Skip to main content

REVIEW article

Front. Oncol.
Sec. Cancer Imaging and Image-directed Interventions
Volume 15 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fonc.2025.1536039
This article is part of the Research Topic Deep Learning for Medical Imaging Applications View all 10 articles

Research progress on artificial intelligence technologyassisted diagnosis of thyroid diseases

Provisionally accepted
Lina Yang Lina Yang 1Xinyuan Wang Xinyuan Wang 2*Shixia Zhang Zhang Shixia Zhang Zhang 1*Kun Cao Kun Cao 1*Jianjun Yang Jianjun Yang 1*
  • 1 Shandong Provincial Third Hospital, Jinan, China
  • 2 山东省, Shandong first rehabilitation hospital, China

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

    With the rapid development of the "Internet + Medical" model, artificial intelligence technology has been widely used in the analysis of medical images. Among them, the technology of using deep learning algorithms to identify features of ultrasound and pathological images and realize intelligent diagnosis of diseases has entered the clinical verification stage. This study is based on the application research of artificial intelligence technology in medical diagnosis and reviews the early screening and diagnosis of thyroid diseases. The cure rate of thyroid disease is high in the early stage, but once it deteriorates into thyroid cancer, the risk of death and treatment costs of the patient increase. At present, the early diagnosis of the disease still depends on the examination equipment and the clinical experience of doctors, and there is a certain misdiagnosis rate. Based on the above background, it is particularly important to explore a technology that can achieve objective screening of thyroid lesions in the early stages. This paper provides a comprehensive review of recent research on the early diagnosis of thyroid diseases using artificial intelligence technology. It integrates the findings of multiple studies and that traditional machine learning algorithms are widely used as research objects. The convolutional neural network model has a high recognition accuracy for thyroid nodules and thyroid pathological cell lesions. U-Net network model can significantly improve the recognition accuracy of thyroid nodule ultrasound images when used as a segmentation algorithm. This article focuses on reviewing the intelligent recognition technology of thyroid ultrasound images and pathological sections, hoping to provide researchers with research ideas and help clinicians achieve intelligent early screening of thyroid cancer.

    Keywords: Thyroid disease, machine learning, Image Recognition, Thyroid ultrasound, thyroid pathological slices

    Received: 28 Nov 2024; Accepted: 31 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Yang, Wang, Zhang, Cao and Yang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Xinyuan Wang, 山东省, Shandong first rehabilitation hospital, China
    Shixia Zhang Zhang, Shandong Provincial Third Hospital, Jinan, China
    Kun Cao, Shandong Provincial Third Hospital, Jinan, China
    Jianjun Yang, Shandong Provincial Third Hospital, Jinan, China

    Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.