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Automatic Thyroid Ultrasound Image Detection and Classification with Priori Knowledge

  • Mengdie Shi
  • , Jianrui Ding*
  • , Shili Zhao
  • , Zicheng Huang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Medical ultrasonic imaging technology is currently the preferred method to detect and diagnose benign and malignant thyroid nodules, which is widely used because of their low cost and noninvasive damage to patients. But automatic lesion detection and classification on thyroid ultrasound image is quite challenging due to the poor image quality. To solve the problem, based on popular Faster R-CNN network for natural image detection, a ResAt-Faster R-CNN model was proposed in the paper according to the characteristics of thyroid ultrasound image, the residual module and attention mechanism. The medical prior knowledges such as location and distribution information are further introduced to constrain the model to reduce the interference of surrounding tissues. The experimental results demonstrated that our proposed method was effective in the discrimination of thyroid nodules..

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCSAE 2021 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Science and Application Engineering
EditorsAli Emrouznejad
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)9781450389853
DOIs
StatePublished - 19 Oct 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event5th International Conference on Computer Science and Application Engineering, CSAE 2021 - Virtual, Online, China
Duration: 19 Oct 202121 Oct 2021

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Computer Science and Application Engineering, CSAE 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityVirtual, Online
Period19/10/2121/10/21

Keywords

  • Faster r-cnn
  • Medical priori- knowledge
  • Thyroid ultrasound image

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