Michaela Cellina, Giuseppe De Padova, Nazarena Caldarelli, Dario Libri, Maurizio Cè, Carlo Martinenghi, Marco Alì, Sergio Papa, Gianpaolo Carrafiello
Lung cancer remains a global health challenge, leading to substantial morbidity and mortality. While prevention and early detection strategies have improved, the need for precise diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment remains crucial. In this comprehensive review article, we explore the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in reshaping the management of lung cancer. AI may have different potential applications in lung cancer characterization and outcome prediction. Manual segmentation is a time-consuming task, with high inter-observer variability, that can be replaced by AI-based approaches, including deep learning models such as U-Net, BCDU-Net, and others, to quantify lung nodules and cancers objectively and to extract radiomics features for the characterization of the tissue...
2024: Critical Reviews in Oncogenesis