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Background: Cervical cancer seriously affects the health of the female reproductive system. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) emerged as a non-invasive, high-resolution imaging technology for cervical disease detection. However, OCT image…

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Intracoronary Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) enables high-resolution visualization of coronary vessel anatomy but presents challenges due to noise, imaging artifacts, and complex tissue structures. This paper proposes a fully automated…

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Oral cancer constitutes a significant global health concern, resulting in 277,484 fatalities in 2023, with the highest prevalence observed in low- and middle-income nations. Facilitating automation in the detection of possibly malignant and…

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Automatic lymph node (LN) segmentation and detection for cancer staging are critical. In clinical practice, computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) imaging detect abnormal LNs. Despite its low contrast and variety in…

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Diagnosis of pulmonary lesions from computed tomography (CT) is important but challenging for clinical decision making in lung cancer related diseases. Deep learning has achieved great success in computer aided diagnosis (CADx) area for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-09 Jiancheng Yang , Mingze Gao , Kaiming Kuang , Bingbing Ni , Yunlang She , Dong Xie , Chang Chen

Skin cancer, the most commonly found human malignancy, is primarily diagnosed visually via dermoscopic analysis, biopsy, and histopathological examination. However, unlike other types of cancer, automated image classification of skin…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 Yutong Li , Ruoqing Zhu , Annie Qu , Mike Yeh

Purpose. Localizing structures and estimating the motion of a specific target region are common problems for navigation during surgical interventions. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an imaging modality with a high spatial and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Marcel Bengs , Nils Gessert , Matthias Schlüter , Alexander Schlaefer

Lung cancer (LC) ranks among the most frequently diagnosed cancers and is one of the most common causes of death for men and women worldwide. Computed Tomography (CT) images are the most preferred diagnosis method because of their low cost…

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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) based measurements of retinal layer thickness, such as the retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) and the ganglion cell with inner plexiform layer (GCIPL) are commonly used for the diagnosis and monitoring of…

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Reliable classification of benign and malignant lesions in breast ultrasound images can provide an effective and relatively low cost method for early diagnosis of breast cancer. The accuracy of the diagnosis is however highly dependent on…

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Near infrared diffuse optical tomography (DOT) provides an imaging modality for the oxygenation of tissue. In this paper, we propose a novel machine learning algorithm based on time-domain radiative transfer equation. We use temporal…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Yu-ichi Takamizu , Masayuki Umemura , Hidenobu Yajima , Makito Abe , Yoko Hoshi

The ultra-wide optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) has become an important imaging modality in diabetic retinopathy (DR) diagnosis. However, there are few researches focusing on automatic DR analysis using ultra-wide OCTA. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Junlin Hou , Fan Xiao , Jilan Xu , Yuejie Zhang , Haidong Zou , Rui Feng

Histological evaluation of tissue samples is a typical approach to identify colorectal cancer metastases in the peritoneum. For immediate assessment, reliable and real-time in-vivo imaging would be required. For example, intraoperative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Nils Gessert , Lukas Wittig , Daniel Drömann , Tobias Keck , Alexander Schlaefer , David B. Ellebrecht

This study is to demonstrate deep learning for automated artery-vein (AV) classification in optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA). The AV-Net, a fully convolutional network (FCN) based on modified U-shaped CNN architecture,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Minhaj Alam , David Le , Taeyoon Son , Jennifer I. Lim , Xincheng Yao

Colorectal liver metastasis is one of most aggressive liver malignancies. While the definition of lesion type based on CT images determines the diagnosis and therapeutic strategy, the discrimination between cancerous and non-cancerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Francisco Perdigon Romero , Andre Diler , Gabriel Bisson-Gregoire , Simon Turcotte , Real Lapointe , Franck Vandenbroucke-Menu , An Tang , Samuel Kadoury

Lung cancer, a malignancy originating in lung tissues, is commonly diagnosed and classified using medical imaging techniques, particularly computed tomography (CT). Despite the integration of machine learning and deep learning methods, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Olajumoke O. Adekunle , Joseph D. Akinyemi , Khadijat T. Ladoja , Olufade F. W. Onifade

Colorectal cancer is a deadly disease that has become increasingly prevalent in recent years. Early detection is crucial for saving lives, but traditional diagnostic methods such as colonoscopy and biopsy have limitations. Colonoscopy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-18 Shangqing Tong , Peng Ge , Yanan Jiao , Zhaofu Ma , Ziye Li , Longhai Liu , Feng Gao , Xiaohui Du , Fei Gao

Gastrointestinal endoscopy is a medical procedure that utilizes a flexible tube equipped with a camera and other instruments to examine the digestive tract. This minimally invasive technique allows for diagnosing and managing various…

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Tracking the pose of instruments is a central problem in image-guided surgery. For microscopic scenarios, optical coherence tomography (OCT) is increasingly used as an imaging modality. OCT is suitable for accurate pose estimation due to…

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Cancerous skin lesions are one of the most common malignancies detected in humans, and if not detected at an early stage, they can lead to death. Therefore, it is crucial to have access to accurate results early on to optimize the chances…

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