• Acta Photonica Sinica
  • Vol. 50, Issue 2, 65 (2021)
Hong HUANG1, Rongfei LÜ1, Junli TAO2, Yuan LI1, and Jiuquan ZHANG2
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Technique System of the Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Chongqing400044, China
  • 2Department of Radiology, Chongqing University Cancer Hospital & Chongqing Cancer Institute & Chongqing Cancer Hospital, Chongqing400030, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/gzxb20215002.0210001 Cite this Article
    Hong HUANG, Rongfei LÜ, Junli TAO, Yuan LI, Jiuquan ZHANG. Segmentation of Lung Nodules in CT Images Using Improved U-Net++[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2021, 50(2): 65 Copy Citation Text show less
    Comparison of multi-level feature encoding-decoding structure
    Fig. 1. Comparison of multi-level feature encoding-decoding structure
    The overall structure of the proposed iU-Net++ algorithm
    Fig. 2. The overall structure of the proposed iU-Net++ algorithm
    Weighted aggregation block
    Fig. 3. Weighted aggregation block
    Segmentation data sets used in the experiment
    Fig. 4. Segmentation data sets used in the experiment
    The preprocessing procedure
    Fig. 5. The preprocessing procedure
    Comparison of segmentation results of pulmonary nodules in LIDC dataset
    Fig. 6. Comparison of segmentation results of pulmonary nodules in LIDC dataset
    Loss-DICE curves of iU-Net ++ algorithm during training process in LIDC dataset
    Fig. 7. Loss-DICE curves of iU-Net ++ algorithm during training process in LIDC dataset
    Comparison of DICE change curves during network training in LIDC dataset
    Fig. 8. Comparison of DICE change curves during network training in LIDC dataset
    Comparison of segmentation results of pulmonary nodules in CQUCH-LC dataset
    Fig. 9. Comparison of segmentation results of pulmonary nodules in CQUCH-LC dataset
    Loss-DICE curves of iU-Net ++ algorithm during training process in CQUCH-LC dataset
    Fig. 10. Loss-DICE curves of iU-Net ++ algorithm during training process in CQUCH-LC dataset
    Comparison of DICE change curves during network training in CQUCH-LC dataset
    Fig. 11. Comparison of DICE change curves during network training in CQUCH-LC dataset
    AlgorithmIoUDICESensitivityPrecision
    U-Net82.0387.6489.7689.91
    U-Net++ w/ DS84.2488.9690.4691.10
    U-Net++ w/o DS83.1788.5089.5090.90
    iU-Net++87.4090.8391.9492.17
    Table 1. Segmentation results of multiple metrics on the testing set of LIDC dataset by different algorithms
    AlgorithmIoUDICESensitivityPrecision
    U-Net75.0083.8687.3784.21
    U-Net++ w/ DS78.3186.0987.3788.31
    U-Net++ w/o DS77.9786.2287.7087.19
    iU-Net++80.5988.2389.1589.11
    Table 2. Segmentation results of multiple metrics on the testing set of CQUCH-LC dataset by different algorithms
    Hong HUANG, Rongfei LÜ, Junli TAO, Yuan LI, Jiuquan ZHANG. Segmentation of Lung Nodules in CT Images Using Improved U-Net++[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2021, 50(2): 65
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