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PURPOSE: Deep learning methods for classifying prostate cancer (PCa) in ultrasound images typically employ convolutional networks (CNNs) to detect cancer in small regions of interest (ROI) along a needle trace region. However, this approach…

Medical imaging based prostate cancer diagnosis procedure uses intra-operative transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) imaging to visualize the prostate shape and location to collect tissue samples. Correct tissue sampling from prostate requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-22 M. S. Hossain , A. P. Paplinski , J. M. Betts

This paper proposes a novel Convolutional Neural Network model for contour data analysis (ContourCNN) and shape classification. A contour is a circular sequence of points representing a closed shape. For handling the cyclical property of…

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Virtual immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining from hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) images can accelerate diagnostics by providing preliminary molecular insight directly from routine sections, reducing the need for repeat sectioning when tissue is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jillur Rahman Saurav , Thuong Le Hoai Pham , Pritam Mukherjee , Paul Yi , Brent A. Orr , Jacob M. Luber

Capturing global contextual information plays a critical role in breast ultrasound (BUS) image classification. Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated reliable performance in tumor classification, they have inherent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-07 Bryar Shareef , Min Xian , Aleksandar Vakanski , Haotian Wang

In this study, toward addressing the over-confident outputs of existing artificial intelligence-based colorectal cancer (CRC) polyp classification techniques, we propose a confidence-calibrated residual neural network. Utilizing a novel…

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Deep models based on vision transformer (ViT) and convolutional neural network (CNN) have demonstrated remarkable performance on natural datasets. However, these models may not be similar in medical imaging, where abnormal regions cover…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ahmad Chaddad , Yihang Wu , Xianrui Chen

This paper provides an extensive study on the availability of image representations based on convolutional networks (ConvNets) for the task of visual instance retrieval. Besides the choice of convolutional layers, we present an efficient…

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Using histopathological images to automatically classify cancer is a difficult task for accurately detecting cancer, especially to identify metastatic cancer in small image patches obtained from larger digital pathology scans. Computer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-16 Guanwen Qiu , Xiaobing Yu , Baolin Sun , Yunpeng Wang , Lipei Zhang

Stain variation is a unique challenge associated with automated analysis of digital pathology. Numerous methods have been developed to improve the robustness of machine learning methods to stain variation, but comparative studies have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Michael Yeung , Todd Watts , Sean YW Tan , Pedro F. Ferreira , Andrew D. Scott , Sonia Nielles-Vallespin , Guang Yang

In digital pathology, cell detection and classification are often prerequisites to quantify cell abundance and explore tissue spatial heterogeneity. However, these tasks are particularly challenging for multiplex immunohistochemistry (mIHC)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-05 Yeman Brhane Hagos , Priya Lakshmi Narayanan , Ayse U. Akarca , Teresa Marafioti , Yinyin Yuan

Skin cancer classification is a crucial task in medical image analysis, where precise differentiation between malignant and non-malignant lesions is essential for early diagnosis and treatment. In this study, we explore Sequential and…

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Dealing with the application of grading colorectal cancer images, this work proposes a 3 step pipeline for prediction of cancer levels from a histopathology image. The overall model performs better compared to other state of the art methods…

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Response evaluation criteria in solid tumors (RECIST) is the standard measurement for tumor extent to evaluate treatment responses in cancer patients. As such, RECIST annotations must be accurate. However, RECIST annotations manually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Youbao Tang , Adam P. Harrison , Mohammadhadi Bagheri , Jing Xiao , Ronald M. Summers

Hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained slides are central to cancer diagnosis and monitoring, visualizing tissue architecture and cellular morphology. However, H&E lacks the molecular specificity needed to distinguish cell states and…

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Waste recycling is an important way of saving energy and materials in the production process. In general cases recyclable objects are mixed with unrecyclable objects, which raises a need for identification and classification. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Yuheng Wang , Wen Jie Zhao , Jiahui Xu , Raymond Hong

One of the essential tasks in medical image analysis is segmentation and accurate detection of borders. Lesion segmentation in skin images is an essential step in the computerized detection of skin cancer. However, many of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Ebrahim Nasr-Esfahani , Shima Rafiei , Mohammad H. Jafari , Nader Karimi , James S. Wrobel , S. M. Reza Soroushmehr , Shadrokh Samavi , Kayvan Najarian

Skin cancer is a major public health problem, as is the most common type of cancer and represents more than half of cancer diagnoses worldwide. Early detection influences the outcome of the disease and motivates our work. We investigate the…

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Deep learning has established many new state of the art solutions in the last decade in areas such as object, scene and speech recognition. In particular Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is a category of deep learning which obtains…

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Colorectal cancer is a one of the highest causes of cancer-related death, especially in men. Polyps are one of the main causes of colorectal cancer and early diagnosis of polyps by colonoscopy could result in successful treatment. Diagnosis…

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