Artificial neural network for pulmonary nodule detection: preliminary human observer comparison

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seema Garg ◽  
Carey E. Floyd, Jr. ◽  
Carl E. Ravin
Diagnostics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Li ◽  
Bolette Mikela Vilmun ◽  
Jonathan Frederik Carlsen ◽  
Elisabeth Albrecht-Beste ◽  
Carsten Ammitzbøl Lauridsen ◽  
...  

The aim of this study was to systematically review the performance of deep learning technology in detecting and classifying pulmonary nodules on computed tomography (CT) scans that were not from the Lung Image Database Consortium and Image Database Resource Initiative (LIDC-IDRI) database. Furthermore, we explored the difference in performance when the deep learning technology was applied to test datasets different from the training datasets. Only peer-reviewed, original research articles utilizing deep learning technology were included in this study, and only results from testing on datasets other than the LIDC-IDRI were included. We searched a total of six databases: EMBASE, PubMed, Cochrane Library, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), Scopus, and Web of Science. This resulted in 1782 studies after duplicates were removed, and a total of 26 studies were included in this systematic review. Three studies explored the performance of pulmonary nodule detection only, 16 studies explored the performance of pulmonary nodule classification only, and 7 studies had reports of both pulmonary nodule detection and classification. Three different deep learning architectures were mentioned amongst the included studies: convolutional neural network (CNN), massive training artificial neural network (MTANN), and deep stacked denoising autoencoder extreme learning machine (SDAE-ELM). The studies reached a classification accuracy between 68–99.6% and a detection accuracy between 80.6–94%. Performance of deep learning technology in studies using different test and training datasets was comparable to studies using same type of test and training datasets. In conclusion, deep learning was able to achieve high levels of accuracy, sensitivity, and/or specificity in detecting and/or classifying nodules when applied to pulmonary CT scans not from the LIDC-IDRI database.


2020 ◽  
Vol Volume 12 ◽  
pp. 2979-2992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Ming Xu ◽  
Teng Zhang ◽  
Hai Xu ◽  
Liang Qi ◽  
Wei Zhang ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1551-1559
Author(s):  
Yudu Zhao ◽  
Jun Ma ◽  
Zhenwei Peng ◽  
Hao Xia ◽  
Honglin Wan

Early screening for pulmonary nodules is currently an important means for reducing lung cancer mortality. In recent years, three-dimensional convolutional neural networks have achieved great success in the field of pulmonary nodule detection. This paper proposes a pulmonary nodule detection method based on a threedimensional multiscale convolutional neural network with channel and spatial attention. First, a multiscale module is designed to extract the image features at different scales. Second, a channel and spatial attention module is designed to mine the correlation information between features from the perspective of space and channel. Then the extracted features are sent to a pyramid-like fusion mechanism, so that the features contain both deep semantic information and shallow position information, which is conducive to object positioning and bounding box regression. In general, the experiments on the LUng Nodule Analysis 2016 (LUNA16) dataset show that the average free-response receiver operating characteristic (FROC) score is 0.846. Compared with other current advanced methods, the method is competitive and effective.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Michèle Dufour ◽  
Marc Lanovaz ◽  
Patrick Cardinal

Both researchers and practitioners often rely on direct observation to measure and monitor behavior. When these behaviors are too complex or numerous to be measured in vivo, relying on direct observations using human observers increases the costs of conducting research and monitoring interventions in practice. To address this issue, we conducted a proof of concept examining whether artificial intelligence could measure vocal stereotypy in individuals with autism. More specifically, we used an artificial neural network with over 1,500 minutes of audio data from eight different individuals to train and test models to measure vocal stereotypy. Our results showed that our artificial neural network performed adequately (i.e., session-by-session correlation near or above .80 with a human observer) in measuring engagement in vocal stereotypy for six of eight participants. That said, researchers need to conduct additional research to further improve the generalizability of the approach.


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