Lung Nodule Image Retrieval Based on Convolutional Neural Networks and Hashing  

作　　者：Yan Qiang Xiaolan Yang Juanjuan Zhao Qiang Cui Xiaoping Du 

机构地区：[1]College of Computer Science and Technology,Taiyuan University of Science and Technology [2]Shanxi Coal Central Hospital

出　　处：《Journal of Beijing Institute of Technology》2019年第1期17-26,共10页北京理工大学学报（英文版）

基　　金：Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61373100);the Open Funding Project of State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems(BUAA-VR-16KF-13,BUAA-VR-17KF-14,BUAA-VR-17KF-15);the Research Project Supported by Shanxi Scholarship Council of China(2016-038)

摘　　要：Lung medical image retrieval based on content similarity plays an important role in computer-aided diagnosis of lung cancer.In recent years,binary hashing has become a hot topic in this field due to its compressed storage and fast query speed.Traditional hashing methods often rely on highdimensional features based hand-crafted methods,which might not be optimally compatible with lung nodule images.Also,different hashing bits contribute to the image retrieval differently,and therefore treating the hashing bits equally affects the retrieval accuracy.Hence,an image retrieval method of lung nodule images is proposed with the basis on convolutional neural networks and hashing.First,apre-trained and fine-tuned convolutional neural network is employed to learn multilevel semantic features of the lung nodules.Principal components analysis is utilized to remove redundant information and preserve informative semantic features of the lung nodules.Second,the proposed method relies on nine sign labels of lung nodules for the training set,and the semantic feature is combined to construct hashing functions.Finally,returned lung nodule images can be easily ranked with the query-adaptive search method based on weighted Hamming distance.Extensive experiments and evaluations on the dataset demonstrate that the proposed method can significantly improve the expression ability of lung nodule images,which further validates the effectiveness of the proposed method.Lung medical image retrieval based on content similarity plays an important role in computer-aided diagnosis of lung cancer.In recent years,binary hashing has become a hot topic in this field due to its compressed storage and fast query speed.Traditional hashing methods often rely on highdimensional features based hand-crafted methods,which might not be optimally compatible with lung nodule images.Also,different hashing bits contribute to the image retrieval differently,and therefore treating the hashing bits equally affects the retrieval accuracy.Hence,an image retrieval method of lung nodule images is proposed with the basis on convolutional neural networks and hashing.First,apre-trained and fine-tuned convolutional neural network is employed to learn multilevel semantic features of the lung nodules.Principal components analysis is utilized to remove redundant information and preserve informative semantic features of the lung nodules.Second,the proposed method relies on nine sign labels of lung nodules for the training set,and the semantic feature is combined to construct hashing functions.Finally,returned lung nodule images can be easily ranked with the query-adaptive search method based on weighted Hamming distance.Extensive experiments and evaluations on the dataset demonstrate that the proposed method can significantly improve the expression ability of lung nodule images,which further validates the effectiveness of the proposed method.

关 键 词：LUNG NODULE image retrieval convolutional neural networks INFORMATIVE SEMANTIC features HASHING 

分 类 号：TP391[自动化与计算机技术—计算机应用技术]