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Detection of subtle lesions on computed tomography (CT) images is a difficult task for radiologists, because subtle lesions such as small lung nodules tend to be low in contrast, and a large number of CT images must be interpreted in a limited time. One of the solutions to the problem, a temporal subtraction technique, has been introduced in the medical field as 2D visual screening. The temporal subtraction image is obtained by subtraction of a previous image from a current one, and can be used for enhancing interval changes on medical images by removing most of the normal background structures. In this study, we have developed a method for computerized detection of lung nodules by using temporal subtraction with a voxel-matching technique in multidetector-row CT (MDCT) images. First, the candidates for nodules were detected by use of a multiple threshold technique based on the pixel value in the temporal subtraction image obtained by the voxel-matching technique. Next, a number of features were quantified, and some false positives were removed by a rule-based method with an artificial neural network. We applied our computerized scheme to 6 chest MDCT cases including 94 lung nodules. Our scheme for detecting lung nodules provided a sensitivity of 71.2 % for lung nodules with sizes under 20 mm, with 9.8 and 11.5 false positives per scan on the consistency test and validation test, respectively.
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Itai, Y., Kim, H., Ishikawa, S., Katsuragawa, S., Doi, K. (2009). Reduction of FPs for Lung Nodules in MDCT by Use of Temporal Subtraction with Voxel-Matching Technique. In: Köppen, M., Kasabov, N., Coghill, G. (eds) Advances in Neuro-Information Processing. ICONIP 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5506. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02490-0_62
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