Artificial intelligence for the detection of airway nodules in chest CT scans.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Incidental airway tumors are rare and can easily be overlooked on chest CT, especially at an early stage. Therefore, we developed and assessed a deep learning-based artificial intelligence (AI) system for detecting and localizing airway nodules.

Materials and methods

At a single academic hospital, we retrospectively analyzed cancer diagnoses and radiology reports from patients who received a chest or chest-abdomen CT scan between 2004 and 2020 to find cases presenting as airway nodules. Primary cancers were verified through bronchoscopy with biopsy or cytologic testing. The malignancy status of other nodules was confirmed with bronchoscopy only or follow-up CT scans if such evidence was unavailable. An AI system was trained and evaluated with a ten-fold cross-vali

SUBMITTER: Hendrix W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12350537 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature