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A fast automatic juxta-pleural lung nodule detection framework using convolutional neural networks and vote algorithm

  • City University of New York

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Abstract

Lung Nodule Detection from CT scans is a crucial task for the early detection of lung cancer with high difficulty performing an automatic detection. In this paper, we propose a fast automatic voting based framework using Convolutional Neural Network to detect juxta-pleural nodules, which are pulmonary (lung) nodules attached to the chest wall and hard to detect even by human experts. The detection result for each region in the CT scan is voted by the detection results of the extracted candidates from the region, which we formulate as a generative model. We perform two sets of experiments: one is to validate our framework, and the other is to compare different convolution neural network settings under our framework. The result shows our framework is competent to detect juxta-pleural lung nodules especially when only a weak classifier trained on noisy data is available. Meanwhile, we overcome the problem of determining the proper input size for nodules with high variance in diameters.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPatch-Based Techniques in Medical Imaging - 4th International Workshop, Patch-MI 2018, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2018, Proceedings
EditorsBrent C. Munsell, Guorong Wu, Pierrick Coupé, Gerard Sanroma, Yiqiang Zhan, Wenjia Bai
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages85-92
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9783030004996
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event4th International Workshop on Patch-Based Techniques in Medical Imaging, Patch-MI 2018 Held in Conjunction with 21st International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2018 - Granada, Spain
Duration: Sep 20 2018Sep 20 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11075 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference4th International Workshop on Patch-Based Techniques in Medical Imaging, Patch-MI 2018 Held in Conjunction with 21st International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2018
Country/TerritorySpain
CityGranada
Period09/20/1809/20/18

Keywords

  • Deep learning
  • Juxta-pleural nodule detection
  • Lung cancer
  • Weakly labeled

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