A Convolutional Neural Network-Based Intelligent Medical System with Sensors for Assistive Diagnosis and Decision-Making in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 21; no. 23; p. 7996
• Main Authors: Zhan, Xiangbing, Long, Huiyun, Gou, Fangfang, Duan, Xun, Kong, Guangqian, Wu, Jia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 30.11.2021; MDPI
• Subjects: CNN; Decision making; Developing countries; Diagnosis; dynamic sampling; Internet of Things; LDCs; Lung cancer; Medical records; NSCLC; Patients; Physicians; Sampling methods; semantic features; Sensors; transfer learning; China
• ISSN: 1424-8220; 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s21237996

In many regions of the world, early diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a major challenge due to the large population and lack of medical resources, which is difficult toeffectively address via limited physician manpower alone. Therefore, we developed a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based assisted diagnosis and decision-making intelligent medical system with sensors. This system analyzes NSCLC patients’ medical records using sensors to assist staging a diagnosis and provides recommended treatment plans to physicians. To address the problem of unbalanced case samples across pathological stages, we used transfer learning and dynamic sampling techniques to reconstruct and iteratively train the model to improve the accuracy of the prediction system. In this paper, all data for training and testing the system were obtained from the medical records of 2,789,675 patients with NSCLC, which were recorded in three hospitals in China over a five-year period. When the number of case samples reached 8000, the system achieved an accuracy rate of 0.84, which is already close to that of the doctors (accuracy: 0.86). The experimental results proved that the system can quickly and accurately analyze patient data and provide decision information support for physicians.