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ArticleJournal of imaging2025

Lung Nodule Malignancy Classification Integrating Deep and Radiomic Features in a Three-Way Attention-Based Fusion Module.

Sadaf Khademi, Shahin Heidarian, Parnian Afshar, Arash Mohammadi, Abdul Sidiqi, Elsie T Nguyen, Balaji Ganeshan, Anastasia Oikonomou

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8 authors.

Sadaf KhademiConcordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada.
Shahin HeidarianDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada.
Parnian AfsharConcordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada.
Arash MohammadiConcordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-1972-7923
Abdul SidiqiDepartment of Medical Imaging, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada.
Elsie T NguyenDepartment of Medical Imaging, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 2N2, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-6074-2968
Balaji GaneshanInstitute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London, 235 Euston Road, London NW1 2BU, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1386-0531
Anastasia OikonomouDepartment of Medical Imaging, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6996-237X

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Abstract

In this study, we propose a novel hybrid framework for assessing the invasiveness of an in-house dataset of 114 pathologically proven lung adenocarcinomas presenting as subsolid nodules on Computed Tomography (CT). Nodules were classified into group 1 (G1), which included atypical adenomatous hyperplasia, adenocarcinoma in situ, and minimally invasive adenocarcinomas, and group 2 (G2), which included invasive adenocarcinomas. Our approach includes a three-way Integration of Visual, Spatial, and Temporal features with Attention, referred to as I-VISTA, obtained from three processing algorithms designed based on Deep Learning (DL) and radiomic models, leading to a more comprehensive analysis of nodule variations. The aforementioned processing algorithms are arranged in the following three parallel paths: (i) The Shifted Window (SWin) Transformer path, which is a hierarchical vision Transformer that extracts nodules' related spatial features; (ii) The Convolutional Auto-Encoder (CAE) Transformer path, which captures informative features related to inter-slice relations via a modified Transformer encoder architecture; and (iii) a 3D Radiomic-based path that collects quantitative features based on texture analysis of each nodule. Extracted feature sets are then passed through the Criss-Cross attention fusion module to discover the most informative feature patterns and classify nodules type. The experiments were evaluated based on a ten-fold cross-validation scheme. I-VISTA framework achieved the best performance of overall accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity (mean ± std) of 93.93 ± 6.80%, 92.66 ± 9.04%, and 94.99 ± 7.63% with an Area under the ROC Curve (AUC) of 0.93 ± 0.08 for lung nodule classification among ten folds. The hybrid framework integrating DL and hand-crafted 3D Radiomic model outperformed the standalone DL and hand-crafted 3D Radiomic model in differentiating G1 from G2 subsolid nodules identified on CT.

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attention fusionauto-encoderdeep learninglung cancermalignancy classificationvision transformer

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PMCPMC12565449

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