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Lung nodule detection and classification

A computer assisted method of detecting and classifying lung nodules within a set of CT images includes performing body contour, airway, lung and esophagus segmentation to identify the regions of the CT images in which to search for potential lung nodules. The lungs are processed to identify the left and right sides of the lungs and each side of the lung is divided into subregions including upper, middle and lower subregions and central, intermediate and peripheral subregions. The computer analyzes each of the lung regions to detect and identify a three-dimensional vessel tree representing the blood vessels at or near the mediastinum. The computer then detects objects that are attached to the lung wall or to the vessel tree to assure that these objects are not eliminated from consideration as potential nodules. Thereafter, the computer performs a pixel similarity analysis on the appropriate regions within the CT images to detect potential nodules and performs one or more expert analysis techniques using the features of the potential nodules to determine whether each of the potential nodules is or is not a lung nodule. Thereafter, the computer uses further features, such as speculation features, growth features, etc. in one or more expert analysis techniques to classify each detected nodule as being either benign or malignant. The computer then displays the detection and classification results to the radiologist to assist the radiologist in interpreting the CT exam for the patient.
Owner:RGT UNIV OF MICHIGAN

Pulmonary nodule segmentation method based on Hession matrix and three-dimensional shape indexes

The present invention discloses a pulmonary nodule segmentation method based on the Hession matrix and three-dimensional shape indexes. According to the method, medical CT images are fully utilized; sequential pulmonary parenchymas are segmented through using an optimal threshold according to the gray values of sequential CT images, and the volume data of the three-dimensional pulmonary parenchymas are constructed; the Hession matrix feature values of each voxel point in the volume data of the three-dimensional pulmonary parenchymas are calculated; the three-dimensional shape indexes are constructed according to the shape features of a three-dimensional nodule model and on the basis of the Hession matrix feature values and two-dimensional shape indexes; and a three-dimensional sphere-like filter, namely, a 3D shape index nodule detection function is constructed finally and is adopted to perform nodule detection on the three-dimensional volume data of the pulmonary parenchymas, and with detected nodule regions adopted as a plurality of seed points of region growth, three-dimensional segmentation is performed on nodules on the basis of a confidence-based region growing algorithm. The method of the invention is simple in operation, can automatically detect and segment different types of suspected pulmonary nodules and has high stability and high accuracy.
Owner:TAIYUAN UNIV OF TECH

Method and device for detecting image nodules

The invention discloses a method and a device for detecting image nodules, which comprises the following steps: obtaining a nodular image and a three-dimensional coordinate of a candidate nodule in the nodular image; determining ROI containing the candidate nodule from the nodule image according to the three-dimensional coordinate of the candidate nodule; determining the confidence coefficient ofthe candidate nodule according to the ROI and a nodule detection model; filtering out a false-positive candidate module in the candidate nodule, the confidence coefficient of which is greater than thethreshold according to the candidate nodule, the confidence coefficient of which is greater than the threshold, a segmentation result of the body part where the candidate nodule is located and the three-dimensional coordinate of the candidate nodule; and determining the nodule in the nodular image and the confidence coefficient corresponding to the nodule. The convolutional neural network is usedfor training the nodule image of the marked nodule region to obtain the nodule detection model; the ROI is input to the nodule detection model to obtain the confidence coefficient of the candidate nodule; the nodule detection efficiency is improved; and the false-active nodule is filtered out after the nodule is detected, thereby improving the nodule detection accuracy.
Owner:HANGZHOU YITU MEDIAL TECH CO LTD

Tissue nodule detection and tissue nodule detection model training method, apparatus, device, and system

This application relates to a tissue nodule detection and tissue nodule detection model training method, apparatus, device, storage medium and system. The method for training a tissue nodule detection model includes: obtaining source domain data and target domain data, the source domain data comprising a source domain image and an image annotation, the target domain data comprising a target image, and the image annotation being used for indicating location information of a tissue nodule in the source domain image; performing feature extraction on the source domain image using a neural network model to obtain a source domain sampling feature, performing feature extraction on the target image using the neural network model to obtain a target sampling feature, and determining a model result according to the source domain sampling feature using the neural network model; determining a distance parameter between the source domain data and the target domain data according to the source domain sampling feature and the target sampling feature, the distance parameter being a parameter describing a magnitude of a data difference between the source domain data and the target domain data; determining, according to the model result and the image annotation, a loss function value corresponding to the source domain image; and training the neural network model to obtain a tissue nodule detection model by iteratively reducing a combination of the loss function value and the distance parameter. In this way, the detection accuracy can be improved.
Owner:TENCENT TECH (SHENZHEN) CO LTD
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