Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 59, Issue 8, 0800002(2022)

Application of Convolution Neural Network in Diagnosis of Thyroid Nodules

Xuanqi Wang1, Feng Yang1, Bin Cao2, Jing Liu1, Dejian Wei1, and Hui Cao1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1College of Intelligence and Information Engineering, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan , Shandong 250355, China
  • 2Shandong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan , Shandong 250000, China
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    Schematic of thyroid nodule detected by Faster RCNN
    Results of different thyroid nodule detection algorithms. (a) Xie et al[13]; (b) Fang et al[17]; (c) Yu et al[19]; (d) Wang et al[21]; (e) Li et al[23]; (f) Abdolali et al[24]
    Schematic of thyroid nodule segmentated by U-Net
    Caliper marks of thyroid nodules in ultrasound images[33]. (a) Transverse view of cross caliper; (b) longitudinal view of single caliper
    Results of some thyroid nodule segmentation algorithms. (a) Ying et al[30]; (b) Buda et al[33]; (c) Kumar et al[34]
    • Table 1. Performance comparison of different thyroid nodule detection algorithms

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      Table 1. Performance comparison of different thyroid nodule detection algorithms

      ReferenceMethodAverage Precision /%Recall /%Note
      Xie et al13SSD88.0890.08General nodule
      Fang et al17Faster RCNN92.7989.24General nodule
      Yu et al19Faster RCNN97.2093.70General nodule
      Wang et al21Faster RCNN88.80Papillary thyroid carcinoma
      Li et al23Faster RCNN93.50Papillary thyroid carcinoma
      Abdolali et al24Mask RCNN84.0079.00General nodule
    • Table 2. Performance comparison of different thyroid nodule segmentation algorithms

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      Table 2. Performance comparison of different thyroid nodule segmentation algorithms

      ReferenceMethodDice similarity coefficient
      Ying et al30FCN+U-Net0.9304
      Zhou et al31Mark-Guided U-Net0.9482
      Chu et al32Mark-Guided U-Net0.9576
      Buda et al33Faster RCNN+U-Net0.9310
      Kumar et al34MPCNN0.7600
    • Table 3. Performance comparison of thyroid nodule benign and malignant recognition models mentioned in this paper

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      Table 3. Performance comparison of thyroid nodule benign and malignant recognition models mentioned in this paper

      ReferenceMethodmAP /%Accuracy /%Sensitivity /%Specificity /%
      Moussa et al44ResNet-50\97.3380.6964.17
      Song et al45Inception-V3\\95.2/94.061.8/56.0
      Guan et al47Inception-V3\90.593.387.4
      Zhu et al48ResNet-18\93.7593.9692.68
      Zhang et al49GoogLeNet\96.04\\
      Wang et al50Inception-ResNet-v2(with attention-based feature aggregation network)\87.3284.22\
      Wang et al25YOLOv2(backbone: ResNet-50)85.9290.3190.589.91
      Ma et al26YOLOv3(backbone: DMRF-CNN)95.2395.2497.39\
      Ma et al54CNN+CNN\83.0282.4184.96
      Zheng et al55Xception+LSTM+CNN\94.30\\
      Li et al58ResNet-50+Darknet-19\

      89.80

      86.50

      85.70

      93.40

      84.70

      84.30

      86.1

      87.8

      86.9

      Liu et al59VGG-16+EEGNet\89.688.591.0
      Liang et al61ResNet-50+AlexNet+VGG-16\96.094.197.7
      Song et al27SSD+AlexNet98.292.194.196.2
      Liu et al28Multi-scale detection network (backbone:ResNet-50)+Multi-branch classification network (based on ZFNet)94.797.198.295.1
    • Table 4. Comparison of calcification recognition accuracy between traditional algorithm and CNN

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      Table 4. Comparison of calcification recognition accuracy between traditional algorithm and CNN

      ReferenceMethodAccuracy /%
      Chen et al64Threshold segmentation algorithm based on brightness feature62.59
      Choi et al65Local Otsu threshold algorithm67.85
      Han et al66Maximum extremum stable region algorithm69.72
      Zuo et al67AlexNet(CNN)86.06
      Zhang et al68CS-AGnet(CNN)92.10
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    Xuanqi Wang, Feng Yang, Bin Cao, Jing Liu, Dejian Wei, Hui Cao. Application of Convolution Neural Network in Diagnosis of Thyroid Nodules[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2022, 59(8): 0800002

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    Category: Reviews

    Received: Mar. 16, 2021

    Accepted: Apr. 22, 2021

    Published Online: Apr. 18, 2022

    The Author Email: Cao Hui (caohui63@163.com)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP202259.0800002

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