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Spatial Heterogeneity Utilization In Ct Images For Lung Nodule Classication, Dmitrii Cherezov
Spatial Heterogeneity Utilization In Ct Images For Lung Nodule Classication, Dmitrii Cherezov
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Lung cancer (LC) is leading in the number of deaths among the other types of cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, 135,720 deaths during 2020 in the USA will be associated with LC. The patient 5-year survival rate of 16\% was reported in 1986 and 19% in 2019. One of the reasons why survival rate remains low is that the majority of patients diagnosed with cancer had stages III and IV. In contrast, a 5-year survival rate of 70% was reported for patients of stage IA after surgical resection in the National Lung Screening Trial.
CT screening detects a …