A Swin Transformer-Based Model for Thyroid Nodule Detection in Ultrasound ImagesYe Tian 1, Jingqiang Zhu 2, Lei Zhang 3, Lichao Mou 3, Xiaoxiang Zhu 3, Yilei Shi 3, Buyun Ma 1, Wanjun Zhao 2
1Department of Ultrasonography, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, 2Department of Thyroid Surgery, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, 3MedAI Technology (Wuxi) Co. Ltd.
Here, a new model for thyroid nodule detection in ultrasound images is proposed, which uses Swin Transformer as the backbone to perform long-range context modeling. Experiments prove that it performs well in terms of sensitivity and accuracy.