Classification of Benign and Malignant Lung Nodules Based on Deep Convolutional Network Feature Extraction

With the rapid development of detection technology, CT imaging technology has been widely used in the early clinical diagnosis of lung nodules. However, accurate assessment of the nature of the nodule remains a challenging task due to the subjective nature of the radiologist. With the increasing amount of publicly available lung image data, it has become possible to use convolutional neural networks for benign and malignant classification of lung nodules. However, as the network depth increases, network training methods based on gradient descent usually lead to gradient dispersion. Therefore, we propose a novel deep convolutional network approach to classify the benignity and malignancy of lung nodules. Firstly, we segmented, extracted, and performed zero-phase component analysis whitening on images of lung nodules. Then, a multilayer perceptron was introduced into the structure to construct a deep convolutional network. Finally, the minibatch stochastic gradient descent method with a momentum coefficient is used to fine-tune the deep convolutional network to avoid the gradient dispersion. The 750 lung nodules in the lung image database are used for experimental verification. Classification accuracy of the proposed method can reach 96.0%. The experimental results show that the proposed method can provide an objective and efficient aid to solve the problem of classifying benign and malignant lung nodules in medical images.

Deep Convolution Neural Networks Learned Image Classification for Early Cancer Detection Using Lightweight

Cancer is uncontrolled cell growth in any part of the body. Early cancer detection aims to identify patients who exhibit symptoms early on in order to maximise their chances of a successful treatment. Cancer disease mortality is decreased through early detection and treatment. Numerous researchers proposed a variety of image processing and machine learning approaches for cancer detection. However, existing systems did not improve detection accuracy or efficiency. A Deep Convolutional Neural Learning Classifier Model based on the Least Mean Square Filterative Ricker Wavelet Transform (L-DCNLC) is proposed to address the aforementioned issues. The L-DCNLC Model's primary objective is to detect cancer earlier by utilising a fully connected max pooling deep convolutional network with increased accuracy and reduced time consumption. The fully connected max pooling deep convolutional network is composed of one input layer, three hidden layers, and one output layer. Initially, the input layer of the L-DCNLC Model considers the number of patient images in the database as input.

Automatic Noise Analysis on Still Life Chart

In this paper, we tackle the issue of estimating the noise level of a camera, on its processed still images and as perceived by the user. Commonly, the characterization of the noise level of a camera is done using objective metrics determined on charts containing uniform patches at a given condition. These methods can lead to inadequate characterizations of the noise of a camera because cameras often incorporate denoising algorithms that are more efficient on uniform areas than on areas containing details. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a method to estimate the perceived noise level on natural areas of a still-life chart. Our method is based on a deep convolutional network trained with ground truth quality scores provided by expert annotators. Our experimental evaluation shows that our approach strongly matches human evaluations.