Automatic Categorization and Scoring of Solid, Part-Solid and Non-Solid Pulmonary Nodules in CT Images with Convolutional Neural Network
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Tu, Xiaoguang
Xie, Mei
Gao, Jingjing
Ma, Zheng
Chen, Daiqiang
Wang, Qingfeng
Cheng, Jie-Zhi
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Tu, Xiaoguang, Mei Xie, Jingjing Gao, Zheng Ma, Daiqiang Chen, Qingfeng Wang, Samuel G. Finlayson, Yangming Ou, and Jie-Zhi Cheng. 2017. “Automatic Categorization and Scoring of Solid, Part-Solid and Non-Solid Pulmonary Nodules in CT Images with Convolutional Neural Network.” Scientific Reports 7 (1): 8533. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-08040-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08040-8.Abstract
We present a computer-aided diagnosis system (CADx) for the automatic categorization of solid, part-solid and non-solid nodules in pulmonary computerized tomography images using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Provided with only a two-dimensional region of interest (ROI) surrounding each nodule, our CNN automatically reasons from image context to discover informative computational features. As a result, no image segmentation processing is needed for further analysis of nodule attenuation, allowing our system to avoid potential errors caused by inaccurate image processing. We implemented two computerized texture analysis schemes, classification and regression, to automatically categorize solid, part-solid and non-solid nodules in CT scans, with hierarchical features in each case learned directly by the CNN model. To show the effectiveness of our CNN-based CADx, an established method based on histogram analysis (HIST) was implemented for comparison. The experimental results show significant performance improvement by the CNN model over HIST in both classification and regression tasks, yielding nodule classification and rating performance concordant with those of practicing radiologists. Adoption of CNN-based CADx systems may reduce the inter-observer variation among screening radiologists and provide a quantitative reference for further nodule analysis.Other Sources
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