A Lower False Positive Pulmonary Nodule Detection Approach for Early Lung Cancer Screening

Autor: Shaohua Zheng, Shaohua Kong, Zihan Huang, Lin Pan, Taidui Zeng, Bin Zheng, Mingjing Yang, Zheng Liu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Diagnostics, Vol 12, Iss 11, p 2660 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2075-4418
DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics12112660
Popis: Pulmonary nodule detection with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is indispensable in early lung cancer screening. Although existing methods have achieved excellent detection sensitivity, nodule detection still faces challenges such as nodule size variation and uneven distribution, as well as excessive nodule-like false positive candidates in the detection results. We propose a novel two-stage nodule detection (TSND) method. In the first stage, a multi-scale feature detection network (MSFD-Net) is designed to generate nodule candidates. This includes a proposed feature extraction network to learn the multi-scale feature representation of candidates. In the second stage, a candidate scoring network (CS-Net) is built to estimate the score of candidate patches to realize false positive reduction (FPR). Finally, we develop an end-to-end nodule computer-aided detection (CAD) system based on the proposed TSND for LDCT scans. Experimental results on the LUNA16 dataset show that our proposed TSND obtained an excellent average sensitivity of 90.59% at seven predefined false positives (FPs) points: 0.125, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 4, and 8 FPs per scan on the FROC curve introduced in LUNA16. Moreover, comparative experiments indicate that our CS-Net can effectively suppress false positives and improve the detection performance of TSND.
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