Research Article

Automated Pulmonary Nodule Classification in Computed Tomography Images Using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network Trained by Generative Adversarial Networks

Table 4

Classification result by difference in network models.

ModelPretraining methodClassification accuracy [%]
BenignMalignantOverall

Proposed method
(AlexNet)
None51.984.970.0
ImageNet40.793.970.0
WGAN (60000)66.793.981.7

GoogLeNetNone40.784.965.0
ImageNet48.287.970.0
WGAN (60000)48.297.075.0

VGG16None29.690.963.3
ImageNet33.387.963.3
WGAN (60000)48.284.968.3