A quantitative analysis system of pulmonary nodules CT image for lung cancer risk classification

Vanbang Le, Yu Zhu, Dawei Yang, Bingbing Zheng, Xiaodong Ren

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Abstract

To improve the classification performance for lung nodule, we proposed a lung nodule CT image feature extraction method. The approach designed multi-directional distribution features to represent nodules in different risk stages effectively. First, the reference map is constructed using integral image, and then K-Means approach is performed to clustering the reference map and calculate its label map. The density distribution map of lung nodule image was generated after calculate the gray scale density distribution level for each pixel. An exponential function was designed to weighting the angular histogram for each components of the distribution map. Then, quantitative measurement was performed by Random Forest classifier. The evaluation dataset is the lung CT database which provided by Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital (ZSDB), the nodule risk categories were AAH, AIS, MIA, and IA. In the result the AUCs are 0.9771, 0.9917, 0.9590, 0.9971, and accuracy are 0.7478, 0.9167, 0.7450, 0.9567 for AAH, AIS, MIA and IA respectively. The experiments show that the proposed method performs well and is effective to improve the classification performance of pulmonary nodules.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDigital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication - 14th International Forum, IFTC 2017, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsXiaokang Yang, Guangtao Zhai, Jun Zhou
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages12-24
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9789811081071
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event14th International Forum of Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2017 - Shanghai, China
Duration: 8 Nov 20179 Nov 2017

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume815
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Conference

Conference14th International Forum of Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period8/11/179/11/17

Keywords

  • Angular histogram
  • Exponential weighting
  • Gray scale density distribution
  • Lung CT image
  • Nodule classification

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