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Automatic diagnosing lung cancer from Computed Tomography (CT) scans involves two steps: detect all suspicious lesions (pulmonary nodules) and evaluate the whole-lung/pulmonary malignancy. Currently, there are many studies about the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Fangzhou Liao , Ming Liang , Zhe Li , Xiaolin Hu , Sen Song

In this work, we present a fully automated lung computed tomography (CT) cancer diagnosis system, DeepLung. DeepLung consists of two components, nodule detection (identifying the locations of candidate nodules) and classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Wentao Zhu , Chaochun Liu , Wei Fan , Xiaohui Xie

Lung cancer remains one of the most common and deadliest forms of cancer worldwide. The likelihood of successful treatment depends strongly on the stage at which the disease is diagnosed. Therefore, early detection of lung cancer represents…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Volodymyr Sydorskyi

We address the problem of supporting radiologists in the longitudinal management of lung cancer. Therefore, we proposed a deep learning pipeline, composed of four stages that completely automatized from the detection of nodules to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-29 Xavier Rafael-Palou , Anton Aubanell , Mario Ceresa , Vicent Ribas , Gemma Piella , Miguel A. González Ballester

Pulmonary pathologies are a significant global health concern, often leading to fatal outcomes if not diagnosed and treated promptly. Chest radiography serves as a primary diagnostic tool, but the availability of experienced radiologists…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Abdelbaki Souid , Mohamed Hamroun , Soufiene Ben Othman , Hedi Sakli , Naceur Abdelkarim

Pulmonary nodules are critical indicators for the early diagnosis of lung cancer, making their detection essential for timely treatment. However, traditional CT imaging methods suffered from cumbersome procedures, low detection rates, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-29 Guohui Cai , Ruicheng Zhang , Hongyang He , Zeyu Zhang , Daji Ergu , Yuanzhouhan Cao , Jinman Zhao , Binbin Hu , Zhinbin Liao , Yang Zhao , Ying Cai

Lung cancer remains among the deadliest types of cancer in recent decades, and early lung nodule detection is crucial for improving patient outcomes. The limited availability of annotated medical imaging data remains a bottleneck in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Muniba Noreen , Furqan Shaukat

Lung cancer has been one of the major threats across the world with the highest mortalities. Computer-aided detection (CAD) can help in early detection and thus can help increase the survival rate. Accurate lung parenchyma segmentation (to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Muhammad Abdullah , Furqan Shaukat

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been demonstrated to be highly effective in the field of pulmonary nodule detection. However, existing CNN based pulmonary nodule detection methods lack the ability to capture long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Rui Xu , Yong Luo , Bo Du , Kaiming Kuang , Jiancheng Yang

The accurate classification of benign and malignant pulmonary nodules in CT scans is critical for early lung cancer screening, yet remains challenging due to the multi-scale and heterogeneous nature of pulmonary nodules. While deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jinyue Li , Yuzhou Yu , Jingjing Yang , Meng Fu , Yani Zhang , Shuyao He , Dianlong Ge , Xin Ning , Yannan Chu , Qiankun Li

We introduce a new computer aided detection and diagnosis system for lung cancer screening with low-dose CT scans that produces meaningful probability assessments. Our system is based entirely on 3D convolutional neural networks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Onur Ozdemir , Rebecca L. Russell , Andrew A. Berlin

Lung cancer follow-up is a complex, error prone, and time consuming task for clinical radiologists. Several lung CT scan images taken at different time points of a given patient need to be individually inspected, looking for possible…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-24 Xavier Rafael-Palou , Anton Aubanell , Ilaria Bonavita , Mario Ceresa , Gemma Piella , Vicent Ribas , Miguel Ángel González Ballester

Pulmonary nodule detection using low-dose Computed Tomography (CT) is often the first step in lung disease screening and diagnosis. Recently, algorithms based on deep convolutional neural nets have shown great promise for automated nodule…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Hao Tang , Xingwei Liu , Xiaohui Xie

Lung cancer, a severe form of malignant tumor that originates in the tissues of the lungs, can be fatal if not detected in its early stages. It ranks among the top causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Detecting lung cancer manually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Santanu Roy , Shweta Singh , Palak Sahu , Ashvath Suresh , Debashish Das

Lung nodule detection from 3D Computed Tomography scans plays a vital role in efficient lung cancer screening. Despite the SOTA performance obtained by recent anchor-based detectors using CNNs for this task, they require predetermined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Xiangde Luo , Tao Song , Guotai Wang , Jieneng Chen , Yinan Chen , Kang Li , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Shaoting Zhang

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Early diagnosis of pulmonary nodules in Computed Tomography (CT) chest scans provides an opportunity for designing effective treatment and making financial and care plans.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Raunak Dey , Zhongjie Lu , Yi Hong

Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, and early detection is crucial for improving patient outcomes. Nevertheless, early diagnosis of cancer is a major challenge, particularly in low-resource settings where…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Samiul Based Shuvo , Tasnia Binte Mamun

Pulmonary nodule detection, false positive reduction and segmentation represent three of the most common tasks in the computeraided analysis of chest CT images. Methods have been proposed for eachtask with deep learning based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Hao Tang , Chupeng Zhang , Xiaohui Xie

This paper proposes a novel and efficient method to build a Computer-Aided Diagnoses (CAD) system for lung nodule detection based on Computed Tomography (CT). This task was treated as an Object Detection on Video (VID) problem by imitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Ning Li , Haopeng Liu , Bin Qiu , Wei Guo , Shijun Zhao , Kungang Li , Jie He

Lung cancer is the most common form of cancer found worldwide with a high mortality rate. Early detection of pulmonary nodules by screening with a low-dose computed tomography (CT) scan is crucial for its effective clinical management.…

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