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Mammography is widely recognized as the most reliable technique for early detection of breast cancers. Automated or semi-automated computerized classification schemes can be very useful in assisting radiologists with a second opinion about…

Medical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Retico , P. Delogu , M. E. Fantacci , P. Kasae

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

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

Machine learning is widely used in developing computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) schemes of medical images. However, CAD usually computes large number of image features from the targeted regions, which creates a challenge of how to identify a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Morteza Heidari , Sivaramakrishnan Lakshmivarahan , Seyedehnafiseh Mirniaharikandehei , Gopichandh Danala , Sai Kiran R. Maryada , Hong Liu , Bin Zheng

Purpose: To assess whether breast lesion segmentation can be learned directly from acquired MRI k-space, and whether doing so improves robustness when data are accelerated or noisy. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Lukas T. Rotkopf , Marco Schlimbach , Julius C. Holzschuh , Heinz-Peter Schlemmer , Jens Kleesiek , Moritz Rempe

Lesion volume is an important predictor for prognosis in breast cancer. We make a step towards a more accurate lesion volume measurement on digital mammograms by developing a model that allows to estimate lesion volumes on processed…

Ultrasound imaging plays an important role in breast lesion differentiation. However, diagnostic accuracy depends on ultrasonographer experience. Various computer aided diagnosis systems has been developed to improve breast cancer detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Michał Byra , Katarzyna Dobruch-Sobczak , Hanna Piotrzkowska-Wróblewska , Andrzej Nowicki

New statistical methods were employed to improve the ability to distinguish benign from malignant breast tissue ex vivo in a recent study. The ultimately aim was to improve the intraoperative assessment of positive tumour margins in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-05-04 A Santaolalla , M Sheikh , M Van Hemelrijck , A Portieri , ACC Coolen

Mammography is the most effective and available tool for breast cancer screening. However, the low positive predictive value of breast biopsy resulting from mammogram interpretation leads to approximately 70% unnecessary biopsies with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Sahar A. Mokhtar , Alaa. M. Elsayad

Mammography and ultrasound are extensively used by radiologists as complementary modalities to achieve better performance in breast cancer diagnosis. However, existing computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems for the breast are generally…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-24 Gavriel Habib , Nahum Kiryati , Miri Sklair-Levy , Anat Shalmon , Osnat Halshtok Neiman , Renata Faermann Weidenfeld , Yael Yagil , Eli Konen , Arnaldo Mayer

Reliable classification of benign and malignant lesions in breast ultrasound images can provide an effective and relatively low cost method for early diagnosis of breast cancer. The accuracy of the diagnosis is however highly dependent on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-24 Elham Yousef Kalaf , Ata Jodeiri , Seyed Kamaledin Setarehdan , Ng Wei Lin , Kartini Binti Rahman , Nur Aishah Taib , Sarinder Kaur Dhillon

In this study, the main objective is to develop an algorithm capable of identifying and delineating tumor regions in breast ultrasound (BUS) and mammographic images. The technique employs two advanced deep learning architectures, namely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-14 Mohsen Ahmadi , Masoumeh Farhadi Nia , Sara Asgarian , Kasra Danesh , Elyas Irankhah , Ahmad Gholizadeh Lonbar , Abbas Sharifi

Segmenting a MRI images into homogeneous texture regions representing disparate tissue types is often a useful preprocessing step in the computer-assisted detection of breast cancer. That is why we proposed new algorithm to detect cancer in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-01-26 H. B. Kekre , Tanuja K. Sarode , Saylee M. Gharge

Automatic image segmentation becomes very crucial for tumor detection in medical image processing.In general, manual and semi automatic segmentation techniques require more time and knowledge. However these drawbacks had overcome by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-09 D. Anithadevi , K. Perumal

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

Accurate delineation of pancreatic tumors is critical for diagnosis, treatment planning, and outcome assessment, yet automated segmentation remains challenging due to anatomical variability and limited dataset availability. In this study,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Keshav Jha , William Sharp , Dominic LaBella

Purpose: To develop a deep network architecture that would achieve fully automated radiologist-level segmentation of cancers at breast MRI. Materials and Methods: In this retrospective study, 38229 examinations (composed of 64063 individual…

Medical segmentation is performed to determine the bounds of regions of interest (ROI) prior to surgery. By allowing the study of growth, structure, and behaviour of the ROI in the planning phase, critical information can be obtained,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Bao Nguyen , Adam Feldman , Sarath Bethapudi , Andrew Jennings , Chris G. Willcocks

Background \& purpose: The recent emergence of neural networks models for the analysis of breast images has been a breakthrough in computer aided diagnostic. This approach was not yet developed in Contrast Enhanced Spectral Mammography…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-01 Clément Jailin , Pablo Milioni , Zhijin Li , Răzvan Iordache , Serge Muller

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a potent diagnostic tool for detecting pathological tissues in various diseases. Different MRI sequences have different contrast mechanisms and sensitivities for different types of lesions, which pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Lijun Yan , Churan Wang , Fangwei Zhong , Yizhou Wang