Purpose: Pulmonary nodules are a potential manifestation of lung cancer. In computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) of lung cancer, it is of great significance to extract the complete boundary of the pulmonary nodules in the computed tomography (CT) scans accurately. It can provide doctors with important information such as tumor size and density, which assist doctors in subsequent diagnosis and treatment. In addition to this, in the molecular subtype and radiomics of lung cancer, segmentation of lung nodules also plays a pivotal role. Existing methods are difficult to use only one model to simultaneously treat the boundaries of multiple types of lung nodules in CT images. Method: In order to solve the problem, this paper proposed a three-dimensional (3D)-UNET network model optimized by a 3D conditional random field (3D-CRF) to segment pulmonary nodules. On the basis of 3D-UNET, the 3D-CRF is used to optimize the sample output of the training set, so as to update the network weights in training process, reduce the model training time, and reduce the loss rate of the model. We selected 936 sets of pulmonary nodule data for the lung image database consortium and image database resource initiative (LIDC-IDRI) 1 database to train and test the model. What's more, we used clinical data from partner hospitals for additional validation. Results and conclusions: The results show that our method is accurate and effective. Particularly, it shows more significance for the optimization of the segmentation of adhesive pulmonary nodules (the juxta-pleural and juxta-vascular nodules) and ground glass pulmonary nodules (GGNs).
In order to assist doctors in arranging the postoperative treatments and re-examinations for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, this study was initiated to explore a prognostic analysis method for NSCLC based on computed tomography (CT) radiomics.
The data of 173 NSCLC patients were collected retrospectively and the clinically meaningful 3-year survival was used as the predictive limit to predict the patient’s prognosis survival time range. Firstly, lung tumors were segmented and the radiomics features were extracted. Secondly, the feature weighting algorithm was used to screen and optimize the extracted original feature data. Then, the selected feature data combining with the prognosis survival of patients were used to train machine learning classification models. Finally, a prognostic survival prediction model and radiomics prognostic factors were obtained to predict the prognosis survival time range of NSCLC patients.
The classification accuracy rate under cross-validation was up to 88.7% in the prognosis survival analysis model. When verifying on an independent data set, the model also yielded a high prediction accuracy which is up to 79.6%. Inverse different moment, lobulation sign and angular second moment were NSCLC prognostic factors based on radiomics.
This study proved that CT radiomics features could effectively assist doctors to make more accurate prognosis survival prediction for NSCLC patients, so as to help doctors to optimize treatment and re-examination for NSCLC patients to extend their survival time.
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