Application of YOLOv3 in Lung Nodule Detection

In the recent days, cancer has become one of the leading causes of death in the world. Lung cancer is among the major cancer types that has paralyzed the world with high mortality rate. If detected early, it increases the chance of survival dramatically. A customized deep learning framework called You Only Look Once (YOLOv3) is employed to detect the lung(pulmonary) nodules from the lung CT scan with high sensitivity and precision. The YOLOv3, with its deep neural network architecture was able to detect the nodules with sensitivity of 0.961 and precision of 0.9589.