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In this paper we present a novel method for an automated diagnosis of breast carcinoma through multilevel iterative variational mode decomposition (VMD) and textural features encompassing Zernaike moments, fractal dimension and entropy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Subhankar Chattoraj , Karan Vishwakarma

Breast cancer continues to be a significant cause of mortality among women globally. Timely identification and precise diagnosis of breast abnormalities are critical for enhancing patient prognosis. In this study, we focus on improving the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-29 Jun Bai , Annie Jin , Madison Adams , Clifford Yang , Sheida Nabavi

A biopsy is the only diagnostic procedure for accurate histological confirmation of breast cancer. When sonographic placement is not feasible, a Magnetic Resonance Imaging(MRI)-guided biopsy is often preferred. The lack of real-time imaging…

In the last decade, researchers working in the domain of computer vision and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have beefed up their efforts to come up with the automated framework that not only detects but also identifies stage of breast cancer.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-10 Shahid Munir Shah , Rizwan Ahmed Khan , Sheeraz Arif , Unaiza Sajid

Digital mammogram inspection is the most popular technique for early detection of abnormalities in human breast tissue. When mammograms are analyzed through a computational method, the presence of the pectoral muscle might affect the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Jairo A. Ayala-Godoy , Rosa E. Lillo , Juan Romo

Traditional breast cancer imaging methods using microwave Nearfield Radar Imaging (NRI) seek to recover the complex permittivity of the tissues at each voxel in the imaging region. This approach is suboptimal, in that it does not directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Richard Obermeier , Jose Angel Martinez-Lorenzo

Breast cancer remains a global challenge, causing over 1 million deaths globally in 2018. To achieve earlier breast cancer detection, screening x-ray mammography is recommended by health organizations worldwide and has been estimated to…

Breast cancer is one of the most common and prevalent type of cancer that mainly affects the women population. chances of effective treatment increases with early diagnosis. Mammography is considered one of the effective and proven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Bilal Ahmed Lodhi

Brightness mode (B-mode) ultrasound is a common imaging modality in the clinical assessment of several cardiovascular diseases. The utility of ultrasound-based functional indices such as the ejection fraction (EF) and stroke volume (SV) is…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Tanmay Mukherjee , Sunder Neelakantan , Kyle Myers , Carl Tong , Reza Avazmohammadi

Design-space dimensionality reduction is essential to mitigate the cost of high-fidelity simulation-based optimization, especially when dealing with high-dimensional geometric parameterizations. Traditional linear techniques, such as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Andrea Serani , Giorgio Palma , Jeroen Wackers , Domenico Quagliarella , Stefano Gaggero , Matteo Diez

Mammography stands as the main screening method for detecting breast cancer early, enhancing treatment success rates. The segmentation of landmark structures in mammography images can aid the medical assessment in the evaluation of cancer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Jan Hurtado , Joao P. Maia , Cesar A. Sierra-Franco , Alberto Raposo

Elucidating the biomechanical behavior of the myocardium is crucial for understanding cardiac physiology, but cannot be directly inferred from clinical imaging and typically requires finite element (FE) simulations. However, conventional FE…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Siyu Mu , Wei Xuan Chan , Choon Hwai Yap

In this paper, we introduce a completion framework to reconstruct the geometric shapes of various anatomies, including organs, vessels and muscles. Our work targets a scenario where one or multiple anatomies are missing in the imaging data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Jianning Li , Antonio Pepe , Gijs Luijten , Christina Schwarz-Gsaxner , Jens Kleesiek , Jan Egger

Tumor saliency estimation aims to localize tumors by modeling the visual stimuli in medical images. However, it is a challenging task for breast ultrasound due to the complicated anatomic structure of the breast and poor image quality; and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Fei Xu , Yingtao Zhang , Min Xian , H. D. Cheng , Boyu Zhang , Jianrui Ding , Chunping Ning , Ying Wang

Purpose: The scarcity of high-quality curated labeled medical training data remains one of the major limitations in applying artificial intelligence (AI) systems to breast cancer diagnosis. Deep models for mammogram analysis and mass (or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Han Chen , Anne L. Martel

This paper presents the biomechanical finite element models that have been developed in the framework of the computer-assisted maxillofacial surgery. After a brief overview of the continuous elastic modelling method, two models are…

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death among women worldwide. We introduce Mammo-FM, the first foundation model specifically for mammography, pretrained on the largest and most diverse dataset to date - 140,677 patients…

We develop a mathematical and numerical framework to solve state estimation problems for applications that present variations in the shape of the spatial domain. This situation arises typically in a biomedical context where inverse problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Felipe Galarce , Damiano Lombardi , Olga Mula

We propose a new model-based computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system for tumor detection and classification (cancerous v.s. benign) in breast images. Specifically, we show that (x-ray, ultrasound and MRI) images can be accurately modeled by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-06-22 Nidhal Bouaynaya , Jerzy Zielinski , Dan Schonfeld

Computer aided diagnosis (CAD) of Breast Cancer (BRCA) images has been an active area of research in recent years. The main goals of this research is to develop reliable automatic methods for detecting and diagnosing different types of BRCA…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-20 Marco A. V. M. Grinet , Nuno M. Garcia , Ana I. R. Gouveia , Jose A. F. Moutinho , Abel J. P. Gomes