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Early and accurate interpretation of screening mammograms is essential for effective breast cancer detection, yet it remains a complex challenge due to subtle imaging findings and diagnostic ambiguity. Many existing AI approaches fall short…

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Breast cancer is one of the deadliest cancer worldwide. Timely detection could reduce mortality rates. In the clinical routine, classifying benign and malignant tumors from ultrasound (US) imaging is a crucial but challenging task. An…

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This paper proposes an efficient system for classifying cervical cancer cells using pre-trained convolutional neural networks (CNNs). We first fine-tune five pre-trained CNNs and minimize the overall cost of misclassification by…

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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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-24 Elham Yousef Kalaf , Ata Jodeiri , Seyed Kamaledin Setarehdan , Ng Wei Lin , Kartini Binti Rahman , Nur Aishah Taib , Sarinder Kaur Dhillon

We present a hybrid algorithm to estimate lung nodule malignancy that combines imaging biomarkers from Radiologist's annotation with image classification of CT scans. Our algorithm employs a 3D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) as well as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Kushal Mehta , Arshita Jain , Jayalakshmi Mangalagiri , Sumeet Menon , Phuong Nguyen , David R. Chapman

To date, several automated strategies for identification/segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) lesions with the use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) have been presented, but they are outperformed by human experts, from whom they act…

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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

Mammography, an X-ray-based imaging technique, remains central to the early detection of breast cancer. Recent advances in artificial intelligence have enabled increasingly sophisticated computer-aided diagnostic methods, evolving from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-09 Daniel G. P. Petrini , Hae Yong Kim

3D imaging enables accurate diagnosis by providing spatial information about organ anatomy. However, using 3D images to train AI models is computationally challenging because they consist of 10x or 100x more pixels than their 2D…

Breast cancer, the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths globally, accounts for a quarter of all cancer cases [1]. To lower this death rate, it is crucial to detect tumors early, as early-stage detection significantly improves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Samia Saeed , Khuram Naveed

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

The Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) is one of the most powerful and successful deep learning approaches. DCNNs have already provided superior performance in different modalities of medical imaging including breast cancer…

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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown remarkable progress in medical image segmentation. However, lesion segmentation remains a challenge to state-of-the-art CNN-based algorithms due to the variance in scales and shapes. On the…

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In digital pathology, both detection and classification of cells are important for automatic diagnostic and prognostic tasks. Classifying cells into subtypes, such as tumor cells, lymphocytes or stromal cells is particularly challenging.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Shahira Abousamra , David Belinsky , John Van Arnam , Felicia Allard , Eric Yee , Rajarsi Gupta , Tahsin Kurc , Dimitris Samaras , Joel Saltz , Chao Chen

Previous studies on computer aided detection/diagnosis (CAD) in 4D breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) regard lesion detection, segmentation and characterization as separate tasks, and typically require users to manually select 2D MRI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Hang Min , Darryl McClymont , Shekhar S. Chandra , Stuart Crozier , Andrew P. Bradley

Presenting whole slide images (WSIs) as graph will enable a more efficient and accurate learning framework for cancer diagnosis. Due to the fact that a single WSI consists of billions of pixels and there is a lack of vast annotated datasets…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-09 Milan Aryal , Nasim Yahyasoltani

Microscopic histology image analysis is a cornerstone in early detection of breast cancer. However these images are very large and manual analysis is error prone and very time consuming. Thus automating this process is in high demand. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Ismaël Koné , Lahsen Boulmane

Objective: This work addresses two key problems of skin lesion classification. The first problem is the effective use of high-resolution images with pretrained standard architectures for image classification. The second problem is the high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Nils Gessert , Thilo Sentker , Frederic Madesta , Rüdiger Schmitz , Helge Kniep , Ivo Baltruschat , René Werner , Alexander Schlaefer

Capturing global contextual information plays a critical role in breast ultrasound (BUS) image classification. Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated reliable performance in tumor classification, they have inherent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-07 Bryar Shareef , Min Xian , Aleksandar Vakanski , Haotian Wang

Cancer is a complex disease that provides various types of information depending on the scale of observation. While most tumor diagnostics are performed by observing histopathological slides, radiology images should yield additional…

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