Combining multi-scale feature fusion with multi-attribute grading, a CNN model for benign and malignant classification of pulmonary nodules

Lung cancer has the highest mortality rate of all cancers, and early detection can improve survival rates. In the recent years, low-dose CT has been widely used to detect lung cancer. However, the diagnosis is limited by the subjective experience of doctors. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to use convolutional neural network to realize the benign and malignant classification of pulmonary nodules in CT images. We collected 1004 cases of pulmonary nodules from LIDC-IDRI dataset, among which 554 cases were benign and 450 cases were malignant. According to the doctors' annotates on the center coordinates of the nodules, two 3D CT image patches of pulmonary nodules with different scales were extracted. In this study, our work focuses on two aspects. Firstly, we constructed a multi-stream multi-task network (MSMT), which combined multi-scale feature with multi-attribute classification for the first time, and applied it to the classification of benign and malignant pulmonary nodules. Secondly, we proposed a new loss function to balance the relationship between different attributes. The final experimental results showed that our model was effective compared with the same type of study. The area under ROC curve, accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity were 0.979, 93.92%, 92.60%, and 96.25%, respectively.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:33

Enthalten in:

Journal of digital imaging - 33(2020), 4 vom: 13. Aug., Seite 869-878

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhao, Jumin [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Chen [VerfasserIn]
Li, Dengao [VerfasserIn]
Niu, Jing [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Convolutional neural network
Journal Article
Multi-scale feature fusion
Multi-task learning
Pulmonary nodule classification
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 16.08.2021

Date Revised 03.11.2021

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s10278-020-00333-1

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM308702336