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Distinguishing Adenocarcinomas From Granulomas in The CT Scan of The Chest: Performance Degradation Evaluation in The Automatic Segmentation Framework
Mehdi Teimouri
University of Tehran
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ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4662-5535
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Objective: The most common histopathologic malignant and benign nod- ules are Adenocarcinoma and Granuloma, respectively, which have di_erent standards of care. In this paper, we propose an automatic framework for the diagnosis of the Adenocarcinomas and the Granulomas in the CT scans of the chest from a private dataset. We use the radiomic features of the nodules and the attached vessel tortuos- ity for the diagnosis. The private dataset includes 22 CTs for each nodule type, i.e., adenocarcinoma and granuloma. The dataset contains the CTs of the non-smoker pa- tients who are between 30 and 60 years old. To automatically segment the delineated nodule area and the attached vessels area, we apply a morphological-based approach. For distinguishing the malignancy of the segmented nodule, two texture features of the nodule, the curvature Mean and the number of the attached vessels are extracted.
Results: We compare our framework with the state-of-the-art feature selec- tion methods for di_erentiating Adenocarcinomas from Granulomas. These methods employ only the shape features of the nodule, the texture features of the nodule, or the torsion features of the attached vessels along with the radiomic features of the nodule. The accuracy of our framework is improved by considering the four selected features.
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Lung Cancer, Computed Tomography of the Chest, Computer-Aided Diagnosis, Radiomic Features, Vessel Tortuosity
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Distinguishing Adenocarcinomas From Granulomas in The CT Scan of The Chest: Performance Degradation Evaluation in The Automatic Segmentation Framework
Mehdi Teimouri
University of Tehran
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ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4662-5535
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On 06 Jan, 2021
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Objective: The most common histopathologic malignant and benign nod- ules are Adenocarcinoma and Granuloma, respectively, which have di_erent standards of care. In this paper, we propose an automatic framework for the diagnosis of the Adenocarcinomas and the Granulomas in the CT scans of the chest from a private dataset. We use the radiomic features of the nodules and the attached vessel tortuos- ity for the diagnosis. The private dataset includes 22 CTs for each nodule type, i.e., adenocarcinoma and granuloma. The dataset contains the CTs of the non-smoker pa- tients who are between 30 and 60 years old. To automatically segment the delineated nodule area and the attached vessels area, we apply a morphological-based approach. For distinguishing the malignancy of the segmented nodule, two texture features of the nodule, the curvature Mean and the number of the attached vessels are extracted.
Results: We compare our framework with the state-of-the-art feature selec- tion methods for di_erentiating Adenocarcinomas from Granulomas. These methods employ only the shape features of the nodule, the texture features of the nodule, or the torsion features of the attached vessels along with the radiomic features of the nodule. The accuracy of our framework is improved by considering the four selected features.
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