Automated detection of pulmonary nodules in PET/CT images: Ensemble false-positive reduction using a convolutional neural network technique

Medical Physics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2821-2827

  Teramoto, Atsushi ^a   Fujita, Hiroshi ^b   Yamamuro, Osamu ^c   Tamaki, Tsuneo ^c  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c East Nagoya Imaging Diagnosis Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

computer aided detection; convolutional neural network; false positive reduction; lung; nodule; PET CT

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVOLUTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NEURAL NETWORKS;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION; CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK; FALSE POSITIVE; FALSE-POSITIVE REDUCTION; LUNG; NEURAL NETWORK TECHNIQUES; NODULE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY/COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; PULMONARY NODULES;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATION; CANCER SCREENING; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK; FEMALE; FILTER; HUMAN; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTRON; PET SCANNER; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; WHOLE BODY CT; WHOLE BODY PET; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION STUDY; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84969776874     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: 24734209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4948498     Document Type: Article

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