3D G-CNNs for Pulmonary Nodule DetectionDownload PDF

Published: 11 Jul 2022, Last Modified: 03 Nov 2024MIDL 2018 OralReaders: Everyone
Abstract: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) require a large amount of annotated data to learn from, which is often difficult to obtain in the medical domain. In this paper we show that the sample complexity of CNNs can be significantly improved by using 3D roto-translation group convolutions (G-Convs) instead of the more conventional translational convolutions. These 3D G-CNNs were applied to the problem of false positive reduction for pulmonary nodule detection, and proved to be substantially more effective in terms of performance, sensitivity to malignant nodules, and speed of convergence compared to a strong and comparable baseline architecture with regular convolutions, data augmentation and a similar number of parameters. For every dataset size tested, the G-CNN achieved a FROC score close to the CNN trained on ten times more data.
Keywords: nodule detection, false positive reduction, G-CNN, group convolution
Author Affiliation: Univeristy of Amsterdam, Aidence
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