IEEE transactions on medical imaging
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IEEE Trans Med Imaging · Apr 2019
Knowledge-based Collaborative Deep Learning for Benign-Malignant Lung Nodule Classification on Chest CT.
The accurate identification of malignant lung nodules on chest CT is critical for the early detection of lung cancer, which also offers patients the best chance of cure. Deep learning methods have recently been successfully introduced to computer vision problems, although substantial challenges remain in the detection of malignant nodules due to the lack of large training data sets. In this paper, we propose a multi-view knowledge-based collaborative (MV-KBC) deep model to separate malignant from benign nodules using limited chest CT data. ⋯ We tested our method on the benchmark LIDC-IDRI data set and compared it to the five state-of-the-art classification approaches. Our results show that the MV-KBC model achieved an accuracy of 91.60% for lung nodule classification with an AUC of 95.70%. These results are markedly superior to the state-of-the-art approaches.