Guarded Diagnosis: Preserving Privacy in Cervical Cancer Detection with Convolutional Neural Networks on Pap Smear Images

Advancements in image processing have advanced medical diagnostics, especially in image classification, impacting healthcare by offering faster and more accurate analyses of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and X-rays. The manual examination of these images is slow, error-prone, and costly. Therefore, we propose a new method focusing on the Pap smear exam for early cervical cancer detection. Using a convolutional neural network (CNN) and the SIPaKMeD dataset, cervical cells are classified into normal, precancerous, and benign cells after segmentation. The CNN’s architecture is simple yet efficient, achieving a 91.29% accuracy.