Work place: Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Tamil Nadu, India
E-mail: munees.klu@gmail.com
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Biography
Dr. V. Muneeswaran holds a Ph.D degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering and have vast research experience in discipline of Swarm Intelligence, Image/Signal Processing. He serves as a Guest editor for Applied Soft Computing, a peer reviewed journal published by Elsevier. As an author has published several articles in reputed journals Journal of Supercomputing, IEEE Access, Cognitive Systems Research and also several works as Book Chapters in Lecture notes in Computer Science, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering and Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies published by Springer. Majority of the articles published was based on the application of swarm intelligence for engineering applications viz., Medical Image Segmentation, optimization of Neural Networks etc., On his credit, there are several awards including Publons Peer Review Awards 2018 for placing in the top 1% of reviewers in Computer Science. At present he is working on projects related to Brain tumor segmentation using swarm intelligence techniques and Key areas in Medical Image Segmentation.
By Robert R. Muneeswaran V. Jose Saji Kumar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2026.01.09, Pub. Date: 8 Feb. 2026
Lung cancer is a main reason of death globally, and reducing death rates and enhancing treatment results depend heavily on quick identification. However, medical image diagnosis, including Computed Tomography (CT) scans, is difficult and demands a high level of experience. This research proposes a comprehensive and interpretable Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) structure to identify lung cancer from medical images. The workflow initiates with an Adaptive Savitzky-Golay Filter, effectively enhancing image quality by smoothing while preserving critical structural edges. Hierarchical Adaptive Cluster Refinement (HACR) is then used for precise segmentation, adaptively identifying abnormal lung regions with high accuracy. For feature extraction, the proposed system utilizes the Deep Statistical Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix (DS-GLCM) approach, which captures deep spatial and statistical texture features essential for distinguishing cancerous tissue. At last stage, classification is performed using a novel Deep Learning (DL) model Crested Porcupine Optimized (CPO) Channel-Attention (CA) InceptionResNet. The CPO algorithm is exploited to tune the CA- InceptionResNet model's hyperparameters. To ensure transparency and reliability in clinical use, Explainable AI (XAI) technique- Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME) is used for visual interpretability, highlighting regions in CT images that contribute the most to model forecasts, thus boosting clinician trust and decision-making. The entire framework is implemented in Python, and experimental results on benchmark lung cancer imaging datasets demonstrate its superior performance in terms of performance metrics with an accuracy of 98.18% with sensitivity of 95.94 % and specificity of 99.10%. The combination of advanced DL and explainable AI makes the proposed framework a promising solution for lung cancer diagnosis.
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