Lung nodules segmentation from CT with DeepHealth toolkit

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates the use of the DeepHealth toolkit, including PyECVL and PyEDDL, for precise lung nodule segmentation from CT scans, showing improved accuracy over traditional methods.

Contribution

It introduces a novel application of the DeepHealth toolkit for lung nodule segmentation, providing a publicly available dataset and code as a baseline.

Findings

Accurate segmentation across a wide diameter range

Better accuracy than traditional detection methods

Publicly available datasets and code

Abstract

The accurate and consistent border segmentation plays an important role in the tumor volume estimation and its treatment in the field of Medical Image Segmentation. Globally, Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of death and the early detection of lung nodules is essential for the early cancer diagnosis and survival rate of patients. The goal of this study was to demonstrate the feasibility of Deephealth toolkit including PyECVL and PyEDDL libraries to precisely segment lung nodules. Experiments for lung nodules segmentation has been carried out on UniToChest using PyECVL and PyEDDL, for data pre-processing as well as neural network training. The results depict accurate segmentation of lung nodules across a wide diameter range and better accuracy over a traditional detection approach. The datasets and the code used in this paper are publicly available as a baseline reference.