Hospital Medicine, Northwell Health, New York, USA
Review Article
Automated Lung Cancer Detection a Comparison amongst Physicians: A Literature Review
Author(s): Kaviya Sathyakumar, Michael Munoz, Snehal Bansod, Jaikaran Singh, Jasmin Hundal and B Benson A. Babu*
Introduction: Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States as well as
worldwide. Radiologists and physicians experience heavy daily workloads thus are at high risk for burn-out. To
alleviate this burden, this literature review compares the performance of four different AI models in lung nodule
cancer detection, as well as their performance to physicians/radiologists.
Methods: 648 articles were extracted from 2008 to 2019. 4/648 articles were selected. Inclusion criteria: 18-65 years
old, CT chest scans, lung nodule, lung cancer, deep learning, ensemble and classic methods. Exclusion criteria: age
greater than 65 years old, PET hybrid scans, CXR and genomics. Outcomes analysis: Sensitivity, specificity, accuracy,
sensitivity-specificity ROC curve, Area under the curve (AUC). Data bases: Pub.. View more»