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bv-chestct-v1 · BlackVoxel

Lung nodule characterization.

Binary characterization of a crop centered on a lung nodule.

Axial chest CT crop centered on a nodule
BV-CTNOD-9000AXIALNodule with suspicious pattern

What it does

The radiologist marks the nodule location. The model classifies the crop and displays the score for morphological review.

Model
bv-chestct-v1
Ownership
BlackVoxel
Base
ResNet-18 / ImageNet transfer / 128 px crop
Data
LIDC-IDRI / TCIA / CC BY 3.0

Demo

Image, attention map and draft report.

The screen uses previously processed results. Inference is not run on this page.

CT / CHEST BV-CTNOD-9000 bv-chestct-v1 BLACKVOXEL · R&D
Axial chest CT crop centered on a nodule
Nodule with suspicious pattern · 100%
AXIALW/L · AUTO
STORED MODEL OUTPUTGRAD-CAM

Training and evaluation

Data and setup.

01Dataset

LIDC-IDRI / TCIA / CC BY 3.0

02Architecture

ResNet-18 / ImageNet transfer / 128 px crop

03Training

Task-specific labels

04Test

patient-split test

ResNet-18 fine-tuned on LIDC-IDRI nodule crops. The random sample was split by patient; the test set contains 97 nodules.

AUROC 0.931, sensitivity 0.750 and specificity 0.967 on the test set, with 36 nodules labeled as malignant-suspicious.

Test results

Measured performance.

0.931

AUROC

patient-split test
0.750

sensitivity

0.5 threshold
0.967

specificity

same threshold

The AUROC of 0.931 refers to characterization of centered nodules. The evaluation does not include detection, screening or volumetric reading.

Limitations

Scope of this result.

  1. 01

    The nodule must first be localized by the radiologist.

  2. 02

    2D slice and crop, not the complete volume.

  3. 03

    Radiological suspicion is not pathological confirmation.

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