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Background: Breast ultrasound is prominently used in diagnosing breast tumors. At present, many automatic systems based on deep learning have been developed to help radiologists in diagnosis. However, training such systems remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yunxin Tang , Siyuan Tang , Jian Zhang , Hao Chen

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of mortality among women worldwide. Early detection and risk assessment play a crucial role in improving survival rates. Therefore, annual or biennial mammograms are often recommended for screening…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-01 Batuhan K. Karaman , Katerina Dodelzon , Gozde B. Akar , Mert R. Sabuncu

Breast cancer is a disease that threatens many women's life, thus, early and accurate detection plays a key role in reducing the mortality rate. Mammography stands as the reference technique for breast cancer screening; nevertheless, many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Juan Zuluaga-Gomez , N. Zerhouni , Z. Al Masry , C. Devalland , C. Varnier

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…

Breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor among women and the second cause of cancer-related death. Early diagnosis in clinical practice is crucial for timely treatment and prognosis. Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-13 Zixian Li , Yuming Zhong , Yi Wang

Breast density, which is the ratio between fibroglandular tissue (FGT) and total breast volume, can be assessed qualitatively by radiologists and quantitatively by computer algorithms. These algorithms often rely on segmentation of breast…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-09 Bas H. M. van der Velden , Max A. A. Ragusi , Markus H. A. Janse , Claudette E. Loo , Kenneth G. A. Gilhuijs

Microwave-based breast cancer detection has been proposed as a complementary approach to compensate for some drawbacks of existing breast cancer detection techniques. Among the existing microwave breast cancer detection methods, machine…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-27 Hongchao Song , Yunpeng Li , Mark Coates , Aidong Men

The rapid development of deep learning, a family of machine learning techniques, has spurred much interest in its application to medical imaging problems. Here, we develop a deep learning algorithm that can accurately detect breast cancer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Li Shen , Laurie R. Margolies , Joseph H. Rothstein , Eugene Fluder , Russell B. McBride , Weiva Sieh

Mammographic breast density classification is essential for cancer risk assessment but remains challenging due to subjective interpretation and inter-observer variability. This study compares multimodal and CNN-based methods for automated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-18 Yusdivia Molina-Román , David Gómez-Ortiz , Ernestina Menasalvas-Ruiz , José Gerardo Tamez-Peña , Alejandro Santos-Díaz

Objective: To develop an automatic image normalization algorithm for intensity correction of images from breast dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) acquired by different MRI scanners with various imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Jun Zhang , Ashirbani Saha , Brian J. Soher , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Digital image plays a vital role in the early detection of cancers, such as prostate cancer, breast cancer, lungs cancer, cervical cancer. Ultrasound imaging method is also suitable for early detection of the abnormality of fetus. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Vidhi Rawat , Alok Jain , Vibhakar Shrimali

Resistive Pulse Sensing (RPS) is a key label-free technology to measure particles and single-cell size distribution. As a growing corpus of evidence supports that cancer cells exhibit distinct mechanical phenotypes from healthy cells,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Antoine Riaud , Anh L. P. Thai , Wei Wang , Valerie Taly

Inpainting has recently been proposed as a successful deep learning technique for unsupervised medical image model discovery. The masks used for inpainting are generally independent of the dataset and are not tailored to perform on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Yousef Yeganeh , Azade Farshad , Nassir Navab

We prove a simple, explicit formula for the mass of any asymptotically locally Euclidean (ALE) K\"ahler manifold, assuming only the sort of weak fall-off conditions required for the mass to actually be well-defined. For ALE scalar-flat…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-18 Hans-Joachim Hein , Claude LeBrun

Mammography is the gold standard for the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer. This procedure can be significantly enhanced with Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based software, which assists radiologists in identifying abnormalities.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Milica Škipina , Nikola Jovišić , Nicola Dall'Asen , Vanja Švenda , Anil Osman Tur , Slobodan Ilić , Elisa Ricci , Dubravko Ćulibrk

Breast cancer is a prominent health concern worldwide, currently being the secondmost common and second-deadliest type of cancer in women. While current breast cancer diagnosis mainly relies on mammography imaging, in recent years the use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Tamir Shor , Chaim Baskin , Alex Bronstein

Ultrasound is a vital diagnostic technique in health screening, with the advantages of non-invasive, cost-effective, and radiation free, and therefore is widely applied in the diagnosis of nodules. However, it relies heavily on the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Siyuan Jiang , Yan Ding , Yuling Wang , Lei Xu , Wenli Dai , Wanru Chang , Jianfeng Zhang , Jie Yu , Jianqiao Zhou , Chunquan Zhang , Ping Liang , Dexing Kong

A new method is introduced for making X-ray mass determinations of spherical clusters of galaxies. Treating the distribution of gravitating matter as piecewise constant and the cluster atmosphere as piecewise isothermal, X-ray spectra of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 P. E. J. Nulsen , S. L. Powell , A. Vikhlinin

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

Wavelet transform of polarized fluorescence spectroscopic data of human breast tissues is found to reliably differentiate normal and malignant tissue types and isolate characteristic biochemical signatures of cancerous tissues, which can…

Medical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nrusingh C. Biswal , Sharad Gupta , Asima Pradhan , Prasanta K. Panigrahi