Computer-Aided Diagnosis for Early-Stage Lung Cancer Based on Longitudinal and Balanced Data

Tao Sun, Regina Zhang, Jingjing Wang, Xia Li and Xiuhua Guo

PLOS ONE, 2013, vol. 8, issue 5, 1-6

Abstract: Background: Lung cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer resulting in over a million deaths per year worldwide. Typically, the problem can be approached by developing more discriminative diagnosis methods. In this paper, computer-aided diagnosis was used to facilitate the prediction of characteristics of solitary pulmonary nodules in CT of lungs to diagnose early-stage lung cancer. Methods: The synthetic minority over-sampling technique (SMOTE) was used to account for raw data in order to balance the original training data set. Curvelet-transformation textural features, together with 3 patient demographic characteristics, and 9 morphological features were used to establish a support vector machine (SVM) prediction model. Longitudinal data as the test data set was used to evaluate the classification performance of predicting early-stage lung cancer. Results: Using the SMOTE as a pre-processing procedure, the original training data was balanced with a ratio of malignant to benign cases of 1∶1. Accuracy based on cross-evaluation for the original unbalanced data and balanced data was 80% and 97%, respectively. Based on Curvelet-transformation textural features and other features, the SVM prediction model had good classification performance for early-stage lung cancer, with an area under the curve of the SVMs of 0.949 (P

Date: 2013
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