Lung cancer remains a leading cause of mortality globally, with outcomes heavily dependent on the timeliness and accuracy of diagnosis. Traditional medical imaging techniques, while foundational in detecting lung nodules, often falter in distinguishing malignant from benign lesions with high precision, largely due to their inability to contextualize the complex spatial relationships within the images. Precise segmentation and classification of lung nodules is crucial for the early detection of lung cancer. This paper presents a novel deep learning model that incorporates a transformer block to improve the performance of lung cancer detection and classification. From performance evaluation, it is evident that our proposed model has an average accuracy of 93%. 05%, which is superior to the existing D3DR _ MKCA model with a mean accuracy of 91.53%. These findings are especially important for the identification of Adenocarcinoma and Small Cell Carcinoma, as improvements in the precision and recall factors have been achieved in these cases.
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