The Application of CNN and Hybrid Networks in Medical Images Processing and Cancer Classification

This book is devoted to the problems of information technologies (IT) and artificial intelligence methods applied to medical image processing, tumour detection and cancer classification in different human organs, including the breasts, lungs and brain. The most efficient modern tools in the problem of medical images processing and analysis are considered- convolutional neural networks (CNN). The main goal of this book is to present and analyze new perspective architectures of CNN aimed to increase accuracy of cancer classification. This book contains new approaches for improving efficiency of cancer detection in comparison with known CNN structures. The numerous experimental investigations proved their better efficiency by different classification criteria as compared with known.

This book will be useful to specialists engaged in IT applications in medicine, dealing with development and application of medical diagnostics systems, students and postgraduates in Computer Science, all persons who are interested in IT applications in medicine, medical personnel engaged in malignant tumour diagnostics and cancer detection, and the wider public interested in the problems of cancer diagnostics that desire to extend their knowledge of prospective IT methods and their effectively solutions.