English
Related papers

Related papers: Semi-Automatic Segmentation and Ultrasonic Charact…

200 papers

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death globally, and early diagnosis is crucial for patient survival. Deep learning algorithms have great potential for automatic cancer analysis. Artificial intelligence has achieved high performance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Monika Górka , Daniel Jaworek , Marek Wodzinski

Breast cancer is one of the deadliest cancer worldwide. Timely detection could reduce mortality rates. In the clinical routine, classifying benign and malignant tumors from ultrasound (US) imaging is a crucial but challenging task. An…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Jorge F. Lazo , Sara Moccia , Emanuele Frontoni , Elena De Momi

Five different threshold segmentation based approaches have been reviewed and compared over here to extract the tumor from set of brain images. This research focuses on the analysis of image segmentation methods, a comparison of five…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Muhammad Ali Qadar , Yan Zhaowen

Deep learning-based computer-aided diagnosis has achieved unprecedented performance in breast cancer detection. However, most approaches are computationally intensive, which impedes their broader dissemination in real-world applications. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-14 Jiaqiao Shi , Aleksandar Vakanski , Min Xian , Jianrui Ding , Chunping Ning

Correctly assessing the malignancy of breast lesions identified during ultrasound examinations is crucial for effective clinical decision-making. However, the current "golden standard" relies on manual BI-RADS scoring by clinicians, often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Alek Fröhlich , Thiago Ramos , Gustavo Cabello , Isabela Buzatto , Rafael Izbicki , Daniel Tiezzi

Medical imaging plays a critical role in the diagnosis and treatment planning of various medical conditions, with radiology and pathology heavily reliant on precise image segmentation. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Amin Ranem , Niklas Babendererde , Moritz Fuchs , Anirban Mukhopadhyay

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used for medical image segmentation. In most studies, only the output layer is exploited to compute the final segmentation results and the hidden representations of the deep learned…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Sheng He , Yanfang Feng , P. Ellen Grant , Yangming Ou

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an important diagnostic tool for precise detection of various pathologies. Magnetic Resonance (MR) is more preferred than Computed Tomography (CT) due to the high resolution in MR images which help in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Pranay Manocha , Snehal Bhasme , Tanvi Gupta , BK Panigrahi , Tapan K. Gandhi

Skin lesion segmentation is one of the crucial steps for an efficient non-invasive computer-aided early diagnosis of melanoma. This paper investigates how color information, besides saliency, can be used to determine the pigmented lesion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-08 Giuliana Ramella

Medical image processing usually requires a model trained with carefully crafted datasets due to unique image characteristics and domain-specific challenges, especially in pathology. Primitive detection and segmentation in digitized tissue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Abu Bakor Hayat Arnob , Xiangxue Wang , Yiping Jiao , Xiao Gan , Wenlong Ming , Jun Xu

Collagen, a key structural component of the extracellular matrix, undergoes significant remodeling during carcinogenesis. However, the important role of collagen levels in breast cancer diagnostics still lacks effective in vivo detection…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-14 Jiayan Li , Lu Bai , Yingna Chen , Junmei Cao , Jingtao Zhu , Wanxiang Zhi , Qian Cheng

From the simple measurement of tissue attributes in pathology workflow to designing an explainable diagnostic/prognostic AI tool, access to accurate semantic segmentation of tissue regions in histology images is a prerequisite. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Mostafa Jahanifar , Neda Zamani Tajeddin , Navid Alemi Koohbanani , Nasir Rajpoot

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a pivotal tool for assessing cardiac function. Precise segmentation of cardiac structures is imperative for accurate cardiac functional evaluation. This paper introduces a semi-supervised model…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Hejun Huang , Zuguo Chen , Yi Huang , Guangqiang Luo , Chaoyang Chen , Youzhi Song

Breast cancer (BC) significantly contributes to cancer-related mortality in women, underscoring the criticality of early detection for optimal patient outcomes. A mammography is a key tool for identifying and diagnosing breast…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Muhammad Yaqub , Feng Jinchao

Mammography is the most widely used gold standard for screening breast cancer, where, mass detection is considered as the prominent step. Detecting mass in the breast is, however, an arduous problem as they usually have large variations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Md. Kamrul Hasan , Tajwar Abrar Aleef

Incorporating human domain knowledge for breast tumor diagnosis is challenging, since shape, boundary, curvature, intensity, or other common medical priors vary significantly across patients and cannot be employed. This work proposes a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-03 Aleksandar Vakanski , Min Xian , Phoebe Freer

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) has become a standard clinical practice for tumor downsizing in breast cancer with 18F-FDG Positron Emission Tomography (PET). Our work aims to leverage PET imaging for the segmentation of breast lesions. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Tewele W. Tareke , Neree Payan , Alexandre Cochet , Laurent Arnould , Benoit Presles , Jean-Marc Vrigneaud , Fabrice Meriaudeau , Alain Lalande

Automated segmentation of ultrasound images can assist medical experts with diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Although using the common modality of ultrasound, one typically needs separate datasets in order to segment, for example,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Dongik Shin , Beomsuk Kim , Seungjun Baek

PET imaging is an invaluable tool in clinical settings as it captures the functional activity of both healthy anatomy and cancerous lesions. Developing automatic lesion segmentation methods for PET images is crucial since manual lesion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Tanya Gatsak , Kumar Abhishek , Hanene Ben Yedder , Saeid Asgari Taghanaki , Ghassan Hamarneh

Automatic segmentation of breast tumors from the ultrasound images is essential for the subsequent clinical diagnosis and treatment plan. Although the existing deep learning-based methods have achieved significant progress in automatic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Xing Yang , Jian Zhang , Qijian Chen , Li Wang , Lihui Wang