Table 1. Average precision obtained with different false positive reduction methods of the nodule detector.
Method
No FP reduction method
HOG + SVM
CNN 2D
CNN 2.5D
CNN 3D
AP (%)
0.0062
0.021
8.9
36.7
44.8
Table 2. AUC of the ROC curve obtained on the validation and
test set with and without post-processing.
Method
Validation set
5-way Siamese cancer predictor
+ 3D mask subtraction (X = 0.82)
Test set
5-way Siamese cancer predictor
+ 3D mask subtraction (X = 0.82)
AUC ROC (%)
 
91.5
 
 
91.3*
* ISBI 2018 lung cancer challenge results can be found
here.