The invention relates to a medical
image processing technology, and aims to provide an ultrasonic
thyroid nodule benign and malignant feature
visualization method based on
deep learning. The method comprises the following steps: collecting case data with both a
thyroid nodule ultrasonic image and a clinical operation
pathological result, distinguishing benign and malignant conditions, and markinga nodule region to generate a
mask image; selecting a basic structure of a deep
convolutional neural network, and performing segmentation pre-training on the
mask image data of all
thyroid nodules; initializing a basic network by using the
model parameters, and constructing a deep
convolutional neural network for identification; training and verifying in a folding intersection mode to obtain a benign and malignant recognition model; and inputting a test image, predicting an identification result by using the benign and malignant identification model, and generating a malignant feature
visualization image. According to the invention, the relation between the benign and malignant probability of the nodule and the
image area can be visually observed. A user can better analyze the image characteristics of the ultrasonic thyroid nodule, clinical puncture examination is further guided, and the success rate of a puncture operation is increased.