Lung CT Image Segmentation Using Deep Neural Networks

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Abstract

Lung CT image segmentation is a necessary initial step for lung image analysis, it is a prerequisite step to provide an accurate lung CT image analysis such as lung cancer detection.

In this work, we propose a lung CT image segmentation using the U-net architecture, one of the most used architectures in deep learning for image segmentation. The architecture consists of a contracting path to extract high-level information and a symmetric expanding path that recovers the information needed. This network can be trained end-to-end from very few images and outperforms many methods.

Experimental results show an accurate segmentation with 0.9502 Dice-Coefficient index.

Keywords

Lung CT
Image Segmentation
Deep Learning
U-net

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