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. 2024 Feb 16;14(1):3934.
doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-51833-x.

Effective lung nodule detection using deep CNN with dual attention mechanisms

Zia UrRehman  1 , Yan Qiang  1   2 , Long Wang  3 , Yiwei Shi  4 , Qianqian Yang  3 , Saeed Ullah Khattak  5 , Rukhma Aftab  1 , Juanjuan Zhao  6   7
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Effective lung nodule detection using deep CNN with dual attention mechanisms

Zia UrRehman et al. Sci Rep. .

Abstract

Novel methods are required to enhance lung cancer detection, which has overtaken other cancer-related causes of death as the major cause of cancer-related mortality. Radiologists have long-standing methods for locating lung nodules in patients with lung cancer, such as computed tomography (CT) scans. Radiologists must manually review a significant amount of CT scan pictures, which makes the process time-consuming and prone to human error. Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems have been created to help radiologists with their evaluations in order to overcome these difficulties. These systems make use of cutting-edge deep learning architectures. These CAD systems are designed to improve lung nodule diagnosis efficiency and accuracy. In this study, a bespoke convolutional neural network (CNN) with a dual attention mechanism was created, which was especially crafted to concentrate on the most important elements in images of lung nodules. The CNN model extracts informative features from the images, while the attention module incorporates both channel attention and spatial attention mechanisms to selectively highlight significant features. After the attention module, global average pooling is applied to summarize the spatial information. To evaluate the performance of the proposed model, extensive experiments were conducted using benchmark dataset of lung nodules. The results of these experiments demonstrated that our model surpasses recent models and achieves state-of-the-art accuracy in lung nodule detection and classification tasks.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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The overall flow of the proposed model for lunge nodule classification.
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The structure of proposed modified CNN model.
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The structure of proposed dual attention mechanism.
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The confusion matrix of the proposed model using Luna16 dataset.
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Visual analysis of the proposed model using LUNA 16 dataset.
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The RoC of the proposed model using LUNA16 dataset.
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