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Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. The best solution for lung cancer is to diagnose the pulmonary nodules in the early stage, which is usually accomplished with the aid of thoracic computed tomography (CT). As deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Rui Xu , Zhi Liu , Yong Luo , Han Hu , Li Shen , Bo Du , Kaiming Kuang , Jiancheng Yang

Automatic pulmonary nodules classification is significant for early diagnosis of lung cancers. Recently, deep learning techniques have enabled remarkable progress in this field. However, these deep models are typically of high computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-20 Hanliang Jiang , Fuhao Shen , Fei Gao , Weidong Han

Known for its high morbidity and mortality rates, lung cancer poses a significant threat to human health and well-being. However, the same population is also at high risk for other deadly diseases, such as cardiovascular disease. Since…

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With the advanced imaging technology, digital pathology imaging of tumor tissue slides is becoming a routine clinical procedure for cancer diagnosis. This process produces massive imaging data that capture histological details in high…

Applications · Statistics 2020-12-10 Esteban Fernández Morales , Cong Zhang , Guanghua Xiao , Chul Moon , Qiwei Li

The early detection and early diagnosis of lung cancer are crucial to improve the survival rate of lung cancer patients. Pulmonary nodules detection results have a significant impact on the later diagnosis. In this work, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Tian Lan , Yuanyuan Li , Jonah Kimani Murugi , Yi Ding , Zhiguang Qin

Though large-scale datasets are essential for training deep learning systems, it is expensive to scale up the collection of medical imaging datasets. Synthesizing the objects of interests, such as lung nodules, in medical images based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Jie Yang , Siqi Liu , Sasa Grbic , Arnaud Arindra Adiyoso Setio , Zhoubing Xu , Eli Gibson , Guillaume Chabin , Bogdan Georgescu , Andrew F. Laine , Dorin Comaniciu

Objective: Cytology plays a crucial role in lung cancer diagnosis. Pulmonary cytology involves cell morphological characterization in the specimen and reporting the corresponding findings, which are extremely burdensome tasks. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Atsushi Teramoto , Ayano Michiba , Yuka Kiriyama , Tetsuya Tsukamoto , Kazuyoshi Imaizumi , Hiroshi Fujita

Lung cancer remains one of the most prevalent and fatal diseases worldwide, demanding accurate and timely diagnosis and treatment. Recent advancements in large AI models have significantly enhanced medical image understanding and clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Jiachen Zhong , Yiting Wang , Di Zhu , Ziwei Wang

Collectively, lung cancer, breast cancer and melanoma was diagnosed in over 535,340 people out of which, 209,400 deaths were reported [13]. It is estimated that over 600,000 people will be diagnosed with these forms of cancer in 2015. Most…

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Lung cancer is a very deadly disease worldwide, and its early diagnosis is crucial for increasing patient survival rates. Computed tomography (CT) scans are widely used for lung cancer diagnosis as they can give detailed lung structures.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Md Rashidul Islam , Bakary Gibba , Altagi Abdallah Bakheit Abdelgadir

Machine learning approaches hold great potential for the automated detection of lung nodules in chest radiographs, but training the algorithms requires vary large amounts of manually annotated images, which are difficult to obtain. Weak…

Early diagnosis of lung cancer via computed tomography can significantly reduce the morbidity and mortality rates associated with the pathology. However, search lung nodules is a high complexity task, which affects the success of screening…

Background: Lung cancer was known as primary cancers and the survival rate of cancer is about 15%. Early detection of lung cancer is the leading factor in survival rate. All symptoms (features) of lung cancer do not appear until the cancer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Mitra Montazeri , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah , Ahmad Enhesari

Background and Objective: Early detection of lung cancer is crucial as it has high mortality rate with patients commonly present with the disease at stage 3 and above. There are only relatively few methods that simultaneously detect and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-18 Kelvin Shak , Mundher Al-Shabi , Andrea Liew , Boon Leong Lan , Wai Yee Chan , Kwan Hoong Ng , Maxine Tan

Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, with survival strongly dependent on early detection. Standard-dose computed tomography (CT) screening using the Lung Imaging Reporting and Data System (Lung-RADS)…

Tumors can manifest in various forms and in different areas of the human body. Brain tumors are specifically hard to diagnose and treat because of the complexity of the organ in which they develop. Detecting them in time can lower the…

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Candidate generation, the first stage for most computer aided detection (CAD) systems, rapidly scans the entire image data for any possible abnormality locations, while the subsequent stages of the CAD system refine the candidates list to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-22 Sergei V. Fotin , David F. Yankelevitz , Claudia I. Henschke , Anthony P. Reeves

Purpose: Lung nodule segmentation, i.e., the algorithmic delineation of the lung nodule surface, is a fundamental component of computational nodule analysis pipelines. We propose a new method for segmentation that is a machine learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-20 Matthew C Hancock , Jerry F Magnan

Accurate lung nodule detection for computed tomography (CT) scan imagery is challenging in real-world settings due to the sparse occurrence of nodules and similarity to other anatomical structures. In a typical positive case, nodules may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Hooman Ramezani , Dionne Aleman , Daniel Létourneau

Finding abnormal lymph nodes in radiological images is highly important for various medical tasks such as cancer metastasis staging and radiotherapy planning. Lymph nodes (LNs) are small glands scattered throughout the body. They are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Ke Yan , Dakai Jin , Dazhou Guo , Minfeng Xu , Na Shen , Xian-Sheng Hua , Xianghua Ye , Le Lu