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Nutritional interventions are important for managing chronic health conditions, but current computational methods provide limited support for personalized dietary guidance. We identify three key gaps: (1) dietary pattern studies often…

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Background: People's health depends on the use of proper diet as an important factor. Today, with the increasing mechanization of people's lives, proper eating habits and behaviors are neglected. On the other hand, food recommendations in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Abolfazl Ajami , Babak Teimourpour

Traditional diagnostic methods like colonoscopy are invasive yet critical tools necessary for accurately diagnosing colorectal cancer (CRC). Detection of CRC at early stages is crucial for increasing patient survival rates. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Xinliu Zhong , Leo Hwa Liang , Angela S. Koh , Yeo Si Yong

Medical image analysis typically includes several tasks such as enhancement, segmentation, and classification. Traditionally, these tasks are implemented using separate deep learning models for separate tasks, which is not efficient because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Ghada Zamzmi , Sivaramakrishnan Rajaraman , Sameer Antani

Monitoring dietary intake is a crucial aspect of promoting healthy living. In recent years, advances in computer vision technology have facilitated dietary intake monitoring through the use of images and depth cameras. However, the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Aaryam Sharma , Chris Czarnecki , Yuhao Chen , Pengcheng Xi , Linlin Xu , Alexander Wong

Food is not only essential to human health but also serves as a medium for cultural identity and emotional connection. In the context of precision nutrition, accurately identifying and classifying food images is critical for dietary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Lulu Liu , Zhiyong Xiao

We aim to estimate food portion size, a property that is strongly related to the presence of food object in 3D space, from single monocular images under real life setting. Specifically, we are interested in end-to-end estimation of food…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Zeman Shao , Shaobo Fang , Runyu Mao , Jiangpeng He , Janine Wright , Deborah Kerr , Carol Jo Boushey , Fengqing Zhu

Food image classification is challenging for real-world applications since existing methods require static datasets for training and are not capable of learning from sequentially available new food images. Online continual learning aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

Early cancer detection remains one of the most critical challenges in modern healthcare, where delayed diagnosis significantly reduces survival outcomes. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence, particularly deep learning, have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Emmanuella Avwerosuoghene Oghenekaro

Multi-task learning (MTL) is a powerful approach in deep learning that leverages the information from multiple tasks during training to improve model performance. In medical imaging, MTL has shown great potential to solve various tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Sangwook Kim , Thomas G. Purdie , Chris McIntosh

An accurate and timely detection of diseases and pests in rice plants can help farmers in applying timely treatment on the plants and thereby can reduce the economic losses substantially. Recent developments in deep learning based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Chowdhury Rafeed Rahman , Preetom Saha Arko , Mohammed Eunus Ali , Mohammad Ashik Iqbal Khan , Sajid Hasan Apon , Farzana Nowrin , Abu Wasif

An abdominal ultrasound examination, which is the most common ultrasound examination, requires substantial manual efforts to acquire standard abdominal organ views, annotate the views in texts, and record clinically relevant organ…

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An ensemble method that fuses the output decision vectors of multiple feedforward-designed convolutional neural networks (FF-CNNs) to solve the image classification problem is proposed in this work. To enhance the performance of the…

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Tissue characterization has long been an important component of Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems for automatic lesion detection and further clinical planning. Motivated by the superior performance of deep learning methods on various…

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Melanoma classification is a serious stage to identify the skin disease. It is considered a challenging process due to the intra-class discrepancy of melanomas, skin lesions low contrast, and the artifacts in the dermoscopy images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Yanhui Guo , Amira S. Ashour

Automatic dietary assessment based on food images remains a challenge, requiring precise food detection, segmentation, and classification. Vision-Language Models (VLMs) offer new possibilities by integrating visual and textual reasoning. In…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have become de fact state-of-the-art for the main computer vision tasks. However, due to the complex underlying structure their decisions are hard to understand which limits their use in some context of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Nina Schaaf , Omar de Mitri , Hang Beom Kim , Alexander Windberger , Marco F. Huber

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) are increasingly applied to meal images for nutrition analysis. However, existing work primarily evaluates proprietary models, such as GPT-4. This leaves the broad range of LLMs underexplored. Additionally,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Bruce Coburn , Jiangpeng He , Megan E. Rollo , Satvinder S. Dhaliwal , Deborah A. Kerr , Fengqing Zhu

Surgical workflow analysis is of importance for understanding onset and persistence of surgical phases and individual tool usage across surgery and in each phase. It is beneficial for clinical quality control and to hospital administrators…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-28 Shanka Subhra Mondal , Rachana Sathish , Debdoot Sheet

In robotics, knowing the object states and recognizing the desired states are very important. Objects at different states would require different grasping. To achieve different states, different manipulations would be required, as well as…

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