Lung CT image segmentation using deep neural networks

Abstract

Lung CT image segmentation is a necessary initial step for lung image analysis, it is a prerequisite step to provide an accurate lung CT image analysis such as lung cancer detection. In tins work, we propose a lung CT image segmentation using the U-net architecture, one of the most used architectures in deep learning for image segmentation. The architecture consists of a contracting path to extract high-level information and a symmetric expanding path that recovers the information needed. This network can be trained end-To-end from very few images and outperforms many methods. Experimental results show an accurate segmentation with 0.9502 Dice-Coefficient index.