Establishing an AI-based diagnostic framework for pulmonary nodules in computed tomography.

Journal: BMC pulmonary medicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Pulmonary nodules seen by computed tomography (CT) can be benign or malignant, and early detection is important for optimal management. The existing manual methods of identifying nodules have limitations, such as being time-consuming and erroneous.

Authors

  • Ruiting Jia
    Image center, Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Minzu University, Tongliao, 028000, China.
  • Baozhi Liu
    Image center, Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Minzu University, Tongliao, 028000, China. lbz6680@126.com.
  • Mohsin Ali
    Institute for Next Generation Healthcare, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, New York; Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.