Title
UniToChest: A Lung Image Dataset for Segmentation of Cancerous Nodules on CT Scans
Abstract
Lung cancer has emerged as a major causes of death and early detection of lung nodules is the key towards early cancer diagnosis and treatment effectiveness assessment. Deep neural networks achieve outstanding results in tasks such as lung nodules detection, segmentation and classification, however their performance depends on the quality of the training images and on the training procedure. This paper introduces UniToChest, a dataset consisting Computed Tomography (CT) scans of 623 patients. Then, we propose a lung nodules segmentation scheme relying on a convolutional neural architecture that we also re-purpose for a nodule detection task. The experimental results show accurate segmentation of lung nodules across a wide diameter range and better detection accuracy over a traditional detection approach. The datasets and the code used in this paper are publicly made available as a baseline reference.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1007/978-3-031-06427-2_16
IMAGE ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING, ICIAP 2022, PT I
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Medical image segmentation, Deep learning, U-Net, Dataset, Chest CT scan, Lung nodules, DeepHealth
Conference
13231
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
11