Patient-Specific 3d Cellular Automata Nodule Growth Synthesis In Lung Cancer Without The Need Of External Data

We propose a novel patient-specific generative approach to simulate the emergence and growth of lung nodules using 3D cellular automata (CA) in computer tomography (CT). Our proposed method can be applied to individual images thus eliminating the need of external images that can contaminate and influence the generative process, a valuable characteristic in the medical domain. Firstly, we employ in...