Automatic identification of suspicious bone metastatic lesions in bone scintigraphy using convolutional neural network.

Abstract

Authors

• Yemei Liu
  Laboratory of Clinical Nuclear Medicine, Department of Nuclear Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, Chengdu, 610041, China.
• Pei Yang
  Department of Bone and Joint Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
• Yong Pi
  Machine Intelligence Laboratory, College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, PR China.
• Lisha Jiang
  Laboratory of Clinical Nuclear Medicine, Department of Nuclear Medicine, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, Chengdu, 610041, People's Republic of China.
• Xiao Zhong
  Laboratory of Clinical Nuclear Medicine, Department of Nuclear Medicine, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, Chengdu, 610041, People's Republic of China.
• Junjun Cheng
  Laboratory of Clinical Nuclear Medicine, Department of Nuclear Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 37 Guo Xue Alley, Chengdu, 610041, China.
• Yongzhao Xiang
  Department of Nuclear Medicine, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, PR China.
• Jianan Wei
  Machine Intelligence Laboratory, College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, People's Republic of China.
• Lin Li
  Department of Medicine III, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
• Zhang Yi
• Huawei Cai
  Department of Nuclear Medicine, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, PR China. Electronic address: hw.cai@yahoo.com.
• Zhen Zhao

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