Crowdsourcing lung nodules detection and annotation

Saeed Boorboor; Saad Nadeem; Ji Hwan Park; Kevin Baker; Arie Kaufman

doi:10.1117/12.2292563

6 March 2018 Crowdsourcing lung nodules detection and annotation

Saeed Boorboor, Saad Nadeem, Ji Hwan Park, Kevin Baker, Arie Kaufman

Proceedings Volume 10579, Medical Imaging 2018: Imaging Informatics for Healthcare, Research, and Applications; 105791D (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2292563
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2018, Houston, Texas, United States

Abstract

We present crowdsourcing as an additional modality to aid radiologists in the diagnosis of lung cancer from clinical chest computed tomography (CT) scans. More specifically, a complete work flow is introduced which can help maximize the sensitivity of lung nodule detection by utilizing the collective intelligence of the crowd. We combine the concept of overlapping thin-slab maximum intensity projections (TS-MIPs) and cine viewing to render short videos that can be outsourced as an annotation task to the crowd. These videos are generated by linearly interpolating overlapping TS-MIPs of CT slices through the depth of each quadrant of a patient's lung. The resultant videos are outsourced to an online community of non-expert users who, after a brief tutorial, annotate suspected nodules in these video segments. Using our crowdsourcing work flow, we achieved a lung nodule detection sensitivity of over 90% for 20 patient CT datasets (containing 178 lung nodules with sizes between 1-30mm), and only 47 false positives from a total of 1021 annotations on nodules of all sizes (96% sensitivity for nodules>4mm). These results show that crowdsourcing can be a robust and scalable modality to aid radiologists in screening for lung cancer, directly or in combination with computer-aided detection (CAD) algorithms. For CAD algorithms, the presented work flow can provide highly accurate training data to overcome the high false-positive rate (per scan) problem. We also provide, for the first time, analysis on nodule size and position which can help improve CAD algorithms.

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Saeed Boorboor, Saad Nadeem, Ji Hwan Park, Kevin Baker, and Arie Kaufman "Crowdsourcing lung nodules detection and annotation", Proc. SPIE 10579, Medical Imaging 2018: Imaging Informatics for Healthcare, Research, and Applications, 105791D (6 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2292563

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