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Lung cancer is one of the most deadly diseases in the world today, the annual number of deaths more than the next three cancers combined. Even with our advancement in medical science, the problem still persists. It can be addressed effectively at earlier stages, but most cases are detected at stages 3 or 4, where it is too late to be addressed properly. The objective of this paper is to design an effective Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system which can segment of the CT scan of the lung, and help radiologists identify and diagnose this issue at an early stage. A novel 3-dimensional CNN is used to segment the nodules present in the CT scan, which will help classify the nodules with better accuracy. Various optimizations have been carried out to ensure that the convergence is quick and fast, while yielding the best possible accuracy. The proposed architecture achieves a Dice coefficient of 0.9615, on the LUNA16 dataset.
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Kumar, S., Raman, S. (2020). Lung Nodule Segmentation Using 3-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Networks. In: Das, K., Bansal, J., Deep, K., Nagar, A., Pathipooranam, P., Naidu, R. (eds) Soft Computing for Problem Solving. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1048. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0035-0_48
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