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Purpose: To develop a fast and precise method for searching rectangular regions in brain tumor images. Methods: The authors propose a new method for searching rectangular tumor regions in brain MR images. The proposed method consisted of a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Hidenori Takeshima , Shuki Maruyama

Breast MRI provides high-resolution volumetric imaging critical for tumor assessment and treatment planning, yet manual interpretation of 3D scans remains labor-intensive and subjective. While AI-powered tools hold promise for accelerating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Solha Kang , Eugene Kim , Joris Vankerschaver , Utku Ozbulak

In medical imaging, segmentation and localization of spinal tumors in three-dimensional (3D) space pose significant computational challenges, primarily stemming from limited data availability. In response, this study introduces a novel data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Rikathi Pal , Sudeshna Mondal , Aditi Gupta , Priya Saha , Somoballi Ghoshal , Amlan Chakrabarti , Susmita Sur-Kolay

A major challenge in brain tumor treatment planning and quantitative evaluation is determination of the tumor extent. The noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique has emerged as a front-line diagnostic tool for brain tumors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Hao Dong , Guang Yang , Fangde Liu , Yuanhan Mo , Yike Guo

This paper presents a tumor detection algorithm from mammogram. The proposed system focuses on the solution of two problems. One is how to detect tumors as suspicious regions with a very weak contrast to their background and another is how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-12-14 Y. Ireaneus Anna Rejani , S. Thamarai Selvi

Automated segmentation of brain tumors from 3D magnetic resonance images (MRIs) is necessary for the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment planning of the disease. Manual delineation practices require anatomical knowledge, are expensive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Andriy Myronenko

This paper provides a critical review of the literature on deep learning applications in breast tumor diagnosis using ultrasound and mammography images. It also summarizes recent advances in computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-05 Yuliana Jiménez-Gaona , María José Rodríguez-Álvarez , Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

This paper presents an algorithm which aims to assist the radiologist in identifying breast cancer at its earlier stages. It combines several image processing techniques like image negative, thresholding and segmentation techniques for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-11-04 Y. Ireaneus Anna Rejani , S. Thamarai Selvi

Deep learning has introduced several learning-based methods to recognize breast tumours and presents high applicability in breast cancer diagnostics. It has presented itself as a practical installment in Computer-Aided Diagnostic (CAD)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-15 Timothy Kwong , Samaneh Mazaheri

Digital Breast Tomosynthesis is an X-ray imaging technique that allows a volumetric reconstruction of the breast, from a small number of low-dose two-dimensional projections. Although it is already used in clinical setting, enhancing the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Elena Morotti , Elena Loli Piccolomini

Mammography is currently the primary imaging modality for breast cancer screening and plays an important role in cancer diagnostics. A standard mammographic image acquisition always includes the compression of the breast prior x-ray…

About 20 percent of patients undergoing breast-conserving surgery require reoperation due to cancerous tissue remaining inside the breast. Breast cancer localization systems utilize auditory feedback to convey the distance between a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Laura Schütz , Trishia El Chemaly , Emmanuelle Weber , Anh Thien Doan , Jacqueline Tsai , Christoph Leuze , Bruce Daniel , Nassir Navab

Breast cancer is the malignant tumor that causes the highest number of cancer deaths in females. Digital mammograms (DM or 2D mammogram) and digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT or 3D mammogram) are the two types of mammography imagery that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Gongbo Liang , Xiaoqin Wang , Yu Zhang , Xin Xing , Hunter Blanton , Tawfiq Salem , Nathan Jacobs

Tumor detection in biomedical imaging is a time-consuming process for medical professionals and is not without errors. Thus in recent decades, researchers have developed algorithmic techniques for image processing using a wide variety of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Laramie Paxton , Yufeng Cao , Kevin R. Vixie , Yuan Wang , Brian Hobbs , Chaan Ng

Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer type in women, and while its survival rate is generally high the aesthetic outcome is an increasingly important factor when evaluating different treatment alternatives. 3D scanning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Rene Lacher , Francisco Vasconcelos , David Bishop , Norman Williams , Mohammed Keshtgar , David Hawkes , John Hipwell , Danail Stoyanov

Breast cancer has the highest incidence and second highest mortality rate for women in the US. Our study aims to utilize deep learning for benign/malignant classification of mammogram tumors using a subset of cases from the Digital Database…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Darvin Yi , Rebecca Lynn Sawyer , David Cohn , Jared Dunnmon , Carson Lam , Xuerong Xiao , Daniel Rubin

Quantitative cancer image analysis relies on the accurate delineation of tumours, a very specialised and time-consuming task. For this reason, methods for automated segmentation of tumours in medical imaging have been extensively developed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-07 Saúl Alonso-Monsalve , Leigh H. Whitehead , Adam Aurisano , Lorena Escudero Sanchez

The main objective of this project is to segment different breast ultrasound images to find out lesion area by discarding the low contrast regions as well as the inherent speckle noise. The proposed method consists of three stages (removing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Ibrahim Sadek , Mohamed Elawady , Viktor Stefanovski

Brain tumor segmentation is a fundamental step in assessing a patient's cancer progression. However, manual segmentation demands significant expert time to identify tumors in 3D multimodal brain MRI scans accurately. This reliance on manual…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Fadillah Maani , Anees Ur Rehman Hashmi , Numan Saeed , Mohammad Yaqub