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Detection of pulmonary nodules and reduction of the false positive rate

Principal Investigator
Name
Hsin-Ming Chen
Degrees
M.D.
Institution
National Taiwan University Hospital
Position Title
Visiting Staff
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About this CDAS Project
Study
NLST (Learn more about this study)
Project ID
NLST-411
Initial CDAS Request Approval
May 7, 2018
Title
Detection of pulmonary nodules and reduction of the false positive rate
Summary
A good CAD tool can help radiologists detect pulmonary nodules quickly. However, many of the current softwares have high false positive rates, which hinder the efficiency and reduce the willingness to use. As a radiologist, I need a more practical aid to make daily work done smoothly and accurately, so I tried a couple of machine learning models to develop a CAD tool for lung nodule detection. In this custom-made CAD, the false positive rate is 4%, which may be improved with a larger dataset.
Aims

Reducing the false positive rate of CAD system while keep adequately high sensitivity.

Collaborators

1. Prof. Yeun-Chung Chang, Chairman, Department of Radiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

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