An open access thyroid ultrasound image database

Ultrasound Image-Based Diagnosis of Malignant Thyroid Nodule Using Artificial Intelligence

“…The thyroid is an important organ located in the human neck that produces and secretes two important hormones, namely triiodothyronine and thyroxine, which are responsible for the regulation of metabolism in the human body. Due to its important role in the human body, diagnosing and treatment of thyroid disease has become important [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]. As reported in the previous studies, one important problem commonly experienced in the thyroid region is the appearance of nodules that cause thyroid cancer.…”

“…In Section 2, we provide detailed descriptions of our proposed method for diagnosis of malignant thyroid nodules using the artificial intelligence technique. In Section 3, we validate the performance of the proposed method using a public ultrasound thyroid dataset, namely the Thyroid Digital Image Database (TDID) dataset [20]; compare the findings with the previous studies; and provide a discussion about our results. Finally, we present the conclusion of our study in Section 4.…”

“…This kind of system uses and processes one or more captured medical images of some organs such as X-ray, CT, and MRI scans, and yields its decision that can assist doctors in diagnosing diseases. Due to its purpose, CAD systems have been widely developed and used in real-life applications such as for diagnosing the brain [2,3,7,12], breasts [4,8,[13][14][15][16], lungs [10], and thyroid diseases [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35].…”

“…Using the ultrasound thyroid nodule images, there have been several previous studies on CAD for the thyroid nodule detection and classification problems. In contrast to the conventional thyroid diagnosis methods mentioned above, the CAD methods for thyroid nodules use ultrasound thyroid nodule images as inputs and produce thyroid nodule regions and/or the status of nodules (benign or malign) [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36]. Similar to normal image processing systems, CAD systems for thyroid nodule use several image processing techniques to extract information from input images for detection/classification purposes.…”

Detection and classification of thyroid nodule using Shearlet coefficients and support vector machine

“…Thyroid ultrasound images used in this study are taken from Digital database of thyroid ultrasound images (DDTI) [14]. Each image in the database contains delineated nodule (done by the expert radiologist).…”