80% & 99.09% respectively for datasets.

https://doi.org/10.1109/ist63414.2024.10759176