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ArticleComputational intelligence and neuroscience2021

Automatic Recognition and Classification System of Thyroid Nodules in CT Images Based on CNN.

Wenjun Li, Siyi Cheng, Kai Qian, Keqiang Yue, Hao Liu

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Article in Computational intelligence and neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Wenjun LiKey Laboratory of RF Circuits and Systems, Ministry of Education, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6788-3256
Siyi ChengKey Laboratory of RF Circuits and Systems, Ministry of Education, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2822-6653
Kai QianDepartment of Radiology, The No. 1 People's Hospital of Pinghu, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0593-9589
Keqiang YueKey Laboratory of RF Circuits and Systems, Ministry of Education, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0880-9798
Hao LiuKey Laboratory of RF Circuits and Systems, Ministry of Education, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4700-7755
Hangzhou Dianzi University · CNFirst Hospital of Jiaxing · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thyroid nodule lesions are one of the most common lesions of the thyroid; the incidence rate has been the highest in the past thirty years. X-ray computed tomography (CT) plays an increasingly important role in the diagnosis of thyroid diseases. Nonetheless, as a result of the artifact and high complexity of thyroid CT image, the traditional machine learning method cannot be applied to CT image processing. In this paper, an end-to-end thyroid nodule automatic recognition and classification system is designed based on CNN. An improved Eff-Unet segmentation network is used to segment thyroid nodules as ROI. The image processing algorithm optimizes the ROI region and divides the nodules. A low-level and high-level feature fusion classification network CNN-F is proposed to classify the benign and malignant nodules. After each module is connected in series with the algorithm, the automatic classification of each nodule can be realized. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed end-to-end thyroid nodule automatic recognition and classification system has excellent performance in diagnosing thyroid diseases. In the test set, the segmentation IOU reaches 0.855, and the classification output accuracy reaches 85.92%.

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Thyroid NoduleAlgorithmsHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMachine LearningTomography, X-Ray Computed

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