Ratio weighted and condition weighted medical image fusion based on Contourlet transformation coefficients

Chen, Weibin; Zhou, Lai; Gu, Hong; Zhang, Xin

doi:10.3233/kes-150321

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“…Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models are a type of deep learning architecture introduced to achieve the correct classification of breast cancer [11]. It proposed an in-depth model that uses limited chest CT data to distinguish malignant nodules and benign nodules [12][13][14][15]. It proposed a classification algorithm for thyroid nodule ultrasound images based on DCNN [16].…”

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A New Classification Method in Ultrasound Images of Benign and Malignant Thyroid Nodules Based on Transfer Learning and Deep Convolutional Neural Network

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Thyroid nodule is a clinical disorder with a high incidence rate, with large number of cases being detected every year globally. Early analysis of a benign or malignant thyroid nodule using ultrasound imaging is of great importance in the diagnosis of thyroid cancer. Although the b-mode ultrasound can be used to find the presence of a nodule in the thyroid, there is no existing method for an accurate and automatic diagnosis of the ultrasound image. In this pursuit, the present study envisaged the development of an ultrasound diagnosis method for the accurate and efficient identification of thyroid nodules, based on transfer learning and deep convolutional neural network. Initially, the Total Variation- (TV-) based self-adaptive image restoration method was adopted to preprocess the thyroid ultrasound image and remove the boarder and marks. With data augmentation as a training set, transfer learning with the trained GoogLeNet convolutional neural network was performed to extract image features. Finally, joint training and secondary transfer learning were performed to improve the classification accuracy, based on the thyroid images from open source data sets and the thyroid images collected from local hospitals. The GoogLeNet model was established for the experiments on thyroid ultrasound image data sets. Compared with the network established with LeNet5, VGG16, GoogLeNet, and GoogLeNet (Improved), the results showed that using GoogLeNet (Improved) model enhanced the accuracy for the nodule classification. The joint training of different data sets and the secondary transfer learning further improved its accuracy. The results of experiments on the medical image data sets of various types of diseased and normal thyroids showed that the accuracy rate of classification and diagnosis of this method was 96.04%, with a significant clinical application value.

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