Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Lung Nodules: Systems for Estimation of Lung Cancer Probability and False-Positive Reduction of Lung Nodule Detection

2019 ◽  
pp. 107-132
Author(s):  
Mizuho Nishio
Keyword(s):  
Lung Cancer ◽  
False Positive ◽  
Lung Nodule ◽  
Computer Aided Diagnosis ◽  
Lung Nodules ◽  
Lung Nodule Detection ◽  
False Positive Reduction ◽  
Nodule Detection ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Aided Diagnosis

Overview of Computer Aided Detection and Computer Aided Diagnosis Systems for Lung Nodule Detection in Computed Tomography

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shabana Rasheed Ziyad ◽  
Venkatachalam Radha ◽  
Thavavel Vayyapuri
Keyword(s):  
Computed Tomography ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
Lung Nodule ◽  
Lung Nodules ◽  
Computer Aided Detection ◽  
Lung Nodule Detection ◽  
Nodule Detection ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Aided Diagnosis

Background: Lung cancer has become a major cause of cancer-related deaths. Detection of potentially malignant lung nodules is essential for the early diagnosis and clinical management of lung cancer. In clinical practice, the interpretation of Computed Tomography (CT) images is challenging for radiologists due to a large number of cases. There is a high rate of false positives in the manual findings. Computer aided detection system (CAD) and computer aided diagnosis systems (CADx) enhance the radiologists in accurately delineating the lung nodules. Objectives: The objective is to analyze CAD and CADx systems for lung nodule detection. It is necessary to review the various techniques followed in CAD and CADx systems proposed and implemented by various research persons. This study aims at analyzing the recent application of various concepts in computer science to each stage of CAD and CADx. Methods: This review paper is special in its own kind because it analyses the various techniques proposed by different eminent researchers in noise removal, contrast enhancement, thorax removal, lung segmentation, bone suppression, segmentation of trachea, classification of nodule and nonnodule and final classification of benign and malignant nodules. Results: A comparison of the performance of different techniques implemented by various researchers for the classification of nodule and non-nodule has been tabulated in the paper. Conclusion: The findings of this review paper will definitely prove to be useful to the research community working on automation of lung nodule detection.

scholarly journals Multi-Scale Heterogeneous 3D CNN for False-Positive Reduction in Pulmonary Nodule Detection, Based on Chest CT Images

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (16) ◽  
pp. 3261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhitao Xiao ◽  
Naichao Du ◽  
Lei Geng ◽  
Fang Zhang ◽  
Jun Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Pulmonary Nodule ◽  
False Positive ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
False Positive Reduction ◽  
Nodule Detection ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Pulmonary Nodule Detection ◽  
3D Cnn ◽  
Aided Diagnosis

Currently, lung cancer has one of the highest mortality rates because it is often caught too late. Therefore, early detection is essential to reduce the risk of death. Pulmonary nodules are considered key indicators of primary lung cancer. Developing an efficient and accurate computer-aided diagnosis system for pulmonary nodule detection is an important goal. Typically, a computer-aided diagnosis system for pulmonary nodule detection consists of two parts: candidate nodule extraction and false-positive reduction of candidate nodules. The reduction of false positives (FPs) of candidate nodules remains an important challenge due to morphological characteristics of nodule height changes and similar characteristics to other organs. In this study, we propose a novel multi-scale heterogeneous three-dimensional (3D) convolutional neural network (MSH-CNN) based on chest computed tomography (CT) images. There are three main strategies of the design: (1) using multi-scale 3D nodule blocks with different levels of contextual information as inputs; (2) using two different branches of 3D CNN to extract the expression features; (3) using a set of weights which are determined by back propagation to fuse the expression features produced by step 2. In order to test the performance of the algorithm, we trained and tested on the Lung Nodule Analysis 2016 (LUNA16) dataset, achieving an average competitive performance metric (CPM) score of 0.874 and a sensitivity of 91.7% at two FPs/scan. Moreover, our framework is universal and can be easily extended to other candidate false-positive reduction tasks in 3D object detection, as well as 3D object classification.

scholarly journals Design Computer-Aided Diagnosis System Based on Chest CT Evaluation of Pulmonary Nodules

