Effectively fusing clinical knowledge and AI knowledge for reliable lung nodule diagnosis

Duwei Dai, Yongheng Sun, Caixia Dong, Qingsen Yan, Zongfang Li, Songhua Xu

Abstract: Highlights•We fully fuse clinical and AI knowledge at the feature and decision-making levels.•We integrate multi-scale information to improve model’s feature learning ability.•Experiments show our method has reliable performances in lung nodule diagnosis.