Development of lung nodule detection algorithms in chest CT
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Currently, only 15% of all diagnosed lung cancers are detected at an early stage, which causes a five-year survival rate of only 16%. The aim of this project is to automatically detect cancers in an earlier stage when curative treatment options are better.
Within this project, novel Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) systems for pulmonary nodules were developed and evaluated. The results were presented through a number of publications listed below and summarized in my PhD Thesis.
Publications
- A.A.A. Setio, F. Ciompi, G. Litjens, P. Gerke, C. Jacobs, S. van Riel, M.W. Wille, M. Naqibullah, C. Sánchez and B. van Ginneken. ”Pulmonary nodule detection in CT images: false positive reduction using multi-view convolutional networks”, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 35(5):1160-1169, 2016.
- A.A.A. Setio, C. Jacobs, J. Gelderblom and B. van Ginneken. ”Automatic detection of large pulmonary solid nodules in thoracic CT images”, Medical Physics, 42:5642-5653, 2015.