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- Title
Reproducible Machine Learning Methods for Lung Cancer Detection Using Computed Tomography Images: Algorithm Development and Validation.
- Authors
Yu, Kun-Hsing; Lee, Tsung-Lu Michael; Yen, Ming-Hsuan; Kou, S C; Rosen, Bruce; Chiang, Jung-Hsien; Kohane, Isaac S
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>Chest computed tomography (CT) is crucial for the detection of lung cancer, and many automated CT evaluation methods have been proposed. Due to the divergent software dependencies of the reported approaches, the developed methods are rarely compared or reproduced.<bold>Objective: </bold>The goal of the research was to generate reproducible machine learning modules for lung cancer detection and compare the approaches and performances of the award-winning algorithms developed in the Kaggle Data Science Bowl.<bold>Methods: </bold>We obtained the source codes of all award-winning solutions of the Kaggle Data Science Bowl Challenge, where participants developed automated CT evaluation methods to detect lung cancer (training set n=1397, public test set n=198, final test set n=506). The performance of the algorithms was evaluated by the log-loss function, and the Spearman correlation coefficient of the performance in the public and final test sets was computed.<bold>Results: </bold>Most solutions implemented distinct image preprocessing, segmentation, and classification modules. Variants of U-Net, VGGNet, and residual net were commonly used in nodule segmentation, and transfer learning was used in most of the classification algorithms. Substantial performance variations in the public and final test sets were observed (Spearman correlation coefficient = .39 among the top 10 teams). To ensure the reproducibility of results, we generated a Docker container for each of the top solutions.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>We compared the award-winning algorithms for lung cancer detection and generated reproducible Docker images for the top solutions. Although convolutional neural networks achieved decent accuracy, there is plenty of room for improvement regarding model generalizability.
- Subjects
LUNG cancer; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTED tomography; CONVOLUTIONAL neural networks; MACHINE learning; IMAGE reconstruction algorithms; RESEARCH evaluation; LUNG tumors
- Publication
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2020, Vol 22, Issue 8, pN.PAG
- ISSN
1439-4456
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.2196/16709