Study on diagnosis of thyroid nodules based on convolutional neural network.

Objective: An artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm based on convolutional neural networks was used in ultrasound diagnosis in order to evaluate its performance in judging the nature of thyroid nodules and nodule classification.

Methods: A total of 105 patients with thyroid nodules confirmed by surgery or biopsy were retrospectively analyzed. The properties, characteristics, and classification of thyroid nodules were evaluated by sonographers and by AI to obtain combined diagnoses.