Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 40, Issue 24, 2410002(2020)

Method for Identifying Benign and Malignant Pulmonary Nodules Combing Deep Convolutional Neural Network and Hand-Crafted Features

Dachuan Gao and Shengdong Nie*
Author Affiliations
  • School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200082, China
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    Figures & Tables(15)
    Flow chart of proposed method
    Schematic of nodule fusion method. (a)-(d) Pulmonary nodule areas are manually segmented by four radiologists; (e) pulmonary nodule area segmented by nodule fusion method
    Architecture of 3D-Inception-ResNet model
    Inception-ResNet module
    Visualization map of features
    Four typical nodules in LIDC-IDRI database. (a)-(d) 2D slices of nodules; (e)-(h) 3D displays of corresponding nodules
    ROC curves in different classifiers. (a) RF; (b) SVM
    Classic CNN architecture. (a)3D-DenseNet model; (b) 3D-ResNet model
    • Table 1. Description of experiment setting

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      Table 1. Description of experiment setting

      ExperimentSub experimentDescription
      aClassification based on traditional hand-crafted features
      1bClassification based on 3D-Inception-ResNet model
      cClassification combining CNN features and hand-crafted features
      dClassification on the Shanghai Chest Hospital dataset
      2Classification under three different sample configuration schemes
      3Contrast of different architectures (including DenseNet and ResNet)
    • Table 2. Configuration scheme of three pulmonary nodule samples

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      Table 2. Configuration scheme of three pulmonary nodule samples

      DescriptionConfigurationNumber of benignnodulesNumber of malignantnodules
      ‘1’, ‘2’ as benign and ‘4’, ‘5’ as malignant1380300
      ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’ as benign and ‘4’, ‘5’ as malignant2736300
      ‘1’, ‘2’ as benign and ‘3’,‘4’, ‘5’ as malignant3380656
    • Table 3. Comparison of classification results in experiment 1

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      Table 3. Comparison of classification results in experiment 1

      MethodA /%SEN /%SPE /%AUC /%
      Hand-crafted features+Gaussian-NB89.6985.1891.4395.19
      Hand-crafted features+KNN90.7283.3394.0395.54
      Hand-crafted features+RF91.6489.4293.0696.78
      Hand-crafted features+LDA91.7586.2194.1296.18
      Hand-crafted features+SVM91.8188.6694.5996.53
      3D-Inception-ResNet91.4492.8791.0996.27
      Combined features+Gaussian-NB91.7586.2194.1195.99
      Combined features+KNN91.8188.6694.5996.53
      Combined features+RF92.7592.1293.3497.11
      Combined features+LDA90.7288.4691.5596.46
      Combined features+SVM94.9890.0297.0397.43
    • Table 4. Classification results of SCH dataset

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      Table 4. Classification results of SCH dataset

      DatasetA /%SEN /%SPE /%AUC /%
      LIDC-IDRI94.9890.0297.0397.43
      SCH90.9188.1095.8395.58
    • Table 5. Comparison of classification results in three different sample configuration schemes

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      Table 5. Comparison of classification results in three different sample configuration schemes

      ConfigurationMethodA /%SEN /%SPE /%AUC /%
      Configuration 1Combined features+RF92.7592.1293.3497.11
      Combined features+SVM94.8990.0297.0397.43
      Configuration 2Combined features+RF86.0470.8790.2091.70
      Combined features + SVM85.8670.2090.5591.12
      Configuration 3Combined features+RF80.3885.1172.3787.26
      Combined features+SVM79.7382.3574.9185.31
    • Table 6. Comparison of classification results of different CNN architectures

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      Table 6. Comparison of classification results of different CNN architectures

      ArchitectureA /%SEN /%SPE /%AUC /%
      3D-DenseNet89.6987.1094.5592.64
      3D-DenseNet combining hand-crafted features90.7290.0089.4794.20
      3D-ResNet84.6976.7490.9188.13
      3D-ResNet combining hand-crafted features90.8290.4891.0795.38
      3D-Inception-ResNet91.4492.8791.0996.27
      3D-Inception-ResNet combining hand-crafted features94.9890.0297.0397.43
    • Table 7. Comparison of the results of different methods

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      Table 7. Comparison of the results of different methods

      MethodNumber of nodulesA /%SEN /%SPE /%AUC /%
      Method in Ref.[26]66493.2087.9098.5097.10
      Method in Ref.[27]122685.62±2.3781.21±6.2089.56±1.1790.45±2.58
      Proposed method103694.9890.0297.0397.43
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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Jul. 13, 2020

    Accepted: Sep. 15, 2020

    Published Online: Nov. 23, 2020

    The Author Email: Nie Shengdong (nsd4647@163.com)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS202040.2410002

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