Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 50, Issue 2, 65(2021)

Segmentation of Lung Nodules in CT Images Using Improved U-Net++

Hong HUANG1... Rongfei LÜ1, Junli TAO2, Yuan LI1 and Jiuquan ZHANG2 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Technique System of the Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Chongqing400044, China
  • 2Department of Radiology, Chongqing University Cancer Hospital & Chongqing Cancer Institute & Chongqing Cancer Hospital, Chongqing400030, China
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    Comparison of multi-level feature encoding-decoding structure
    The overall structure of the proposed iU-Net++ algorithm
    Weighted aggregation block
    Segmentation data sets used in the experiment
    The preprocessing procedure
    Comparison of segmentation results of pulmonary nodules in LIDC dataset
    Loss-DICE curves of iU-Net ++ algorithm during training process in LIDC dataset
    Comparison of DICE change curves during network training in LIDC dataset
    Comparison of segmentation results of pulmonary nodules in CQUCH-LC dataset
    Loss-DICE curves of iU-Net ++ algorithm during training process in CQUCH-LC dataset
    Comparison of DICE change curves during network training in CQUCH-LC dataset
    • Table 1. Segmentation results of multiple metrics on the testing set of LIDC dataset by different algorithms

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      Table 1. Segmentation results of multiple metrics on the testing set of LIDC dataset by different algorithms

      AlgorithmIoUDICESensitivityPrecision
      U-Net82.0387.6489.7689.91
      U-Net++ w/ DS84.2488.9690.4691.10
      U-Net++ w/o DS83.1788.5089.5090.90
      iU-Net++87.4090.8391.9492.17
    • Table 2. Segmentation results of multiple metrics on the testing set of CQUCH-LC dataset by different algorithms

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      Table 2. Segmentation results of multiple metrics on the testing set of CQUCH-LC dataset by different algorithms

      AlgorithmIoUDICESensitivityPrecision
      U-Net75.0083.8687.3784.21
      U-Net++ w/ DS78.3186.0987.3788.31
      U-Net++ w/o DS77.9786.2287.7087.19
      iU-Net++80.5988.2389.1589.11
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    Hong HUANG, Rongfei LÜ, Junli TAO, Yuan LI, Jiuquan ZHANG. Segmentation of Lung Nodules in CT Images Using Improved U-Net++[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2021, 50(2): 65

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    Category: Image Processing

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    Published Online: Aug. 26, 2021

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    DOI:10.3788/gzxb20215002.0210001

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