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Breast cancer (BC) significantly contributes to cancer-related mortality in women, underscoring the criticality of early detection for optimal patient outcomes. A mammography is a key tool for identifying and diagnosing breast…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Muhammad Yaqub , Feng Jinchao

Computer-aided detection or decision support systems aim to improve breast cancer screening programs by helping radiologists to evaluate digital mammography (DM) exams. Commonly such methods proceed in two steps: selection of candidate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Timothy de Moor , Alejandro Rodriguez-Ruiz , Albert Gubern Mérida , Ritse Mann , Jonas Teuwen

Mammography is a vital screening technique for early revealing and identification of breast cancer in order to assist to decrease mortality rate. Practical applications of mammograms are not limited to breast cancer revealing,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-08 Aparna Bhale , Manish Joshi

Breast density estimation is one of the key tasks in recognizing individuals predisposed to breast cancer. It is often challenging because of low contrast and fluctuations in mammograms' fatty tissue background. Most of the time, the breast…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Vikash Gupta , Mutlu Demirer , Robert W. Maxwell , Richard D. White , Barbaros Selnur Erdal

Breast tissue segmentation into dense and fat tissue is important for determining the breast density in mammograms. Knowing the breast density is important both in diagnostic and computer-aided detection applications. There are many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Mario Muštra , Mislav Grgić

Breast cancer is a significant global health issue, and the diagnosis of breast cancer through imaging remains challenging. Mammography images are characterized by extremely high resolution, while lesions often occupy only a small portion…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-28 Shilong Yang , Chulong Zhang , Xiaokun Liang , Qi Zang , Juan Yu , Liang Zeng , Xiao Luo , Yexuan Xing , Xin Pan , Qi Li , Linlin Shen , Yaoqin Xie

A system for the automated detection of massive lesions in mammograms is presented. The approach we adopted is a pixel-based and multi-level one. Each pixel in a mammogram is flagged with the appropriate class membership, e.g. massive…

Medical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ilaria Gori , Alessandra Retico

The task of classifying mammograms is very challenging because the lesion is usually small in the high resolution image. The current state-of-the-art approaches for medical image classification rely on using the de-facto method for ConvNets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Tao Wei , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero , Shuo Wang , Yuan Huang , Fiona J Gilbert , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Chang Wen Chen

We investigate the addition of symmetry and temporal context information to a deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with the purpose of detecting malignant soft tissue lesions in mammography. We employ a simple linear mapping that takes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Thijs Kooi , Nico Karssemeijer

Deep neural networks (DNNs) show promise in breast cancer screening, but their robustness to input perturbations must be better understood before they can be clinically implemented. There exists extensive literature on this subject in the…

Breast cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women worldwide, with mammography screening as the most effective method for the early detection. Ensuring proper positioning in mammography is critical, as poor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Toygar Tanyel , Nurper Denizoglu , Mustafa Ege Seker , Deniz Alis , Esma Cerekci , Ercan Karaarslan , Erkin Aribal , Ilkay Oksuz

The clinical management of breast cancer depends on an accurate understanding of the tumor and its anatomical context to adjacent tissues and landmark structures. This context may be provided by semantic segmentation methods; however,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Arda Pekis , Vignesh Kannan , Evandros Kaklamanos , Anu Antony , Snehal Patel , Tyler Earnest

Mammographic image analysis requires accurate localisation of salient mammographic masses. In mammographic computer-aided diagnosis, mass or Region of Interest (ROI) is often marked by physicians and features are extracted from the marked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Shamna Pootheri , Govindan V K

Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease with different molecular subtypes, clinical behavior, treatment responses as well as survival outcomes. The development of a reliable, accurate, available and inexpensive method to predict the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Mohaddeseh Chegini , Ali Mahloojifar

Some recent studies have described deep convolutional neural networks to diagnose breast cancer in mammograms with similar or even superior performance to that of human experts. One of the best techniques does two transfer learnings: the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Daniel G. P. Petrini , Carlos Shimizu , Rosimeire A. Roela , Gabriel V. Valente , Maria A. A. K. Folgueira , Hae Yong Kim

We present, for the first time, a novel deep neural network architecture called \dcn with a dual-path connection between the input image and output class label for mammogram image processing. This architecture is built upon U-Net, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Heyi Li , Dongdong Chen , William H. Nailon , Mike E. Davies , Dave Laurenson

Automatization of the diagnosis of any kind of disease is of great importance and it's gaining speed as more and more deep learning solutions are applied to different problems. One of such computer aided systems could be a decision support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Tomas Iesmantas , Robertas Alzbutas

Breast Ultrasound plays a vital role in cancer diagnosis as a non-invasive approach with cost-effective. In recent years, with the development of deep learning, many CNN-based approaches have been widely researched in both tumor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Dat T. Chung , Minh-Anh Dang , Mai-Anh Vu , Minh T. Nguyen , Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Vinh Q. Dinh

Breast cancer is the most common cancers and early detection from mammography screening is crucial in improving patient outcomes. Assessing mammographic breast density is clinically important as the denser breasts have higher risk and are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Charles Lu , Ken Chang , Praveer Singh , Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer

Millions of people are affected by acute and chronic wounds yearly across the world. Continuous wound monitoring is important for wound specialists to allow more accurate diagnosis and optimization of management protocols. Machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Behrouz Rostami , Jeffrey Niezgoda , Sandeep Gopalakrishnan , Zeyun Yu