• Laser & Optoelectronics Progress
  • Vol. 56, Issue 24, 241003 (2019)
Bin Zheng1, Chen Yang1, Xiaoping Ma2, and Libo Liu1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Information Engineering, Ningxia University, Yinchuan, Ningxia 750021, China
  • 2Medical Technologic Departments, Yinchuan People's Hospital, Yinchuan, Ningxia 750002, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/LOP56.241003 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Bin Zheng, Chen Yang, Xiaoping Ma, Libo Liu. Malignant Thyroid Nodule Detection Based on Circular Convolutional Neural Network[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2019, 56(24): 241003 Copy Citation Text show less
    Experimental procedure of circular CNN
    Fig. 1. Experimental procedure of circular CNN
    Ultrasound images of thyroid. (a) Original image; (b) noise-removal image; (c) region of interest
    Fig. 2. Ultrasound images of thyroid. (a) Original image; (b) noise-removal image; (c) region of interest
    Basic principle of circular CNN
    Fig. 3. Basic principle of circular CNN
    Structure of CNN-Fusion
    Fig. 4. Structure of CNN-Fusion
    Activation function plots. (a) Sigmoid; (b) ReLUs
    Fig. 5. Activation function plots. (a) Sigmoid; (b) ReLUs
    Experimental data. (a) Accuracy rate; (b) Loss value
    Fig. 6. Experimental data. (a) Accuracy rate; (b) Loss value
    Loss curves of ReLUs and Sigmoid functions
    Fig. 7. Loss curves of ReLUs and Sigmoid functions
    Feature maps of ultrasound image of thyroid
    Fig. 8. Feature maps of ultrasound image of thyroid
    DatasourceClassification ⅠClassification ⅡClassification Ⅲ
    NormalNoduleBenignMalignantMalignantHighly deteriorated
    Local21571101609492288288
    Romero213714580580
    Total215711018221206868868
    Test648330246361260260
    Table 1. Image numbers of thyroid classification
    MethodAccuracy /%
    ANN[8]88.24
    SVM[8]76.47
    LOOCV[9]86.60
    TND[10]65.50
    ResNet[19]92.40
    Proposed method94.30
    Table 2. Comparison of classification results for good and malignancy
    Bin Zheng, Chen Yang, Xiaoping Ma, Libo Liu. Malignant Thyroid Nodule Detection Based on Circular Convolutional Neural Network[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2019, 56(24): 241003
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