Title
Segmentation of Lung Nodule in CT Images Based on Mask R-CNN
Abstract
Due to the low-quality of CT images, the lack of annotated data, and the complex shapes of lung nodules, existing methods for lung nodules detection only predict the center of the nodule, whereas the nodule size is a very important diagnostic criteria but is neglected. In this paper, we employed the powerful object detection neural network “Mask R-CNN” for lung nodule segmentation, which provides contour information. Because of the imbalance between positive and negative samples, we trained classification networks based on block. We selected the classification network with the hightest accuracy. The selected classification network was used as the backbone of the image segmentation network-Mask R-CNN, which performs excellently on natural images. Lastly, Mask R-CNN model trained on the COCO data set was fine-tuned to segment pulmonary nodules. The model was tested on the LIDC-IDRI dataset.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ICAwST.2018.8517248
2018 9th International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology (iCAST)
Keywords
Field
DocType
deep learning,lung nodule segmentation,Mask R-CNN,LIDC-IDRI
Object detection,Pattern recognition,Segmentation,Computer science,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Artificial neural network
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2325-5986
978-1-5386-5827-7
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Menglu Liu110.35
Junyu Dong239377.68
Xinghui Dong3145.00
Hui Yu412821.50
Lin Qi5186.47