A Novel Approach using CapsNet and Deep Belief Network for Detection and Identification of Oral Leukopenia

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel deep learning approach combining CapsNet and Deep Belief Network for automated detection and classification of oral lesions, aiming to facilitate early oral cancer diagnosis with high accuracy.

Contribution

It presents an innovative integration of CapsNet and Deep Belief Network for oral lesion detection and classification, along with a new method for combining annotations from multiple clinicians.

Findings

Image classification F1 score of 94.23% for lesion detection

Referral image identification F1 score of 93.46%

Lesion identification F1 score of 89.34%

Abstract

Oral cancer constitutes a significant global health concern, resulting in 277,484 fatalities in 2023, with the highest prevalence observed in low- and middle-income nations. Facilitating automation in the detection of possibly malignant and malignant lesions in the oral cavity could result in cost-effective and early disease diagnosis. Establishing an extensive repository of meticulously annotated oral lesions is essential. In this research photos are being collected from global clinical experts, who have been equipped with an annotation tool to generate comprehensive labelling. This research presents a novel approach for integrating bounding box annotations from various doctors. Additionally, Deep Belief Network combined with CAPSNET is employed to develop automated systems that extracted intricate patterns to address this challenging problem. This study evaluated two deep learning-based computer vision methodologies for the automated detection and classification of oral lesions to facilitate the early detection of oral cancer: image classification utilizing CAPSNET. Image classification attained an F1 score of 94.23% for detecting photos with lesions 93.46% for identifying images necessitating referral. Object detection attained an F1 score of 89.34% for identifying lesions for referral. Subsequent performances are documented about classification based on the sort of referral decision. Our preliminary findings indicate that deep learning possesses the capability to address this complex problem.