Screening for lung cancer using low dose computed tomography

MC Tammemagi, S Lam - Bmj, 2014 - bmj.com
Screening for lung cancer with low dose computed tomography can reduce mortality from
the disease by 20% in high risk smokers. This review covers the state of the art knowledge …

Automatic detection of subsolid pulmonary nodules in thoracic computed tomography images

C Jacobs, EM Van Rikxoort, T Twellmann… - Medical image …, 2014 - Elsevier
Subsolid pulmonary nodules occur less often than solid pulmonary nodules, but show a
much higher malignancy rate. Therefore, accurate detection of this type of pulmonary …

Feature-based image patch approximation for lung tissue classification

Y Song, W Cai, Y Zhou, DD Feng - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a new classification method for five categories of lung tissues in
high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) images, with feature-based image patch …

An automated lung segmentation approach using bidirectional chain codes to improve nodule detection accuracy

S Shen, AAT Bui, J Cong, W Hsu - Computers in biology and medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
Computer-aided detection and diagnosis (CAD) has been widely investigated to improve
radiologists׳ diagnostic accuracy in detecting and characterizing lung disease, as well as to …

Multiscale rotation-invariant convolutional neural networks for lung texture classification

Q Wang, Y Zheng, G Yang, W Jin… - IEEE journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a new multiscale rotation-invariant convolutional neural network (MRCNN)
model for classifying various lung tissue types on high-resolution computed tomography …

The added value of computer-aided detection of small pulmonary nodules and missed lung cancers

J Cai, D Xu, S Liu, MD Cham - Journal of Thoracic Imaging, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Lung cancer at its earliest stage is typically manifested on computed tomography as a
pulmonary nodule, which could be detected by low-dose multidetector computed …

Lung nodule classification with multilevel patch-based context analysis

F Zhang, Y Song, W Cai, MZ Lee… - IEEE Transactions …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a novel classification method for the four types of lung nodules, ie,
well-circumscribed, vascularized, juxta-pleural, and pleural-tail, in low dose computed …

Large margin local estimate with applications to medical image classification

Y Song, W Cai, H Huang, Y Zhou… - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Medical images usually exhibit large intra-class variation and inter-class ambiguity in the
feature space, which could affect classification accuracy. To tackle this issue, we propose a …

Deep learning for screening of interstitial lung disease patterns in high-resolution CT images

S Agarwala, M Kale, D Kumar, R Swaroop, A Kumar… - Clinical radiology, 2020 - Elsevier
AIM To develop a screening tool for the detection of interstitial lung disease (ILD) patterns
using a deep-learning method. MATERIALS AND METHODS A fully convolutional network …

Hybrid-feature-guided lung nodule type classification on CT images

J Yuan, X Liu, F Hou, H Qin, A Hao - Computers & Graphics, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a novel classification method for lung nodules from CT images
based on hybrid features. Towards nodules of different types, including well-circumscribed …