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The occurrence of false-positives (FPs) is still an important concern and source of unreliability in computer-aided diagnosis systems developed for 3D virtual colonoscopy. This work presents three different supervised approaches, based on supervised artificial neural networks (ANNs) architectures tested on 16 rows helical multi-slice computer tomography. The performance of the best ANN architecture developed, by using the volumes belonging to only 4 of 7 available nodules diagnosed by expert radiologists as polyps and non-polyps were evaluated in terms of FPs and false-negatives. It revealed good performance in terms of generalization and FPs reduction, correctly detecting all 7 polyps.
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Bevilacqua, V. et al. (2012). 3D Virtual Colonoscopy for Polyps Detection by Supervised Artificial Neural Networks. In: Huang, DS., Gan, Y., Premaratne, P., Han, K. (eds) Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications. ICIC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6840. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24553-4_79
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