Detection of oral mucosal lesions has been performed by an in-house developed fluorescence-based portable device in the present study. A laser diode of 405 nm wavelength and a UV-visible spectrometer are utilized in the portable device as excitation and detection sources. At the 405 nm excitation wavelength, the flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) band at 500 nm and three porphyrin bands at 634, 676, and 703 nm are observed in the fluorescence spectrum of the oral cavity tissue. We have conducted this clinical study on a total of 189 tissue sites of 36 oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) patients, 18 dysplastic (precancerous) patients, and 34 volunteers. Analysis of the fluorescence data has been performed by using the principal component analysis (PCA) method and support vector machine (SVM) classifier. PCA is applied first in the spectral data to reduce the dimension, and then classification among the three groups has been executed by employing the SVM. The SVM classifier includes linear, radial basis function (RBF), polynomial, and sigmoid kernels, and their classification efficacies are computed. Linear and RBF kernels on the testing data sets differentiated OSCC and dysplasia to normal with an accuracy of 100% and OSCC to dysplasia with an accuracy of 95% and 97%, respectively. Polynomial and sigmoid kernels showed less accuracy values among the groups ranging from 48 to 88% and 51 to 100%, respectively. The result indicates that fluorescence spectroscopy and the SVM classifier can help to identify early oral mucosal lesions with significant high accuracy.

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