Oral cancer diagnosis based on gated recurrent unit networks optimized by an improved version of Northern Goshawk optimization algorithm

• Published in: Heliyon
• Main Authors: Lei Zhang, Rongji Shi, Naser Youssefi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2024
• Subjects: Oral cancer; Diagnosis; Gated recurrent unit networks; Northern goshawk optimization algorithm; Recurrent neural networks; Medical imaging; Science (General); Q1-390; Social sciences (General); H1-99; Northern Goshawk
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e32077; https://doaj.org/article/b29c725b4c46451ba734f6092fbb1ff4

Oral cancer early diagnosis is a critical task in the field of medical science, and one of the most necessary things is to develop sound and effective strategies for early detection. The current research investigates a new strategy to diagnose an oral cancer based upon combination of effective learning and medical imaging. The current research investigates a new strategy to diagnose an oral cancer using Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) networks optimized by an improved model of the NGO (Northern Goshawk Optimization) algorithm. The proposed approach has several advantages over existing methods, including its ability to analyze large and complex datasets, its high accuracy, as well as its capacity to detect oral cancer at the very beginning stage. The improved NGO algorithm is utilized to improve the GRU network that helps to improve the performance of the network and increase the accuracy of the diagnosis. The paper describes the proposed approach and evaluates its performance using a dataset of oral cancer patients. The findings of the study demonstrate the efficiency of the suggested approach in accurately diagnosing oral cancer.