BACKGROUND: African American (AA) individuals are less likely to receive treatment and more likely to die from cancer compared with Caucasian (C) individuals. Recent advancements in surgery and radiation have improved outcomes in early stage non-smal...
OBJECTIVES: A malignant pleural effusion (MPE) is a common complication in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with important staging and prognostic information. Patients with MPEs are often candidates for advanced therapies, however, the current gold...
BACKGROUND: Support vector machines (SVM) are a powerful tool to analyze data with a number of predictors approximately equal or larger than the number of observations. However, originally, application of SVM to analyze biomedical data was limited be...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Nov 9, 2018
Deep two-dimensional (2-D) convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been remarkably successful in producing record-breaking results in a variety of computer vision tasks. It is possible to extend CNNs to three dimensions using 3-D kernels to make th...
Lung cancer is still one of the most common causes of death around the world, while there is overwhelming evidence that the environment and lifestyle factors are predominant causes of most sporadic cancers. However, when applying human-behaviour indi...
PURPOSE: Bronchoscopy is useful in lung cancer detection, but cannot be used to differentiate cancer types. A computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system was proposed to distinguish malignant cancer types to achieve objective diagnoses.
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Nov 6, 2018
The size and shape of a nodule are the essential indicators of malignancy in lung cancer diagnosis. However, effectively capturing the nodule's structural information from CT scans in a computer-aided system is a challenging task. Unlike previous mod...
BACKGROUND: In this study, a deep convolutional neural network (CNN)-based automatic segmentation technique was applied to multiple organs at risk (OARs) depicted in computed tomography (CT) images of lung cancer patients, and the results were compar...
Computerized medical imaging and graphics : the official journal of the Computerized Medical Imaging Society
Nov 3, 2018
Computed tomography (CT)-based screening on lung cancer mortality is poised to make lung nodule management a growing public health problem. Biopsy and pathologic analysis of suspicious nodules is necessary to ensure accurate diagnosis and appropriate...
OBJECTIVES: We evaluated whether machine learning may be helpful for the detection of lung cancer in FDG-PET imaging in the setting of ultralow dose PET scans.
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