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Table 2 Performance comparison of lung nodule detection methods by sensitivity, FP, number of nodules, size and response time

From: Computer-aided detection system for lung cancer in computed tomography scans: Review and future prospects

Methods

Year

Sensitivity

FP

N ° of nodules

Size

Response time

Type of nodules

Xu et al. [70]

1997

70%

1,7 per image

122

4 - 27mm

20s

NI

Armato et al. [48]

1999

70%

9,6 per case

187

3,1 - 27,8mm

NI

Solitary and juxtapleural

Lee et al. [45]

2001

72%

25,3 per case

98

< 10mm

187 min

NI

Suzuki et al. [71]

2003

80,3%

4,8 per case

121

4 - 27mm

1,4s

Juxtavascular, hilum, ground-glass opacity andjuxtapleural

Murphy et al. [40]

2007

84%

8,2 per case

268

2 - 14mm

NI

Pleural and non-pleural

Ye et al. [23]

2009

90,2%

8,2 per case

220

2 - 20mm

2,5 min

Juxtavascular, isolated, ground-glass opacityand juxtapleural

Messay, Hardie and Rogers [21]

2010

82,66%

3 per case

143

3 - 30mm

2,3 min

Juxtavascular, solitary, ground-glass opacityand juxtapleural

Liu et al. [20]

2010

97%

4,3 per case

32

NI

NI

Solitary

Kumar et al. [75]

2011

86%

2,17 per case

538

NI

NI

NI

Tan et al. [76]

2011

87,5%

4 per case

574

3 - 30mm

NI

Isolated, juxtavascular, and juxtapleural

Hong, Li and Yang [22]

2012

89,47%

11,9 per case

44

NI

NI

Solitary

Cascio et al. [65]

2012

97%

6,1 per case

148

≥ 3mm

1,5 min

Internal and juxtapleural

Orozco et al. [63]

2012

96,15%

2 per case

50

NI

NI

NI

Teramoto and Fujita [24]

2013

80%

4,2 per case

103

5 - 20mm

30s

Juxtavascular, isolated, ground-glass opacityand juxtapleural

  1. (NI = Not Informed).