AI-Powered CNN Model for Automated Lung Cancer Diagnosis in Medical Imaging

Lung cancer remains a critical health concern in the entire world, which has been a major cause of high rates of cancer-related mortalities that affect individuals in every part of the world. The findings emphasize the notable potential of deep learning procedures to assist radiologists in diagnosing cases of lung-related abnormalities appropriately. Such methods are also leading to the improvement of AI-based healthcare products. The enhancements to the suggested model [16, 17, 18, 21] in the future will be aimed at tuning hyperparameters, 3D CNN [16, 17, 18] architectures, and the integration of patient clinical data, with the aim of further increasing the accuracy [16, 17, 19] of diagnosis as well as system performance. This paper uses the IQ-OTHNCCD dataset, a publicly available and highly annotated set of CT imaging that has been annotated by experts in the medical field. The preprocessing techniques applied will involve changing the images to Grayscale, normalizing the pixel values, ensuring consistency in the images, and converting them to a standard size of 128x128 pixels, which is the ideal size to feed the images into the CNN [16, 17, 18]. In the proposed work, the model [16, 17, 18, 21] integrates multi-scale convolutional layers with adaptive dropout (rate=0.5) and ReLU activations, yielding 95% accuracy [16, 17, 19] and 0.95 F1-score (95% CI: 93.8–96.2%) on a 70/15/15 train/validation/test split— a 4% improvement in F1-score. Preprocessing includes grayscale conversion, pixel normalization to [0,1], and resizing to 128x128 pixels. The architecture comprises three convolutional blocks (32/64/128 filters, 3x3 kernels), max-pooling (2x2), flattening, a 512-unit dense layer, and a 3-unit softmax output. Future enhancements include hyperparameter tuning, 3D CNN [16, 17, 18] integration, and clinical data fusion to exceed 97% accuracy [16, 17, 19].