A Thyroid Nodule Differentiation Model for Benign-Malignant Identification by Fusing Transfer Learning and Gradient Boosting Decision Tree
摘要
Accurate identification of benign and malignant thyroid nodules is a core link in clinical diagnosis and treatment decision-making, which directly affects the selection of subsequent treatment plans for patients. Aiming at the problems such as the strong subjectivity of traditional ultrasound diagnosis and the insufficient generalization ability of a single artificial intelligence model in small-sample medical scenarios, this study proposes an optimized computer-aided diagnosis model on the basis of the published hybrid diagnosis framework. The model extracts high-level semantic features of ultrasound images through the ResNet50 network with transfer learning and constructs a two-stage diagnosis architecture combined with the XGBoost classifier with optimized parameters, giving full play to the advantages of deep learning in feature representation and the high-efficiency classification ability of gradient boosting decision trees. Experimental results based on a multi-center clinical ultrasound dataset show that the diagnostic accuracy of the optimized model reaches