Research Article

Computer Aided Diagnosis System for Detection of Cancer Cells on Cytological Pleural Effusion Images

Table 10

Comparison of classification performance achieved by different synergy between feature selection methods and classification models.

Feature Selection (FS)Performance MetricsClassifiers
SVMANNNBKNNLRLDADTProposed ECBDT

All features (No FS)Sensitivity72.18%75.19%66.17%72.93%71.43%75.19%71.43%74.48%
Specificity95.47%94.48%93.41%95.51%94.82%95.12%94.10%96.11%
F-score57.31%55.25%46.93%57.91%54.44%57.64%51.91%61.73%
Accuracy94.21%93.44%91.95%94.29%93.57%94.05%92.88%94.98%

PSO-ANNSensitivity73.6570.91%69.16%74.29%69.23%69.16%71.83%76.47%
Specificity96.6496.11%95.67%96.72%96.11%95.67%96.32%97.09%
F-score76.2977.33%74.30%75.96%69.96%74.30%80.42%80.28%
Accuracy97.2197.25%96.64%97.21%97.29%96.64%97.73%97.73%

GA-ANNSensitivity87.97%86.47%64.66%87.9787.22%64.66%86.47%86.47%
Specificity97.22%97.09%99.44%98.2097.31%99.44%98.63%98.93%
F-score74.29%72.78%74.14%80.1474.36%74.14%82.14%84.25%
Accuracy96.72%96.52%97.57%97.6596.76%97.57%97.98%98.26%

SASensitivity85.71%86.47%90.23%84.21%84.9690.23%84.21%87.22%
Specificity97.22%97.73%97.60%97.52%98.3797.60%99.14%99.27%
F-score73.08%76.41%77.67%73.93%79.5877.67%84.53%87.22%
Accuracy96.60%97.13%97.21%96.80%97.6597.21%98.34%98.62%

Proposed SA-ANNSensitivity85.71%72.9372.9384.21%79.70%72.9386.4787.97
Specificity97.22%99.7099.6697.52%98.16%99.6699.2799.40
F-score73.08%81.8681.5173.93%75.18%81.5186.7987.79
Accuracy96.60%98.2698.2296.80%97.17%98.2298.5898.70