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Efficient pulmonary nodules classification using radiomics and different artificial intelligence strategies
Mohamed Saied1, Mourad Raafat2, Sherif Yehia1
1Medical Biophysics, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.
Insights Into Imaging
|May 18, 2023
Summary
Deep learning models, particularly DenseNet-121, significantly outperformed traditional methods in classifying pulmonary nodules from CT scans. These AI approaches enhance diagnostic accuracy and efficiency in lung cancer detection.
Area of Science:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Medical Imaging
- Machine Learning
Background:
- Pulmonary nodule classification is crucial for early lung cancer detection.
- Accurate classification aids in treatment planning and patient outcomes.
- Developing efficient AI models for nodule analysis is an ongoing research area.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore and develop artificial intelligence (AI) approaches for efficient pulmonary nodule classification using CT scans.
- To compare the performance of traditional machine learning (ML) methods with deep learning (DL) techniques.
- To identify the most effective AI models for pulmonary nodule classification.
Main Methods:
- Utilized the LIDC-IDRI dataset comprising 1007 nodules from 551 patients.
- Preprocessed nodule images (64x64 PNG) to remove non-nodular structures.
- Extracted texture features (Haralick, LBP) for ML, followed by PCA for feature selection.
- Developed a simple Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and applied transfer learning with pre-trained models (VGG-16/19, DenseNet-121/169, ResNet) for DL.
Main Results:
- Statistical ML achieved optimal AUROC of 0.885 (Random Forest) and accuracy of 0.819 (SVM).
- Deep learning models demonstrated superior performance: DenseNet-121 reached 90.39% accuracy.
- Highest AUROC (96.0%) achieved with simple CNN; best sensitivity (90.32%) with DenseNet-169; best specificity (93.65%) with DenseNet-121 and ResNet-152V2.
Conclusions:
- Deep learning with transfer learning offers significant advantages over statistical ML for pulmonary nodule classification.
- DenseNet-121 and SVM models exhibited the best performance among the evaluated methods.
- Future improvements are possible with larger datasets and 3D volumetric analysis for enhanced lung cancer diagnosis.
