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The transformative power of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in radiology diagnostics is examined in this study, with a focus on interpretability, effectiveness, and ethical issues. With an altered DenseNet architecture, the CNN…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Keshav Kumar K. , Dr N V S L Narasimham

Dense annotations, such as segmentation masks, are expensive and time-consuming to obtain, especially for 3D medical images where expert voxel-wise labeling is required. Weakly supervised approaches aim to address this limitation, but often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Richard Petersen , Fredrik Kahl , Jennifer Alvén

To predict lung nodule malignancy with a high sensitivity and specificity, we propose a fusion algorithm that combines handcrafted features (HF) into the features learned at the output layer of a 3D deep convolutional neural network (CNN).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Shulong Li , Panpan Xu , Bin Li , Liyuan Chen , Zhiguo Zhou , Hongxia Hao , Yingying Duan , Michael Folkert , Jianhua Ma , Steve Jiang , Jing Wang

This research studies the impact of high-quality training datasets on the performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in detecting strong gravitational lenses. We stress the importance of data diversity and representativeness,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-14 Samira Rezaei , Amirmohammad Chegeni , Bharath Chowdhary Nagam , J. P. McKean , Mitra Baratchi , Koen Kuijken , Léon V. E. Koopmans

Generating large quantities of quality labeled data in medical imaging is very time consuming and expensive. The performance of supervised algorithms for various tasks on imaging has improved drastically over the years, however the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Sejin Park , Woochan Hwang , Kyu Hwan Jung , Joon Beom Seo , Namkug Kim

Adopting Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in the daily routine of primary diagnosis requires not only near-perfect precision, but also a sufficient degree of generalization to data acquisition shifts and transparency. Existing CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Mara Graziani , Sebastian Otalora , Stephane Marchand-Maillet , Henning Muller , Vincent Andrearczyk

In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of deep learning techniques for lung nodule classification in computed tomography scans. Using less than 10,000 training examples, our deep networks perform two times better than a standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Aryan Mobiny , Supratik Moulik , Hien Van Nguyen

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) allow for parameter sharing and translational equivariance by using convolutional kernels in their linear layers. By restricting these kernels to be SO(3)-steerable, CNNs can further improve parameter…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-20 Ivan Diaz , Mario Geiger , Richard Iain McKinley

This study introduces a method for efficiently detecting objects within 3D point clouds using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Our approach adopts a unique feature-centric voting mechanism to construct convolutional layers that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Tianyi Lyu , Dian Gu , Peiyuan Chen , Yaoting Jiang , Zhenhong Zhang , Huadong Pang , Li Zhou , Yiping Dong

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. The best solution for lung cancer is to diagnose the pulmonary nodules in the early stage, which is usually accomplished with the aid of thoracic computed tomography (CT). As deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Rui Xu , Zhi Liu , Yong Luo , Han Hu , Li Shen , Bo Du , Kaiming Kuang , Jiancheng Yang

The early detection and early diagnosis of lung cancer are crucial to improve the survival rate of lung cancer patients. Pulmonary nodules detection results have a significant impact on the later diagnosis. In this work, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Tian Lan , Yuanyuan Li , Jonah Kimani Murugi , Yi Ding , Zhiguang Qin

Deep neural networks face many problems in the field of hyperspectral image classification, lack of effective utilization of spatial spectral information, gradient disappearance and overfitting as the model depth increases. In order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Guandong Li

Lung cancer has the highest rate of cancer-caused deaths, and early-stage diagnosis could increase the survival rate. Lung nodules are common indicators of lung cancer, making their detection crucial. Various lung nodule detection models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Saeed Shakuri , Alireza Rezvanian

Object detection, one of the three main tasks of computer vision, has been used in various applications. The main process is to use deep neural networks to extract the features of an image and then use the features to identify the class and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Wenshuo Li

We present a hybrid algorithm to estimate lung nodule malignancy that combines imaging biomarkers from Radiologist's annotation with image classification of CT scans. Our algorithm employs a 3D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) as well as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Kushal Mehta , Arshita Jain , Jayalakshmi Mangalagiri , Sumeet Menon , Phuong Nguyen , David R. Chapman

The novel corona virus (Covid-19) has introduced significant challenges due to its rapid spreading nature through respiratory transmission. As a result, there is a huge demand for Artificial Intelligence (AI) based quick disease diagnosis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-24 Thosini Bamunu Mudiyanselage , Nipuna Senanayake , Chunyan Ji , Yi Pan , Yanqing Zhang

To read the final version please go to IEEE TGRS on IEEE Xplore. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been attracting increasing attention in hyperspectral (HS) image classification, owing to their ability to capture spatial-spectral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Danfeng Hong , Lianru Gao , Jing Yao , Bing Zhang , Antonio Plaza , Jocelyn Chanussot

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are the state-of-the-art technique for identifying strong gravitational lenses. Although they are highly successful in recovering genuine lens systems with a high true-positive rate, the unbalanced…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) traditionally encode translation equivariance via the convolution operation. Generalization to other transformations has recently received attraction to encode the knowledge of the data geometry in group…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Vincent Andrearczyk , Adrien Depeursinge

This paper aims to accelerate the test-time computation of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), especially very deep CNNs that have substantially impacted the computer vision community. Unlike previous methods that are designed for…

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