Title
Multi-Order Transfer Learning For Pathologic Diagnosis Of Pulmonary Nodule Malignancy
Abstract
Precise diagnosis of pulmonary nodules can be very crucial as pulmonary nodules are often the common manifestation of early lung cancers. In this study, we investigate the multi-order transfer learning for the assessments of pulmonary nodules to leverage the classification performance of nodules with pathologic confirmation in the condition of small samples. The experiments show that the 3rd order transfer with the source tasks of texture, diameter and lobulation can achieve the best performance (Acc=0.8194, AUC=0.7533) among all 10 orders transfer learning in the pathologic diagnosis (golden standard) of nodule malignancy, which shows a higher performance than the state-of-the art methods and even outperforms radiologists' performance (Acc=0.7241, AUC=0.76) in terms of Accuracy. This multi-order transfer learning is shown to be effective in the pathologic diagnosis of pulmonary nodule malignancy with simply need only 30% semantic tasks as source tasks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621407
PROCEEDINGS 2018 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOMEDICINE (BIBM)
Keywords
Field
DocType
computer-aided diagnosis, multi-order transfer learning, pathologic diagnosis, pulmonary nodule, computed tomography (CT)
Lung,Computer science,Computer-aided diagnosis,Transfer of learning,Malignancy,Bioinformatics,Radiology
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2156-1125
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qingfeng Wang1187.53
Jie-Zhi Cheng210213.00
Zhi-qin Liu3124.93
Jun Huang401.01
Qiyu Liu510.71
Ying Zhou69518.36
Weiyun Xu711.39
Chao Wang837262.24
Xuehai Zhou955177.54