Ongoing Work on Deep Learning for Lung Cancer Prediction

Deep learning is one of the breakthrough technologies that have emergent in the last few years. It has been applied to a wide variety of problems, most of them related with image processing. It is also being considered for 3D data in medical image processing. This paper is a report of ongoing work about the development of deep learning architectures for lung cancer prediction. Data has been extracted from an ongoing Kaggel challenge, involving multi-center CTA data. First we have normalized in intensity the images. Then we have devised an auto encoder architecture with convolutional layers to obtain a compressed representation of the lung images. These representations are fed as features to a random forest classifier.