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Breast cancer is already one of the most common form of cancer worldwide. Mammography image analysis is still the most effective diagnostic method to promote the early detection of breast cancer. Accurately segmenting tumors in digital…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-21 Filipe Rolim Cordeiro , Wellington Pinheiro dos Santos , Abel Guilhermino da Silva Filho

Breast cancer is the most common cancer and is the leading cause of cancer death among women worldwide. Detection of breast cancer, while it is still small and confined to the breast, provides the best chance of effective treatment.…

In mammography, the efficacy of computer-aided detection methods depends, in part, on the robust localisation of micro-calcifications ($\mu$C). Currently, the most effective methods are based on three steps: 1) detection of individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Zhi Lu , Gustavo Carneiro , Neeraj Dhungel , Andrew P. Bradley

Microwave-based breast cancer detection has been proposed as a complementary approach to compensate for some drawbacks of existing breast cancer detection techniques. Among the existing microwave breast cancer detection methods, machine…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-27 Hongchao Song , Yunpeng Li , Mark Coates , Aidong Men

In this paper, a novel method for edge detection of microcalcification clusters in mammogram images is presented using the concept of Fractal Dimension and Hurst co-efficient that enables to locate the microcalcifications in the mammograms.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-05-01 P. Shanmugavadivu , V. Sivakumar

Breast cancer is a disease that threatens many women's life, thus, early and accurate detection plays a key role in reducing the mortality rate. Mammography stands as the reference technique for breast cancer screening; nevertheless, many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Juan Zuluaga-Gomez , N. Zerhouni , Z. Al Masry , C. Devalland , C. Varnier

Pathologic analysis of surgical excision specimens for breast carcinoma is important to evaluate the completeness of surgical excision and has implications for future treatment. This analysis is performed manually by pathologists reviewing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-22 David Joon Ho , Dig V. K. Yarlagadda , Timothy M. D'Alfonso , Matthew G. Hanna , Anne Grabenstetter , Peter Ntiamoah , Edi Brogi , Lee K. Tan , Thomas J. Fuchs

Mammography images are widely used to detect non-palpable breast lesions or nodules, preventing cancer and providing the opportunity to plan interventions when necessary. The identification of some structures of interest is essential to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Cesar A. Sierra-Franco , Jan Hurtado , Victor de A. Thomaz , Leonardo C. da Cruz , Santiago V. Silva , Alberto B. Raposo

Mammography is the primary imaging modality used for early detection and diagnosis of breast cancer. X-ray mammogram analysis mainly refers to the localization of suspicious regions of interest followed by segmentation, towards further…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-09 Yutong Yan , Pierre-Henri Conze , Gwenolé Quellec , Mathieu Lamard , Béatrice Cochener , Gouenou Coatrieux

Objectives: To assess evaluative methodologies for comparative measurements of test sensitivity in clinical mammographic screening trials of computer-aided detection (CAD) technologies. Materials and Methods: This meta-analysis was…

Medical Physics · Physics 2013-02-07 Jacob Levman

Breast cancer is one of the most threatening diseases in women's life; thus, the early and accurate diagnosis plays a key role in reducing the risk of death in a patient's life. Mammography stands as the reference technique for breast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Juan Zuluaga-Gomez

Breast cancer is one of the most major causes of death among women, after lung cancer. Breast cancer detection advancements can increase the survival rate of patients through earlier detection. Breast cancer that can be detected by using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Kashif Ishaq , Muhammad Mustagis

Computer aided diagnosis (CAD) of Breast Cancer (BRCA) images has been an active area of research in recent years. The main goals of this research is to develop reliable automatic methods for detecting and diagnosing different types of BRCA…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-20 Marco A. V. M. Grinet , Nuno M. Garcia , Ana I. R. Gouveia , Jose A. F. Moutinho , Abel J. P. Gomes

Breast cancers is the second leading cause of cancer mortality in women; early diagnosis increase the probability of a successful therapy; any marginal improvement in this direction helps sparing lives. In this context functional imaging…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-05-02 Adriana Marcucci , Franco Garibaldi , Giulia Limiti , Teresa Insero , Paolo Musico , Evaristo Cisbani

Image segmentation is a crucial step in a wide range of method image processing systems. It is useful in visualization of the different objects present in the image. In spite of the several methods available in the literature, image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-07-18 I. Laurence Aroquiaraj , K. Thangavel

Breast X-ray CT imaging is being considered in screening as an extension to mammography. As a large fraction of the population will be exposed to radiation, low-dose imaging is essential. Iterative image reconstruction based on solving an…

Medical Physics · Physics 2011-11-14 Jakob H. Jørgensen , Emil Y. Sidky , Xiaochuan Pan

A precise assessment of the risk of breast lesions can greatly lower it and assist physicians in choosing the best course of action. To categorise breast lesions, the majority of current computer-aided systems only use characteristics from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-25 Muhaisin Tiyumba Nantogmah , Abdul-Barik Alhassan , Salamudeen Alhassan

Early tumor detection is key in reducing the number of breast cancer death and screening mammography is one of the most widely available and reliable method for early detection. However, it is difficult for the radiologist to process with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-08-13 José M. Celaya-Padilla , Juan Rodriguez-Rojas , Victor Trevino , José G. Gerardo Tamez-Pena

Breast cancer is one of the most common cause of deaths among women. Mammography is a widely used imaging modality that can be used for cancer detection in its early stages. Deep learning is widely used for the detection of cancerous masses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Ahmed Rasheed , Muhammad Shahzad Younis , Junaid Qadir , Muhammad Bilal

Rapid diagnosis of gastric cancer is a great challenge for clinical doctors. Dramatic progress of computer vision on gastric cancer has been made recently and this review focuses on advances during the past five years. Different methods for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Yihua Sun