May 16, 2020

3D-MCN: A 3D Multi-scale Capsule Network for Lung Nodule Malignancy Prediction

Scientific reports
Parnian Afshar, Anastasia Oikonomou, Farnoosh Naderkhani, Pascal N Tyrrell, Konstantinos N Plataniotis, Keyvan Farahani, Arash Mohammadi
Despite the advances in automatic lung cancer malignancy prediction, achieving high accuracy remains challenging. Existing solutions are mostly based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which require a large amount of training data. Most of the developed CNN models are based only on the main nodule region, without considering the surrounding tissues. Obtaining high sensitivity is challenging with lung nodule malignancy prediction. Moreover, the interpretability of the proposed techniques...