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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Souza, Luís Fabrício* | Holanda, Gabriel | Silva, Francisco Hércules | Alves, Shara Shami | Filho, Pedro Pedrosa
Affiliations: Laboratório de Processamento de Imagens, Sinais e Computação Aplicada, Instituto Federal do Ceará, Brazil
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Luís Fabrício Souza, Laboratório de Processamento de Imagens, Sinais e Computação Aplicada, Instituto Federal do Ceará – Av. Treze de Maio, 2081 – Fortaleza, 60040-531, Brazil. E-mail: fabricio.freitas@lapisco.ifce.edu.br.
Abstract: According to the World Health Organization, severe lung pathologies bring about 250,000 deaths each year, and by 2030 it will be the third leading cause of death in the world. The usage of (CT) Computed Tomography is a crucial tool to aid medical diagnosis. Several studies, based on the computer vision area, in association with the medical field, provide computational models through machine learning and deep learning. In this study, we created a new feature extractor that works as the Mask R-CNN kernel for lung image segmentation through transfer learning. Our approaches minimize the number of images used by CNN’s training step, thereby also decreasing the number of interactions performed by the network. The model obtained results surpassing the standard results generated by Mask R-CNN, obtaining more than 99% about the metrics of real lung position on CT with our best model Mask + SVM, surpassing methods in the literature reaching 11 seconds for pulmonary segmentation. To present the effectiveness of our approach also in the generalization of models (methods capable of generalizing machine knowledge to other different databases), we carried out experiments also with various databases. The method was able, with only one training based on a single database, to segment CT lung images belonging to another lung database, generating excellent results getting 99% accuracy.
Keywords: Lung segmentation, deep learning, Mask R-CNN, feature extractor, transfer learning
DOI: 10.3233/HIS-200287
Journal: International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 189-205, 2020
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