Journal
MEDICAL & BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTING
Volume 59, Issue 1, Pages 215-226Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-020-02302-w
Keywords
NSCLC; Radiomics; CNN; LSTM; Lung histology classification
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This study investigated the classification of NSCLC into AC and SCC using different techniques, with LSTM + Inception showing superior performance and outperforming expert evaluations.
Adenocarcinoma (AC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) are frequent reported cases of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), responsible for a large fraction of cancer deaths worldwide. In this study, we aim to investigate the potential of NSCLC histology classification into AC and SCC by applying different feature extraction and classification techniques on pre-treatment CT images. The employed image dataset (102 patients) was taken from the publicly available cancer imaging archive collection (TCIA). We investigated four different families of techniques: (a) radiomics with two classifiers (kNN and SVM), (b) four state-of-the-art convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with transfer learning and fine tuning (Alexnet, ResNet101, Inceptionv3 and InceptionResnetv2), (c) a CNN combined with a long short-term memory (LSTM) network to fuse information about the spatial coherency of tumor's CT slices, and (d) combinatorial models (LSTM + CNN + radiomics). In addition, the CT images were independently evaluated by two expert radiologists. Our results showed that the best CNN was Inception (accuracy = 0.67, auc = 0.74). LSTM + Inception yielded superior performance than all other methods (accuracy = 0.74, auc = 0.78). Moreover, LSTM + Inception outperformed experts by 7-25% (p < 0.05). The proposed methodology does not require detailed segmentation of the tumor region and it may be used in conjunction with radiological findings to improve clinical decision-making.
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