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Segmentation is one of the most significant steps in image processing. Segmenting an image is a technique that makes it possible to separate a digital image into various areas based on the different characteristics of pixels in the image.…

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Mammography is the most effective and available tool for breast cancer screening. However, the low positive predictive value of breast biopsy resulting from mammogram interpretation leads to approximately 70% unnecessary biopsies with…

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Digital mammogram inspection is the most popular technique for early detection of abnormalities in human breast tissue. When mammograms are analyzed through a computational method, the presence of the pectoral muscle might affect the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Jairo A. Ayala-Godoy , Rosa E. Lillo , Juan Romo

This paper proposes an efficient solution for tumor segmentation and classification in breast ultrasound (BUS) images. We propose to add an atrous convolution layer to the conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN) segmentation model…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Vivek Kumar Singh , Hatem A. Rashwan , Mohamed Abdel-Nasser , Md. Mostafa Kamal Sarker , Farhan Akram , Nidhi Pandey , Santiago Romani , Domenec Puig

Data scarcity hinders deep learning for medical imaging. We propose a framework for breast cancer classification in thermograms that addresses this using a Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DPM) for data augmentation. Our DPM-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Sepehr Salem , M. Moein Esfahani , Jingyu Liu , Vince Calhoun

Mammography is crucial for breast cancer surveillance and early diagnosis. However, analyzing mammography images is a demanding task for radiologists, who often review hundreds of mammograms daily, leading to overdiagnosis and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Kun Zhao , Jakub Prokop , Javier Montalt Tordera , Sadegh Mohammadi

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women worldwide, with early detection significantly increasing survival rates. Ultrasound imaging is a critical diagnostic tool that aids in early detection by providing real-time…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Mingzhe Hu , Yuheng Li , Xiaofeng Yang

We trained and applied an encoder-decoder model to semantically segment breast biopsy images into biologically meaningful tissue labels. Since conventional encoder-decoder networks cannot be applied directly on large biopsy images and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Sachin Mehta , Ezgi Mercan , Jamen Bartlett , Donald Weaver , Joann Elmore , Linda Shapiro

Breast cancer ranks as the most prevalent form of cancer diagnosed in women, and diagnosis faces several challenges, a change in the size, shape and appearance of breasts, dense breast tissue, lumps or thickening in the breast especially if…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Abdulqader Mohammed , Mohammed Abdel Razek , Mohamed El-dosuky , Ahmed Sobhi

Breast MRI provides high-resolution imaging critical for breast cancer screening and preoperative staging. However, existing segmentation methods for breast MRI remain limited in scope, often focusing on only a few anatomical structures,…

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This paper presents a tumor detection algorithm from mammogram. The proposed system focuses on the solution of two problems. One is how to detect tumors as suspicious regions with a very weak contrast to their background and another is how…

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Accurate identification of breast masses is crucial in diagnosing breast cancer; however, it can be challenging due to their small size and being camouflaged in surrounding normal glands. Worse still, it is also expensive in clinical…

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Screening mammograms are a routine imaging exam performed to detect breast cancer in its early stages to reduce morbidity and mortality attributed to this disease. In order to maximize the efficacy of breast cancer screening programs,…

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of thigh and calf muscles is one of the most effective techniques for estimating fat infiltration into muscular dystrophies. The infiltration of adipose tissue into the diseased muscle region varies in its…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-14 Rula Amer , Jannette Nassar , David Bendahan , Hayit Greenspan , Noam Ben-Eliezer

Locating region of interest for breast cancer masses in the mammographic image is a challenging problem in medical image processing. In this research work, the keen idea is to efficiently extract suspected mass region for further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 BV Divyashree , Amarnath R , Naveen M , G Hemantha Kumar

In this research work, a novel framework is pro- posed as an efficient successor to traditional imaging methods for breast cancer detection in order to decrease the computational complexity. In this framework, the breast is devided into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Yasaman Ettefagh , Mohammad Hossein Moghaddam , Saeed Vahidian

Mammography, the current standard for breast cancer screening, has reduced sensitivity in women with dense breast tissue, contributing to missed or delayed diagnoses. Thermalytix, an AI-based thermal imaging modality, captures functional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Siva Teja Kakileti , Bharath Govindaraju , Sudhakar Sampangi , Geetha Manjunath

Over the past decades, computer-aided diagnosis tools for breast cancer have been developed to enhance screening procedures, yet their clinical adoption remains challenged by data variability and inherent biases. Although foundation models…

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We introduce the first publicly available breast MRI dataset with explicit left and right breast segmentation labels, encompassing more than 13,000 annotated cases. Alongside this dataset, we provide a robust deep-learning model trained for…

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