Abstract
Preoperative, non-invasive, and accurate identification of the pathological subtypes of pulmonary ground glass nodules (GGNs) play an important role in the precise selection of clinical surgical operations and individualized treatment plans. Efforts have been made for the classification of pathological subtypes of GGNs, but most existing methods focus on benign or malignant diagnosis of GGNs by means of a one-time computed tomography image (CTI), which fails to capture the nodule development based on follow-up CTI. In this paper, a novel method for subtype classification based on follow-up CTIs is presented as a viable option to the existing one-time CTI-based approach. A total of 383 follow-up CTIs with GGNs from 146 patients was collected and retrospectively labeled via posterior surgical pathology. Feature extraction is performed individually to the follow-up CTIs. The extracted feature differences were represented as a vector, which was then used to construct a set of vectors for all the patients. Finally, a subspace K-nearest neighbor classifier was built to predict the pathological subtypes of GGNs. Experimental validation confirmed the efficacy of the new method over the existing method. Results showed that the accuracy of the new method could reach 72.5%, while the existing methods had an upper bound of 67.5% accuracy. Subsequent three-category comparison experiments were also performed to demonstrate that the new method could increase the accuracy up to 21.33% compared to the existing methods that use one-time CTI.
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