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Hui Wang ◽  
Yanying Li ◽  
Shanshan Liu ◽  
Xianwen Yue
Keyword(s):  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Image Annotation ◽  
Lung Nodule ◽  
Ct Images ◽  
Computer Aided Diagnosis ◽  
Diagnosis And Treatment ◽  
Lung Nodules ◽  
Diagnosis System ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Aided Diagnosis

At present, the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer have always been one of the research hotspots in the medical field. Early diagnosis and treatment of this disease are necessary means to improve the survival rate of lung cancer patients and reduce their mortality. The introduction of computer-aided diagnosis technology can easily, quickly, and accurately identify the lung nodule area as an imaging feature of early lung cancer for the clinical diagnosis of lung cancer and is helpful for the quantitative analysis of the characteristics of lung nodules and is useful for distinguishing benign and malignant lung nodules. Growth provides an objective diagnostic reference standard. This paper studies ITK and VTK toolkits and builds a system platform with MFC. By studying the process of doctors diagnosing lung nodules, the whole system is divided into seven modules: suspected lung shadow detection, image display and image annotation, and interaction. The system passes through the entire lung nodule auxiliary diagnosis process and obtains the number of nodules, the number of malignant nodules, and the number of false positives in each set of lung CT images to analyze the performance of the auxiliary diagnosis system. In this paper, a lung region segmentation method is proposed, which makes use of the obvious differences between the lung parenchyma and other human tissues connected with it, as well as the position relationship and shape characteristics of each human tissue in the image. Experiments are carried out to solve the problems of lung boundary, inaccurate segmentation of lung wall, and depression caused by noise and pleural nodule adhesion. Experiments show that there are 2316 CT images in 8 sets of images of different patients, and the number of nodules is 56. A total of 49 nodules were detected by the system, 7 were missed, and the detection rate was 87.5%. A total of 64 false-positive nodules were detected, with an average of 8 per set of images. This shows that the system is effective for CT images of different devices, pixel pitch, and slice pitch and has high sensitivity, which can provide doctors with good advice.

scholarly journals Lung nodule detection on thoracic computed tomography images: Preliminary evaluation of a computer-aided diagnosis system

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 2552-2558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Metin N. Gurcan ◽  
Berkman Sahiner ◽  
Nicholas Petrick ◽  
Heang-Ping Chan ◽  
Ella A. Kazerooni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computed Tomography ◽  
Lung Nodule ◽  
Computer Aided Diagnosis ◽  
Preliminary Evaluation ◽  
Lung Nodule Detection ◽  
Computed Tomography Images ◽  
Thoracic Computed Tomography ◽  
Nodule Detection ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Aided Diagnosis

Multi-level 3D Densenets for False-positive Reduction in Lung Nodule Detection Based on Chest Computed Tomography

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 1004-1021
Author(s):  
Xiaoqi Lu ◽  
Yu Gu ◽  
Lidong Yang ◽  
Baohua Zhang ◽  
Ying Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
False Positive ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Lung Nodule ◽  
Positive Sample ◽  
Lung Nodules ◽  
Lung Nodule Detection ◽  
Nodule Detection ◽  
Level Information ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Cade System

Objective: False-positive nodule reduction is a crucial part of a computer-aided detection (CADe) system, which assists radiologists in accurate lung nodule detection. In this research, a novel scheme using multi-level 3D DenseNet framework is proposed to implement false-positive nodule reduction task. Methods: Multi-level 3D DenseNet models were extended to differentiate lung nodules from falsepositive nodules. First, different models were fed with 3D cubes with different sizes for encoding multi-level contextual information to meet the challenges of the large variations of lung nodules. In addition, image rotation and flipping were utilized to upsample positive samples which consisted of a positive sample set. Furthermore, the 3D DenseNets were designed to keep low-level information of nodules, as densely connected structures in DenseNet can reuse features of lung nodules and then boost feature propagation. Finally, the optimal weighted linear combination of all model scores obtained the best classification result in this research. Results: The proposed method was evaluated with LUNA16 dataset which contained 888 thin-slice CT scans. The performance was validated via 10-fold cross-validation. Both the Free-response Receiver Operating Characteristic (FROC) curve and the Competition Performance Metric (CPM) score show that the proposed scheme can achieve a satisfactory detection performance in the falsepositive reduction track of the LUNA16 challenge. Conclusion: The result shows that the proposed scheme can be significant for false-positive nodule reduction task.

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