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Patient-specific models for lung nodule detection and surveillancein CT images
Authors:Brown  MS McNitt-Gray  MF Goldin  JG Suh  RD Sayre  JW Aberle  DR
Affiliation:Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, USA. mbrown@mednet.ucls.edu
Abstract:The purpose of this work is to develop patient-specific models for automatically detecting lung nodules in computed tomography (CT) images. It is motivated by significant developments in CT scanner technology and the burden that lung cancer screening and surveillance imposes on radiologists. We propose a new method that uses a patient's baseline image data to assist in the segmentation of subsequent images so that changes in size and/or shape of nodules can be measured automatically. The system uses a generic, a priori model to detect candidate nodules on the baseline scan of a previously unseen patient. A user then confirms or rejects nodule candidates to establish baseline results. For analysis of follow-up scans of that particular patient, a patient-specific model is derived from these baseline results. This model describes expected features (location, volume and shape) of previously segmented nodules so that the system can relocalize them automatically on follow-up. On the baseline scans of 17 subjects, a radiologist identified a total of 36 nodules, of which 31 (86%) were detected automatically by the system with an average of 11 false positives (FPs) per case. In follow-up scans 27 of the 31 nodules were still present and, using patient-specific models, 22 (81%) were correctly relocalized by the system. The system automatically detected 16 out of a possible 20 (80%) of new nodules on follow-up scans with ten FPs per case.
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