An Effective Segmentation Approach for Lung CT Images Using Histogram Thresholding with EMD Refinement

2013 ◽  
pp. 483-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khan Z. Faizal ◽  
V. Kavitha
Keyword(s):  
Ct Images ◽  
Segmentation Approach ◽  
Lung Ct

scholarly journals Segmentation of Lung Images using Region based Neural Networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 2037-2042 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Faizal Khan
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Computer Tomography ◽  
Region Growing ◽  
Ct Images ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Lung Region ◽  
Segmentation Accuracy ◽  
Segmentation Approach ◽  
Lung Ct

In this article, a neural network-based segmentation approach for CT lung images was proposed using the combination of Neural Networks and region growing which combines the regions of different pixels. The proposed approach expresses a method for segmenting the lung region from lung Computer Tomography (CT) images. This method is proposed to obtain an optimal segmented region. The first step begins by the process of finding the area which represents the lung region. In order to achieve this, the regions of all the pixel present in the entire image is grown. Second step is, the grown region values are given as input to the Echo state neural networks in order to obtain the segmented lung region. The proposed algorithm is trained and tested for 1,361 CT lung slices for the process of evaluating segmentation accuracy. An average of 98.50% is obtained as the segmentation accuracy for the input lung CT images.

scholarly journals ResBCDU-Net: A Deep Learning Framework for Lung CT Image Segmentation

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 268
Author(s):  
Yeganeh Jalali ◽  
Mansoor Fateh ◽  
Mohsen Rezvani ◽  
Vahid Abolghasemi ◽  
Mohammad Hossein Anisi
Keyword(s):  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Ct Images ◽  
Medical Image Segmentation ◽  
Great Success ◽  
Morphological Operations ◽  
Ct Image ◽  
Feature Maps ◽  
Learning Framework ◽  
Lung Ct

Lung CT image segmentation is a key process in many applications such as lung cancer detection. It is considered a challenging problem due to existing similar image densities in the pulmonary structures, different types of scanners, and scanning protocols. Most of the current semi-automatic segmentation methods rely on human factors therefore it might suffer from lack of accuracy. Another shortcoming of these methods is their high false-positive rate. In recent years, several approaches, based on a deep learning framework, have been effectively applied in medical image segmentation. Among existing deep neural networks, the U-Net has provided great success in this field. In this paper, we propose a deep neural network architecture to perform an automatic lung CT image segmentation process. In the proposed method, several extensive preprocessing techniques are applied to raw CT images. Then, ground truths corresponding to these images are extracted via some morphological operations and manual reforms. Finally, all the prepared images with the corresponding ground truth are fed into a modified U-Net in which the encoder is replaced with a pre-trained ResNet-34 network (referred to as Res BCDU-Net). In the architecture, we employ BConvLSTM (Bidirectional Convolutional Long Short-term Memory)as an advanced integrator module instead of simple traditional concatenators. This is to merge the extracted feature maps of the corresponding contracting path into the previous expansion of the up-convolutional layer. Finally, a densely connected convolutional layer is utilized for the contracting path. The results of our extensive experiments on lung CT images (LIDC-IDRI database) confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method where a dice coefficient index of 97.31% is achieved.

scholarly journals Deep Learning Based Depthwise Separable Model For Effective Diagnosis And Classification of Lung Ct Images

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1808-1819 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Noise Removal ◽  
Ct Images ◽  
Classification Model ◽  
Diagnosis And Classification ◽  
Effective Diagnosis ◽  
Lung Ct

Lung cancer is a serious illness which leads to increased mortality rate globally. The identification of lung cancer at the beginning stage is the probable method of improving the survival rate of the patients. Generally, Computed Tomography (CT) scan is applied for finding the location of the tumor and determines the stage of cancer. Existing works has presented an effective diagnosis classification model for CT lung images. This paper designs an effective diagnosis and classification model for CT lung images. The presented model involves different stages namely pre-processing, segmentation, feature extraction and classification. The initial stage includes an adaptive histogram based equalization (AHE) model for image enhancement and bilateral filtering (BF) model for noise removal. The pre-processed images are fed into the second stage of watershed segmentation model for effectively segment the images. Then, a deep learning based Xception model is applied for prominent feature extraction and the classification takes place by the use of logistic regression (LR) classifier. A comprehensive simulation is carried out to ensure the effective classification of the lung CT images using a benchmark dataset. The outcome implied the outstanding performance of the presented model on the applied test images.

scholarly journals Reducing False-Positives in Lung Nodules Detection Using Balanced Datasets

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinglun Liang ◽  
Guoliang Ye ◽  
Jianwen Guo ◽  
Qifan Huang ◽  
Shaohui Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Lung Cancer ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Pulmonary Nodules ◽  
Ct Images ◽  
False Positives ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Cad System ◽  
Nodule Detection ◽  
Diagnosis Of Lung Cancer ◽  
Lung Ct

Malignant pulmonary nodules are one of the main manifestations of lung cancer in early CT image screening. Since lung cancer may have no early obvious symptoms, it is important to develop a computer-aided detection (CAD) system to assist doctors to detect the malignant pulmonary nodules in the early stage of lung cancer CT diagnosis. Due to the recent successful applications of deep learning in image processing, more and more researchers have been trying to apply it to the diagnosis of pulmonary nodules. However, due to the ratio of nodules and non-nodules samples used in the training and testing datasets usually being different from the practical ratio of lung cancer, the CAD classification systems may easily produce higher false-positives while using this imbalanced dataset. This work introduces a filtering step to remove the irrelevant images from the dataset, and the results show that the false-positives can be reduced and the accuracy can be above 98%. There are two steps in nodule detection. Firstly, the images with pulmonary nodules are screened from the whole lung CT images of the patients. Secondly, the exact locations of pulmonary nodules will be detected using Faster R-CNN. Final results show that this method can effectively detect the pulmonary nodules in the CT images and hence potentially assist doctors in the early diagnosis of lung cancer.

Region of interest discovery using discriminative concrete autoencoder for COVID-19 lung CT images

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yupei Zhang ◽  
Yang Lei ◽  
Mingquan Lin ◽  
Walter Curran ◽  
Tian Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Region Of Interest ◽  
Ct Images ◽  
Lung Ct
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