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The automated detection of cancerous tumors has attracted interest mainly during the last decade, due to the necessity of early and efficient diagnosis that will lead to the most effective possible treatment of the impending risk. Several…

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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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Due to its predominantly asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic progression, lung cancer is often diagnosed in advanced stages, resulting in poorer survival rates for patients. As with other cancers, early detection significantly improves the…

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

Lung cancer is highly lethal, emphasizing the critical need for early detection. However, identifying lung nodules poses significant challenges for radiologists, who rely heavily on their expertise for accurate diagnosis. To address this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Hossein Jafari , Karim Faez , Hamidreza Amindavar

Automated medical image segmentation is a priority research area for computational methods. In particular, detection of cancerous tumors represents a current challenge in this area with potential for real-world impact. This paper describes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-06 Jamie A. O'Reilly , Manas Sangworasil , Takenobu Matsuura

Tumor segmentation from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data is an important but time consuming manual task performed by medical experts. Automating this process is a challenging task because of the high diversity in the appearance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-24 Sudipta Roy , Sanjay Nag , Indra Kanta Maitra , Samir Kumar Bandyopadhyay

One of the most effective ways to treat liver cancer is to perform precise liver resection surgery, the key step of which includes precise digital image segmentation of the liver and its tumor. However, traditional liver parenchymal…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-11 Danyi Huang , Ziang Liu , Yizhou Li

Recent studies have shown that lung cancer screening using annual low-dose computed tomography (CT) reduces lung cancer mortality by 20% compared to traditional chest radiography. Therefore, CT lung screening has started to be used widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Gorkem Polat , Ugur Halici , Yesim Serinagaoglu Dogrusoz

Lung cancer remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, making early diagnosis critical for improving therapeutic outcomes and patient prognosis. Computer-aided diagnosis systems, which analyze computed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Guohui Cai , Ying Cai , Zeyu Zhang , Yuanzhouhan Cao , Lin Wu , Daji Ergu , Zhinbin Liao , Yang Zhao

Early detection of lung cancer is critical for improvement of patient survival. To address the clinical need for efficacious treatments, genetically engineered mouse models (GEMM) have become integral in identifying and evaluating the…

Liver cancer is one of the most prevalent and lethal forms of cancer, making early detection crucial for effective treatment. This paper introduces a novel approach for automated liver tumor segmentation in computed tomography (CT) images…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Nastaran Ghorbani , Bitasadat Jamshidi , Mohsen Rostamy-Malkhalifeh

Brain tumor segmentation is one of the most challenging problems in medical image analysis. The goal of brain tumor segmentation is to generate accurate delineation of brain tumor regions. In recent years, deep learning methods have shown…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Zhihua Liu , Lei Tong , Zheheng Jiang , Long Chen , Feixiang Zhou , Qianni Zhang , Xiangrong Zhang , Yaochu Jin , Huiyu Zhou

Mammography images are widely used to detect non-palpable breast lesions or nodules, preventing cancer and providing the opportunity to plan interventions when necessary. The identification of some structures of interest is essential to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Cesar A. Sierra-Franco , Jan Hurtado , Victor de A. Thomaz , Leonardo C. da Cruz , Santiago V. Silva , Alberto B. Raposo

Automated brain tumour segmentation has the potential of making a massive improvement in disease diagnosis, surgery, monitoring and surveillance. However, this task is extremely challenging. Here, we describe our automated segmentation…

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We propose a fully-automated method for accurate and robust detection and segmentation of potentially cancerous lesions found in the liver and in lymph nodes. The process is performed in three steps, including organ detection, lesion…

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An automatic segmentation algorithm for delineation of the gross tumour volume and pathologic lymph nodes of head and neck cancers in PET/CT images is described. The proposed algorithm is based on a convolutional neural network using the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-05 Yngve Mardal Moe , Aurora Rosvoll Groendahl , Martine Mulstad , Oliver Tomic , Ulf Indahl , Einar Dale , Eirik Malinen , Cecilia Marie Futsaether

Brain tumor analysis in MRI images is a significant and challenging issue because misdiagnosis can lead to death. Diagnosis and evaluation of brain tumors in the early stages increase the probability of successful treatment. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-30 Zahra Sobhaninia , Nader Karimi , Pejman Khadivi , Shadrokh Samavi

As Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) have shown robust performance and results in medical image analysis, a number of deep-learning-based tumor detection methods were developed in recent years. Nowadays, the automatic detection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Zhengdong Zhang , Shuai Li , Ziyang Wang , Yun Lu

Computational pathology is part of precision oncology medicine. The integration of high-throughput data including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, pathomics, and radiomics into clinical practice improves cancer treatment…

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