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Breast cancer is a prominent health concern worldwide, currently being the secondmost common and second-deadliest type of cancer in women. While current breast cancer diagnosis mainly relies on mammography imaging, in recent years the use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Tamir Shor , Chaim Baskin , Alex Bronstein

Breast Ultrasound plays a vital role in cancer diagnosis as a non-invasive approach with cost-effective. In recent years, with the development of deep learning, many CNN-based approaches have been widely researched in both tumor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Dat T. Chung , Minh-Anh Dang , Mai-Anh Vu , Minh T. Nguyen , Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Vinh Q. Dinh

Breast cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related mortality among women worldwide. Ultrasound imaging, widely used due to its safety and cost-effectiveness, plays a key role in early detection, especially in patients with dense breast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Mohammad Abbadi , Yassine Himeur , Shadi Atalla , Wathiq Mansoor

Breast ultrasound imaging is a valuable tool for early breast cancer detection, but automated tumor segmentation is challenging due to inherent noise, variations in scale of lesions, and fuzzy boundaries. To address these challenges, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Muhammad Azeem Aslam , Asim Naveed , Nisar Ahmed

Image segmentation some of the challenging issues on brain magnetic resonance image tumor segmentation caused by the weak correlation between magnetic resonance imaging intensity and anatomical meaning.With the objective of utilizing more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-25 Narkhede Sachin G. , Vaishali Khairnar , Sujata Kadu

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 cancer has reached the highest incidence rate worldwide among all malignancies since 2020. Breast imaging plays a significant role in early diagnosis and intervention to improve the outcome of breast cancer patients. In the past…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Luyang Luo , Xi Wang , Yi Lin , Xiaoqi Ma , Andong Tan , Ronald Chan , Varut Vardhanabhuti , Winnie CW Chu , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Hao Chen

Automatic segmentation of the placenta in fetal ultrasound (US) is challenging due to the (i) high diversity of placenta appearance, (ii) the restricted quality in US resulting in highly variable reference annotations, and (iii) the limited…

Image Processing represents the backbone research area within engineering and computer science specialization. It is promptly growing technologies today, and its applications founded in various aspects of biomedical fields especially in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-05 Osama Rezq Shahin , Hamdy Mohammed Kelash , Gamal Mahrous Attiya , Osama Slah Farg Allah

Breast cancer is one of the most common causes of death among women worldwide, with millions of fatalities annually. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) can provide various sequences for characterizing tumor morphology and internal patterns,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jingxing Zhong , Qingtao Pan , Xuchang Zhou , Jiazhen Lin , Xinguo Zhuang

Prostate cancer represents a major threat to health. Early detection is vital in reducing the mortality rate among prostate cancer patients. One approach involves using multi-modality (CT, MRI, US, etc.) computer-aided diagnosis (CAD)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-10 Rui Jin , Derun Li , Dehui Xiang , Lei Zhang , Hailing Zhou , Fei Shi , Weifang Zhu , Jing Cai , Tao Peng , Xinjian Chen

The focus of this paper is to review approaches for segmentation of breast regions in mammograms according to breast density. Studies based on density have been undertaken because of the relationship between breast cancer and density.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-09-26 Nafiza Saidin , Harsa Amylia Mat Sakim , Umi Kalthum Ngah , Ibrahim Lutfi Shuaib

Breast cancer is the most common invasive cancer in women. Besides the primary B-mode ultrasound screening, sonographers have explored the inclusion of Doppler, strain and shear-wave elasticity imaging to advance the diagnosis. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-11 Wang Jian , Miao Juzheng , Yang Xin , Li Rui , Zhou Guangquan , Huang Yuhao , Lin Zehui , Xue Wufeng , Jia Xiaohong , Zhou Jianqiao , Huang Ruobing , Ni Dong

Automatic breast lesion segmentation in ultrasound helps to diagnose breast cancer, which is one of the dreadful diseases that affect women globally. Segmenting breast regions accurately from ultrasound image is a challenging task due to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Cheng Xue , Lei Zhu , Huazhu Fu , Xiaowei Hu , Xiaomeng Li , Hai Zhang , Pheng Ann Heng

In healthcare, it is essential to explain the decision-making process of machine learning models to establish the trustworthiness of clinicians. This paper introduces BI-RADS-Net, a novel explainable deep learning approach for cancer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Boyu Zhang , Aleksandar Vakanski , Min Xian

Background: Breast density, as derived from mammographic images and defined by the American College of Radiology's Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS), is one of the strongest risk factors for breast cancer. Breast ultrasound…

Medical imaging is an essential tool in many areas of medical applications, used for both diagnosis and treatment. However, reading medical images and making diagnosis or treatment recommendations require specially trained medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Wentao Zhu

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

Breast cancer is a disease that threatens many women's life, thus, early and accurate detection plays a key role in reducing the mortality rate. Mammography stands as the reference technique for breast cancer screening; nevertheless, many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Juan Zuluaga-Gomez , N. Zerhouni , Z. Al Masry , C. Devalland , C. Varnier

Breast ultrasound (BUS) image segmentation plays a crucial role in a computer-aided diagnosis system, which is regarded as a useful tool to help increase the accuracy of breast cancer diagnosis. Recently, many deep learning methods have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-24 Zhenyuan Ning , Ke Wang , Shengzhou Zhong , Qianjin Feng , Yu Zhang