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ThyroidNet: A Deep Learning Network for Localization and Classification of Thyroid Nodules

Lu Chen^1,#, Huaqiang Chen^2,#, Zhikai Pan⁷, Sheng Xu², Guangsheng Lai², Shuwen Chen^2,5,6, Shuihua Wang^3,8, Xiaodong Gu^2,6,*, Yudong Zhang^3,4,*

1 Ultrasonic Department, Zhongda Hospital Affiliated to Southeast University, Nanjing, 210009, China
2 School of Physics and Information Engineering, Jiangsu Second Normal University, Nanjing, 211200, China
3 School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
4 Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia
5 State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China
6 Jiangsu Province Engineering Research Center of Basic Education Big Data Application, Jiangsu Second Normal University, Nanjing, 211200, China
7 School of Software Engineering, Quanzhou Normal University, Quanzhou, 362000, China
8 Department of Biological Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, 215123, China

* Corresponding Authors: Xiaodong Gu. Email: ; Yudong Zhang. Email:
# These authors contributed equally to this work. Lu Chen and Huaqiang Chen are considered co-first authors