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Principal Investigator
Name
Reddy Reddy
Institution
MCE
Position Title
Engineer
Email
About this CDAS Project
Study
NLST (Learn more about this study)
Project ID
NLST-242
Initial CDAS Request Approval
Sep 26, 2016
Title
Lung cancer diagnosis in real time using deep learning AI techniques over cloud
Summary
A diagnostic for early detection of lung cancer could be important in the effective therapy of the disease. So this study aims to build a smart and intelligent system for lung diseases, especially lung cancer diagnosis, using deep learning and GPU's

We will use the large number of CT cases available in the NLST to train some novel ConvNets to (1) detect the candidate nodules in CT, (2) reduce the false positive, and (3) predict the probability of lung cancer according to the various features of detected nodules.
Aims


(1) Demonstrate that the suspected pulmonary nodules can be auto segmented with high precision without pre-specified feature sets, and the probability of suffering lung cancer can be predicted directly according to the various characteristics of candidate nodules.
(2) Use the mass datasets to train a novel 2D nodule detection system, which can predict the candidate bounding boxes of the suspected pulmonary nodules locating in some particular 2D slices of CT scans, so these bounding boxed can help doctors to fix lesion areas easily and efficiently and make precise clinical decisions.
(3) Exploit Deep learning AI to nodule detection and false positive reduction, and determine the optical model parameters for more accurate segmentation of lesions.
(4) Use CNN to analysis the various characteristics of nodules from the large amount of available data in NLST, and build an end-to-end ConvNets, which can predict the probability of suffering lung cancer directly under a set of pulmonary nodule CT scans.

Collaborators

Abhivrud Cancer care institute