scholarly journals Segmenting Nodules of Lung Tomography Image with Level Set Algorithm and Neural Network

Author(s):  
Soon Yee Chong ◽  
Min Keng Tan ◽  
Kiam Beng Yeo ◽  
Mohd Yusof Ibrahim ◽  
Xiaoxi Hao ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter M. Maloca ◽  
Philipp L. Müller ◽  
Aaron Y. Lee ◽  
Adnan Tufail ◽  
Konstantinos Balaskas ◽  
...  

AbstractMachine learning has greatly facilitated the analysis of medical data, while the internal operations usually remain intransparent. To better comprehend these opaque procedures, a convolutional neural network for optical coherence tomography image segmentation was enhanced with a Traceable Relevance Explainability (T-REX) technique. The proposed application was based on three components: ground truth generation by multiple graders, calculation of Hamming distances among graders and the machine learning algorithm, as well as a smart data visualization (‘neural recording’). An overall average variability of 1.75% between the human graders and the algorithm was found, slightly minor to 2.02% among human graders. The ambiguity in ground truth had noteworthy impact on machine learning results, which could be visualized. The convolutional neural network balanced between graders and allowed for modifiable predictions dependent on the compartment. Using the proposed T-REX setup, machine learning processes could be rendered more transparent and understandable, possibly leading to optimized applications.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adil Khadidos ◽  
Alaa O. Khadidos ◽  
Srihari Kannan ◽  
Yuvaraj Natarajan ◽  
Sachi Nandan Mohanty ◽  
...  

In this paper, a data mining model on a hybrid deep learning framework is designed to diagnose the medical conditions of patients infected with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) virus. The hybrid deep learning model is designed as a combination of convolutional neural network (CNN) and recurrent neural network (RNN) and named as DeepSense method. It is designed as a series of layers to extract and classify the related features of COVID-19 infections from the lungs. The computerized tomography image is used as an input data, and hence, the classifier is designed to ease the process of classification on learning the multidimensional input data using the Expert Hidden layers. The validation of the model is conducted against the medical image datasets to predict the infections using deep learning classifiers. The results show that the DeepSense classifier offers accuracy in an improved manner than the conventional deep and machine learning classifiers. The proposed method is validated against three different datasets, where the training data are compared with 70%, 80%, and 90% training data. It specifically provides the quality of the diagnostic method adopted for the prediction of COVID-19 infections in a patient.


2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (23) ◽  
pp. 235021
Author(s):  
Wenzhao Zhao ◽  
Hongjian Wang ◽  
Hartmut Gemmeke ◽  
Koen W A van Dongen ◽  
Torsten Hopp ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuofu Deng ◽  
Qingzhe Guo ◽  
Zhiliang Zhu

Segmentation of liver tumors plays an important role in the choice of therapeutic strategies for liver disease and treatment monitoring. In this paper, we generalize the process of a level set with a novel algorithm of dynamic regulation to energy functional parameters. The presented method is fully automatic once the tumor has been detected. First, a 3D convolutional neural network with dense layers for classification is used to estimate current contour location relative to the tumor boundary. Second, the output 3D CNN probabilities can dynamically regulate parameters of the level set functional over the process of segmentation. Finally, for full automation, appropriate initializations and local window size are generated based on the current contour position probabilities. We demonstrate the proposed method on the dataset of MICCAI 2017 LiTS Challenge and 3DIRCADb that include low contrast and heterogeneous tumors as well as noisy images. To illustrate the strength of our method, we evaluated it against the state-of-the-art methods. Compared with the level set framework with fixed parameters, our method performed better significantly with an average DICE improvement of 0.15. We also analyzed a challenging dataset 3DIRCADb of tumors and obtained a competitive DICE of 0.85±0.06 with the proposed method.


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