Multistrategy Improved Sparrow Search Algorithm Optimized Deep Neural Network for Esophageal Cancer

Deep neural network is a complex pattern recognition network system. It is widely favored by scholars for its strong nonlinear fitting ability. However, training deep neural network models on small datasets typically realizes worse performance than shallow neural network. In this study, a strategy to improve the sparrow search algorithm based on the iterative map, iterative perturbation, and Gaussian mutation is developed. This optimized strategy improved the sparrow search algorithm validated by fourteen benchmark functions, and the algorithm has the best search accuracy and the fastest convergence speed. An algorithm based on the iterative map, iterative perturbation, and Gaussian mutation improved sparrow search algorithm is designed to optimize deep neural networks. The modified sparrow algorithm is exploited to search for the optimal connection weights of deep neural network. This algorithm is implemented for the esophageal cancer dataset along with the other six algorithms. The proposed model is able to achieve 0.92 under all the eight scoring criteria, which is better than the performance of the other six algorithms. Therefore, an optimized deep neural network based on an improved sparrow search algorithm with iterative map, iterative perturbation, and Gaussian mutation is an effective approach to predict the survival rate of esophageal cancer.