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Cross attention guided multi-scale feature fusion for false-positive reduction in pulmonary nodule detection

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COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Volume 151, Issue -, Pages -

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2022.106302

Keywords

Pulmonary nodule detection; False-positive reduction; Cross attention; Multi-scale feature fusion; Distributed aligned linear classifier

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In this paper, a novel method for reducing false positives in pulmonary nodule detection is proposed. It achieves better feature extraction through multi-scale feature fusion and spatial pyramid pooling, and improves the model's generalization performance using a weighted fusion method. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
False-positive reduction is a crucial step of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system for pulmonary nodules detection and it plays an important role in lung cancer diagnosis. In this paper, we propose a novel cross attention guided multi-scale feature fusion method for false-positive reduction in pulmonary nodule detection. Specifically, a 3D SENet50 fed with a candidate nodule cube is applied as the backbone to acquire multi-scale coarse features. Then, the coarse features are refined and fused by the multi-scale fusion part to achieve a better feature extraction result. Finally, a 3D spatial pyramid pooling module is used to enhance receptive field and a distributed aligned linear classifier is applied to get the confidence score. In addition, each of the five nodule cubes with different sizes centering on every testing nodule position is fed into the proposed framework to obtain a confidence score separately and a weighted fusion method is used to improve the generalization performance of the model. Extensive experiments are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the classification performance of the proposed model. The data used in our work is from the LUNA16 pulmonary nodule detection challenge. In this data set, the number of true-positive pulmonary nodules is 1,557, while the number of false-positive ones is 753,418. The new method is evaluated on the LUNA16 dataset and achieves the score of the competitive performance metric (CPM) 84.8%.

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