Automatic Detection of Lung Nodules Using 3D Deep Convolutional Neural NetworksShow others and affiliations
2019 (English)In: Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University (Science), ISSN 1007-1172, Vol. 24, no 4, p. 517-523Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Accurate early diagnosis is critical in increasing the 5-year survival rate of lung cancer, so the efficient and accurate detection of lung nodules, the potential precursors to lung cancer, is paramount. In this paper, a computer-aided lung nodule detection system using 3D deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is developed. The first multi-scale 11-layer 3D fully convolutional neural network (FCN) is used for screening all lung nodule candidates. Considering relative small sizes of lung nodules and limited memory, the input of the FCN consists of 3D image patches rather than of whole images. The candidates are further classified in the second CNN to get the final result. The proposed method achieves high performance in the LUNA16 challenge and demonstrates the effectiveness of using 3D deep CNNs for lung nodule detection.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Nature , 2019. Vol. 24, no 4, p. 517-523
Keywords [en]
A, computer-aided detection (CAD), convolutional neural network (CNN), fully convolutional neural network (FCN), lung nodule detection, R 318, Biological organs, Computer networks, Convolution, Diagnosis, Diseases, Neural networks, Automatic Detection, Computer aided, Computer-aided detection, Convolutional neural network, Detection of lung nodules, Early diagnosis, Deep neural networks
National Category
Computer graphics and computer vision Respiratory Medicine and Allergy
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-314031DOI: 10.1007/s12204-019-2084-4Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85066611882OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-314031DiVA, id: diva2:1670154
Note
QC 20220615
2022-06-152022-06-152025-02-01Bibliographically approved