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ReviewJournal of digital imaging2018

Characterization of Pulmonary Nodules Based on Features of Margin Sharpness and Texture.

José Raniery Ferreira, Marcelo Costa Oliveira, Paulo Mazzoncini de Azevedo-Marques

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Review in Journal of digital imaging, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

José Raniery FerreiraCenter of Imaging Sciences and Medical Physics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Av. dos Bandeirantes, 3900, Monte Alegre, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, 14049-900, Brazil. jose.raniery@usp.br.ORCID 0000-0002-8202-588X
Marcelo Costa OliveiraInstitute of Computing, Federal University of Alagoas, Av. Lourival Melo Mota, Cidade Universitária, Maceió, Alagoas, 57072-900, Brazil.
Paulo Mazzoncini de Azevedo-MarquesCenter of Imaging Sciences and Medical Physics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Av. dos Bandeirantes, 3900, Monte Alegre, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, 14049-900, Brazil.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the world, and one of its manifestations occurs with the appearance of pulmonary nodules. The classification of pulmonary nodules may be a complex task to specialists due to temporal, subjective, and qualitative aspects. Therefore, it is important to integrate computational tools to the early pulmonary nodule classification process, since they have the potential to characterize objectively and quantitatively the lesions. In this context, the goal of this work is to perform the classification of pulmonary nodules based on image features of texture and margin sharpness. Computed tomography scans were obtained from a publicly available image database. Texture attributes were extracted from a co-occurrence matrix obtained from the nodule volume. Margin sharpness attributes were extracted from perpendicular lines drawn over the borders on all nodule slices. Feature selection was performed by different algorithms. Classification was performed by several machine learning classifiers and assessed by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy. Highest classification performance was obtained by a random forest algorithm with all 48 extracted features. However, a decision tree using only two selected features obtained statistically equivalent performance on sensitivity and specificity.

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Image Interpretation, Computer-AssistedPattern Recognition, AutomatedArea Under CurveDecision TreesFemaleHumansLung NeoplasmsMachine LearningMaleMultiple Pulmonary NodulesROC CurveSensitivity and SpecificitySolitary Pulmonary NoduleTomography, X-Ray ComputedImage classificationLung cancerPattern recognitionPulmonary nodule

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PMID29047033
PMCPMC6113151

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