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Lung nodule detection and classification from Thorax CT-scan using RetinaNet with transfer learning

8 Apr 2020Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences 2020 4archive 2025-07-28

Ivan William Harsono, Suryadiputra Liawatimena, Tjeng Wawan Cenggoro

Lung malignancy is one of the most common causes of death in the world caused by malignant lung nodules which commonly diagnosed radiologically by radiologists. Unfortunately, the continuous flow of medical images in hospitals drives radiologists to prioritize quantity over quality. This work condition allows misinterpretation especially on ambiguous anatomical structures that resemble lung nodule for example enlarged lymph nodes and resulting in decreasing sensitivity and accuracy of malignant lung nodule detections and late diagnosis proven to be fatal to patients. To address the problem, this paper proposed a novel lung nodule detection and classification model using one stage detector called as “I3DR-Net.” The model was formed by combining pre-trained natural images weight of Inflated 3D ConvNet (I3D) backbone with feature pyramid network to multi-scale 3D Thorax Computed tomography scan (CT-scan) dataset. I3DR-Net able to produce remarkable results on lung nodule texture detection task with mAP 49.61% and 22.86%, and area under curve (AUC) 81.84% and 70.36% for public and private dataset. Additionally, I3DR-Net successfully outperform previous state-of-the-art Retina U-Net and U-FRCNN + mean average precision (mAP) by 7.9% and 7.2% (57.71% VS 49.8% VS 50.5%) for malignant nodule detection and classification task.

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Lung Nodule 3D ClassificationLung Nodule 3D DetectionLung Nodule ClassificationLung Nodule DetectionTransfer Learning

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Lung Nodule 3D Classification LIDC-IDRI I3DR-Net AUC 81.84 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Lung Nodule 3D Detection LIDC-IDRI I3DR-Net AUC 81.84 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Lung Nodule 3D Detection LIDC-IDRI I3DR-Net Sensitivity 94.12 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Lung Nodule 3D Detection LIDC-IDRI I3DR-Net mean average precision 49.61 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Lung Nodule Classification LIDC-IDRI I3DR-Net AUC 81.84 #8 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Lung Nodule Detection LIDC-IDRI I3DR-Net AUC 81.84 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Lung Nodule Detection LIDC-IDRI I3DR-Net Sensitivity 94.12 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Lung Nodule Detection LIDC-IDRI I3DR-Net mean average precision 49.61 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report

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1x1 ConvolutionConcatenated Skip ConnectionConvolutionFPNFocal LossInception ModuleMax PoolingReLURetinaNetU-Net

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