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Integration of Convolutional Neural Networks for Pulmonary Nodule Malignancy Assessment in a Lung Cancer Classification Pipeline

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This article proposes to assess nodule malignancy through 3D convolutional neural networks and to integrate it in an automated end-to-end existing pipeline of lung cancer detection by integrating predictive models of nodulemalignancy into a limited size lung cancer datasets.
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This article is published in Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine.The article was published on 2020-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 52 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Malignancy & Lung cancer.

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Using 2D CNN with Taguchi Parametric Optimization for Lung Cancer Recognition from CT Images

TL;DR: A 2D convolutional neural network (2D CNN) with Taguchi parametric optimization for automatically recognizing lung cancer from CT images is proposed, proving the superiority of proposed model.
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A multi-task CNN approach for lung nodule malignancy classification and characterization

TL;DR: It is shown that models that combine direct malignancy prediction with specific branches for nodule characterization have a better performance than the remaining models, achieving an Area Under the Curve of 0.783.
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A Comprehensive Review of Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Pulmonary Nodules Based on Computed Tomography Scans

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of the application and development of CAD systems is presented, covering public datasets of lung CT scans, commonly used evaluation metrics and various medical competitions, and the advantages of CNNs over traditional image processing methods are summarized.
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Deep Q-networks with web-based survey data for simulating lung cancer intervention prediction and assessment in the elderly: a quantitative study

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors employed Deep Q-Networks (DQN) to predict lung cancer optimal intervention strategy and assess intervention effect in aged 65 years and older (the elderly).
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Re-Identification and growth detection of pulmonary nodules without image registration using 3D siamese neural networks

TL;DR: A novel method based on a 3D siamese neural network is presented, for the re-identification of nodules in a pair of CT scans of the same patient without the need for image registration.
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Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a residual learning framework to ease the training of networks that are substantially deeper than those used previously, which won the 1st place on the ILSVRC 2015 classification task.
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Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization

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Scikit-learn: Machine Learning in Python

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Deep Learning

TL;DR: Deep learning as mentioned in this paper is a form of machine learning that enables computers to learn from experience and understand the world in terms of a hierarchy of concepts, and it is used in many applications such as natural language processing, speech recognition, computer vision, online recommendation systems, bioinformatics, and videogames.
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