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Pulmonary nodules are an early sign of lung cancer, and detecting them early is vital for improving patient survival rates. Most current methods use only single Computed Tomography (CT) images to assess nodule malignancy. However, doctors…

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Lung cancer is one of the prevalence diseases in the world which cause many deaths. Detecting early stages of lung cancer is so necessary. So, modeling and simulating some intelligent medical systems is an essential which can help…

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Recently, intelligent analysis of lung nodules with the assistant of computer aided detection (CAD) techniques can improve the accuracy rate of lung cancer diagnosis. However, existing CAD systems and pulmonary datasets mainly focus on…

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Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and morbidity worldwide. Many studies have shown machine learning models to be effective at detecting lung nodules from chest X-ray images. However, these techniques have yet to be embraced…

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In this work, we present a fully automated lung CT cancer diagnosis system, DeepLung. DeepLung contains two parts, nodule detection and classification. Considering the 3D nature of lung CT data, two 3D networks are designed for the nodule…

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Enlarged lymph nodes (LNs) can provide important information for cancer diagnosis, staging, and measuring treatment reactions, making automated detection a highly sought goal. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm representation of…

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Recently, Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems have emerged as indispensable tools in clinical diagnostic workflows, significantly alleviating the burden on radiologists. Nevertheless, despite their integration into clinical settings, CAD…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Muwei Jian , Hongyu Chen , Zaiyong Zhang , Nan Yang , Haorang Zhang , Lifu Ma , Wenjing Xu , Huixiang Zhi

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

Consistency and duplicability in Computed Tomography (CT) output is essential to quantitative imaging for lung cancer detection and monitoring. This study of CT-detected lung nodules investigated the reproducibility of volume-, density-,…

Spiculations are important predictors of lung cancer malignancy, which are spikes on the surface of the pulmonary nodules. In this study, we proposed an interpretable and parameter-free technique to quantify the spiculation using area…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Wookjin Choi , Saad Nadeem , Sadegh Riyahi , Joseph O. Deasy , Allen Tannenbaum , Wei Lu

Early detection of lung nodules with computed tomography (CT) is critical for the longer survival of lung cancer patients and better quality of life. Computer-aided detection/diagnosis (CAD) is proven valuable as a second or concurrent…

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The accurate classification of benign and malignant pulmonary nodules in CT scans is critical for early lung cancer screening, yet remains challenging due to the multi-scale and heterogeneous nature of pulmonary nodules. While deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jinyue Li , Yuzhou Yu , Jingjing Yang , Meng Fu , Yani Zhang , Shuyao He , Dianlong Ge , Xin Ning , Yannan Chu , Qiankun Li

Different types of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been applied to detect cancerous lung nodules from computed tomography (CT) scans. However, the size of a nodule is very diverse and can range anywhere between 3 and 30…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Mundher Al-Shabi , Hwee Kuan Lee , Maxine Tan

In the U.S., lung cancer is the second major cause of death. Early detection of suspicious lung nodules is crucial for patient treatment planning, management, and improving outcomes. Many approaches for lung nodule segmentation and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-10 Tejas Sudharshan Mathai , Benjamin Hou , Ronald M. Summers

Medical images from different healthcare centers exhibit varied data distributions, posing significant challenges for adapting lung nodule detection due to the domain shift between training and application phases. Traditional unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Haifeng Zhao , Lixiang Jiang , Leilei Ma , Dengdi Sun , Yanping Fu

Lung cancer is a severe menace to human health, due to which millions of people die because of late diagnoses of cancer; thus, it is vital to detect the disease as early as possible. The Computerized chest analysis Tomography of scan is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Ahmed Saihood , Hossein Karshenas , AhmadReza Naghsh Nilchi

Lung cancer has been one of the major threats to human life for decades. Computer-aided diagnosis can help with early lung nodul detection and facilitate subsequent nodule characterization. Large Visual Language models (VLMs) have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Furqan Shaukat , Syed Muhammad Anwar , Abhijeet Parida , Van Khanh Lam , Marius George Linguraru , Mubarak Shah

Early detection of lung cancer is an effective way to improve the survival rate of patients. It is a critical step to have accurate detection of lung nodules in computed tomography (CT) images for the diagnosis of lung cancer. However, due…

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In this study, a morphological differentiation-based method has been introduced which employs temperature distribution on the tissue surface to detect brain tumor's malignancy. According to the common tumor CT scans, two different scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Hamed Hani , Afsaneh Mojra

Lung cancer continues to be the predominant cause of cancer-related mortality globally. This review analyzes various approaches, including advanced image processing methods, focusing on their efficacy in interpreting CT scans, chest…