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Automatic Detection of Cancerous Lung Tissue

Principal Investigator
Name
Maribeth Cogan
Degrees
B.S. Biomedical Engineering
Institution
The University of Texas at Dallas
Position Title
Student - Electrical Engineering Masters Program
Email
About this CDAS Project
Study
NLST (Learn more about this study)
Project ID
NLST-355
Initial CDAS Request Approval
Sep 22, 2017
Title
Automatic Detection of Cancerous Lung Tissue
Summary
My project is to identify cancerous tissue within a CT or x-ray of a lung using a deep neural network. To do this, I first need to train the network on a large dataset of normal and cancerous lungs. Then when the trained network sees a new image of a lung, it would identify if cancer is present, and if so, would draw a box around the unhealthy tissue and provide a confidence score.
Aims

The specific aims of this project are (1) to acquire a large database of annotated lung images for healthy and cancerous lungs, (2) to train a deep convolutional neural network to identify healthy vs. cancerous lungs from images, (3) to test the neural network on a reserved set of unseen data, (4) to assess the accuracy of the network and modify the network parameters until optimal accuracy is achieved,and (5) write a paper describing my results.

Collaborators

Dr. Lakshman Tamil, The University of Texas at Dallas
Timothy Cogan, The University of Texas at Dallas