Severity Assessment of Lymph Nodes in CT Images using Deep Learning Paradigm

Abstract

Cancer in lymph nodes occurs either in the nodes themselves or infuses from somewhere else. In these scenarios, the cancer assessment using image information may lead to valuable assistance to the radiologists. In this paper, the lymph nodes in computed tomography (CT) images are explored for assessing the severity of cancer on deep machine learning platform. The proposed system has an advantage of not working on features to achieve comparable or even better stratification of cancerous lymph nodes. Mediastinal lymph nodes are focused here due to their clinical importance to determine the metastasis.