Cervical Cancer (CC) is the
fourth major cancer, which is responsible for a large number of deaths
among women. Early stage detection of the cancer is the most effective
solutions for decreasing the mortality rate. The lack of awareness, and
costly clinical diagnosis are the major barrier for women to participate
in clinical screening test to detect CC at an early stage. To address
the issue, the study aims to find a deep learning based intelligent
system to detect CC in the early stage using real time images. To build
the model, cervical cancer pap-smear test image datasets were gathered
and these were labeled and preprocessed. Then the YOLOv5 model was
employed on the labeled dataset to train the model. Three latest
versions of YOLOv5 model were applied in this study to find the most
efficient model for building the intelligent system to detect CC at an
early stage. All of the applied models provided satisfactory
performance. Among all the applied models, YOLOv5s outperformed with
0.8279 precision and 0.8265 recall value. The performance of the study
indicates that the proposed model highly potential to diagnose CC using
real time images in early stage. In the medical field, the proposed will
be quite useful for clinicians, and medical professionals.