Increasing CAD system efficacy for lung texture analysis using a convolutional network

Sebastian Roberto Tarando; Catalin Fetita; Alex Faccinetto; Pierre-Yves Brillet

doi:10.1117/12.2217752

24 March 2016 Increasing CAD system efficacy for lung texture analysis using a convolutional network

Sebastian Roberto Tarando, Catalin Fetita, Alex Faccinetto, Pierre-Yves Brillet

Proceedings Volume 9785, Medical Imaging 2016: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 97850Q (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2217752
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The infiltrative lung diseases are a class of irreversible, non-neoplastic lung pathologies requiring regular follow-up with CT imaging. Quantifying the evolution of the patient status imposes the development of automated classification tools for lung texture. For the large majority of CAD systems, such classification relies on a two-dimensional analysis of axial CT images. In a previously developed CAD system, we proposed a fully-3D approach exploiting a multi-scale morphological analysis which showed good performance in detecting diseased areas, but with a major drawback consisting of sometimes overestimating the pathological areas and mixing different type of lung patterns. This paper proposes a combination of the existing CAD system with the classification outcome provided by a convolutional network, specifically tuned-up, in order to increase the specificity of the classification and the confidence to diagnosis. The advantage of using a deep learning approach is a better regularization of the classification output (because of a deeper insight into a given pathological class over a large series of samples) where the previous system is extra-sensitive due to the multi-scale response on patient-specific, localized patterns. In a preliminary evaluation, the combined approach was tested on a 10 patient database of various lung pathologies, showing a sharp increase of true detections.

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Sebastian Roberto Tarando, Catalin Fetita, Alex Faccinetto, and Pierre-Yves Brillet "Increasing CAD system efficacy for lung texture analysis using a convolutional network", Proc. SPIE 9785, Medical Imaging 2016: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 97850Q (24 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2217752

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