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Lung nodule classification is a class imbalanced problem, as nodules are found with much lower frequency than non-nodules. In the class imbalanced problem, conventional classifiers tend to be overwhelmed by the majority class and ignore the…

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Lung cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide, with early and accurate diagnosis playing a pivotal role in improving patient outcomes. Automated detection of pulmonary nodules in computed tomography…

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Lung cancer is a leading cause of death in most countries of the world. Since prompt diagnosis of tumors can allow oncologists to discern their nature, type and the mode of treatment, tumor detection and segmentation from CT Scan images is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Farhanaz Farheen , Md. Salman Shamil , Nabil Ibtehaz , M. Sohel Rahman

Automating tissue segmentation and tumor detection in histopathology images of colorectal cancer (CRC) is an enabler for faster diagnostic pathology workflows. At the same time it is a challenging task due to low availability of public…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-07 Lydia A. Schoenpflug , Maxime W. Lafarge , Anja L. Frei , Viktor H. Koelzer

The use of deep learning (DL) in medical image analysis has significantly improved the ability to predict lung cancer. In this study, we introduce a novel deep convolutional neural network (CNN) model, named ResNet+, which is based on the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Ahmad Chaddad , Jihao Peng , Yihang Wu

We present a deep learning framework for computer-aided lung cancer diagnosis. Our multi-stage framework detects nodules in 3D lung CAT scans, determines if each nodule is malignant, and finally assigns a cancer probability based on these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Kingsley Kuan , Mathieu Ravaut , Gaurav Manek , Huiling Chen , Jie Lin , Babar Nazir , Cen Chen , Tse Chiang Howe , Zeng Zeng , Vijay Chandrasekhar

Computed tomography (CT) examinations are commonly used to predict lung nodule malignancy in patients, which are shown to improve noninvasive early diagnosis of lung cancer. It remains challenging for computational approaches to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Jason Causey , Junyu Zhang , Shiqian Ma , Bo Jiang , Jake Qualls , David G. Politte , Fred Prior , Shuzhong Zhang , Xiuzhen Huang

Detection of pulmonary nodules by CT is used for screening lung cancer in early stages.omputer aided diagnosis (CAD) based on deep-learning method can identify the suspected areas of pulmonary nodules in CT images, thus improving the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-24 Yang Liu , Yue-Jie Hou , Chen-Xin Qin , Xin-Hui Li , Si-Jing Li , Bin Wang , Chi-Chun Zhou

Accurate pulmonary nodule detection is a crucial step in lung cancer screening. Computer-aided detection (CAD) systems are not routinely used by radiologists for pulmonary nodule detection in clinical practice despite their potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Sunyi Zheng , Jiapan Guo , Xiaonan Cui , Raymond N. J. Veldhuis , Matthijs Oudkerk , Peter M. A. van Ooijen

Early detection of pulmonary nodules in computed tomography (CT) images is essential for successful outcomes among lung cancer patients. Much attention has been given to deep convolutional neural network (DCNN)-based approaches to this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Hao Tang , Daniel R. Kim , Xiaohui Xie

Lung nodule detection is a class imbalanced problem because nodules are found with much lower frequency than non-nodules. In the class imbalanced problem, conventional classifiers tend to be overwhelmed by the majority class and ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Masaharu Sakamoto , Hiroki Nakano

Early and accurate diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) is crucial for making treatment decisions, but can be challenging even for experienced radiologists. The diagnostic procedure is based on the detection and recognition of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Marios Anthimopoulos , Stergios Christodoulidis , Lukas Ebner , Thomas Geiser , Andreas Christe , Stavroula Mougiakakou

Classification is one of the core problems in Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD), targeting for early cancer detection using 3D medical imaging interpretation. High detection sensitivity with desirably low false positive (FP) rate is critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Meizhu Liu , Le Lu , Xiaojing Ye , Shipeng Yu

The ability of deep learning to predict with uncertainty is recognized as key for its adoption in clinical routines. Moreover, performance gain has been enabled by modelling uncertainty according to empirical evidence. While previous work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Jiawei Yang , Yuan Liang , Yao Zhang , Weinan Song , Kun Wang , Lei He

In the cancer diagnosis pipeline, digital pathology plays an instrumental role in the identification, staging, and grading of malignant areas on biopsy tissue specimens. High resolution histology images are subject to high variance in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-17 Vasileios Magoulianitis , Catherine A. Alexander , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Pulmonary lobe segmentation is an important preprocessing task for the analysis of lung diseases. Traditional methods relying on fissure detection or other anatomical features, such as the distribution of pulmonary vessels and airways,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-23 Jingnan Jia , Zhiwei Zhai , M. Els Bakker , I. Hernandez Giron , Marius Staring , Berend C. Stoel

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

Detection and classification of pulmonary nodules is a challenge in medical image analysis due to the variety of shapes and sizes of nodules and their high concealment. Despite the success of traditional deep learning methods in image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-28 Junji Lin , Yi Zhang , Yunyue Pan , Yuli Chen , Chengchang Pan , Honggang Qi

Lung cancer (LC) ranks among the most frequently diagnosed cancers and is one of the most common causes of death for men and women worldwide. Computed Tomography (CT) images are the most preferred diagnosis method because of their low cost…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Mobarak Abumohsen , Enrique Costa-Montenegro , Silvia García-Méndez , Amani Yousef Owda , Majdi Owda

This research presents a machine-learning approach for tumor detection in medical images using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The study focuses on preprocessing techniques to enhance image features relevant to tumor detection,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-01 Ha Anh Vu