Towards automatic pulmonary nodule management in lung cancer screening with deep learning

The introduction of lung cancer screening programs will produce an unprecedented amount of chest CT scans in the near future, which radiologists will have to read in order to decide on a patient follow-up strategy. According to the current guidelines, the workup of screen-detected nodules strongly relies on nodule size and nodule type. In this paper, we present a deep learning system based on multi-stream multi-scale convolutional networks, which automatically classifies all nodule types relevant for nodule workup. The system processes raw CT data containing a nodule without the need for any additional information such as nodule segmentation or nodule size and learns a representation of 3D data by analyzing an arbitrary number of 2D views of a given nodule. The deep learning system was trained with data from the Italian MILD screening trial and validated on an independent set of data from the Danish DLCST screening trial. We analyze the advantage of processing nodules at multiple scales with a multi-stream convolutional network architecture, and we show that the proposed deep learning system achieves performance at classifying nodule type that surpasses the one of classical machine learning approaches and is within the inter-observer variability among four experienced human observers.

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ErratumIn: Sci Rep. 2017 Sep 07;7:46878. - PMID 28880026

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

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2017

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:7

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Scientific reports - 7(2017) vom: 19. Apr., Seite 46479

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ciompi, Francesco [VerfasserIn]
Chung, Kaman [VerfasserIn]
van Riel, Sarah J [VerfasserIn]
Setio, Arnaud Arindra Adiyoso [VerfasserIn]
Gerke, Paul K [VerfasserIn]
Jacobs, Colin [VerfasserIn]
Scholten, Ernst Th [VerfasserIn]
Schaefer-Prokop, Cornelia [VerfasserIn]
Wille, Mathilde M W [VerfasserIn]
Marchianò, Alfonso [VerfasserIn]
Pastorino, Ugo [VerfasserIn]
Prokop, Mathias [VerfasserIn]
van Ginneken, Bram [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 15.07.2019

Date Revised 30.03.2022

published: Electronic

ErratumIn: Sci Rep. 2017 Sep 07;7:46878. - PMID 28880026

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/srep46479

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NLM271089350