Deep Residual 3D U-Net for Joint Segmentation and Texture Classification of Nodules in Lung

Abstract: In this work we present a method for lung nodules segmentation, their texture classification and subsequent follow-up recommendation from the CT image of lung. Our method consists of neural network model based on popular U-Net architecture family but modified for the joint nodule segmentation and its texture classification tasks and an ensemble-based model for the follow-up recommendation. This solution was evaluated within the LNDb medical imaging challenge and produced the best nodule segmentation result on the final leaderboard.