Hospital Medicine, Northwell Health, New York, USA
Dr Michael Munoz is currently affiliated with the Pediatrics, Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, USA. Dr Michael Munoz specializes in Pediatrics, Congenital diseases, Infectious diseases
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»