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Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, and hundreds of thousands of unnecessary biopsies are done around the world at a tremendous cost. It is crucial to reduce the rate of biopsies that turn out to be benign tissue. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Nan Wu , Zhe Huang , Yiqiu Shen , Jungkyu Park , Jason Phang , Taro Makino , S. Gene Kim , Kyunghyun Cho , Laura Heacock , Linda Moy , Krzysztof J. Geras

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

Breast cancer detection through mammography interpretation remains difficult because of the minimal nature of abnormalities that experts need to identify alongside the variable interpretations between readers. The potential of CNNs for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Ojonugwa Oluwafemi Ejiga Peter , Daniel Emakporuena , Bamidele Dayo Tunde , Maryam Abdulkarim , Abdullahi Bn Umar

Diagnosis of breast cancer malignancy at the early stages is a crucial step for controlling its side effects. Histopathological analysis provides a unique opportunity for malignant breast cancer detection. However, such a task would be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-17 Ardavan Modarres , Erfan Ebrahim Esfahani , Mahsa Bahrami

Breast Cancer is a major cause of death worldwide among women. Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) stained breast tissue samples from biopsies are observed under microscopes for the primary diagnosis of breast cancer. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Aditya Golatkar , Deepak Anand , Amit Sethi

Breast cancer is one of the most common causes of death among women worldwide. Early detection helps in reducing the number of deaths. Automated 3D Breast Ultrasound (ABUS) is a newer approach for breast screening, which has many advantages…

The pancreatic disease taxonomy includes ten types of masses (tumors or cysts)[20,8]. Previous work focuses on developing segmentation or classification methods only for certain mass types. Differential diagnosis of all mass types is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-10 Tianyi Zhao , Kai Cao , Jiawen Yao , Isabella Nogues , Le Lu , Lingyun Huang , Jing Xiao , Zhaozheng Yin , Ling Zhang

Deep learning models designed for visual classification tasks on natural images have become prevalent in medical image analysis. However, medical images differ from typical natural images in many ways, such as significantly higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Yiqiu Shen , Nan Wu , Jason Phang , Jungkyu Park , Gene Kim , Linda Moy , Kyunghyun Cho , Krzysztof J. Geras

In this study, we present an interpretable deep learning framework for the early detection of breast cancer using quantitative features extracted from digitized fine needle aspirate (FNA) images of breast masses. Our deep neural network,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Bishal Chhetri , B. V. Rathish Kumar

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) has become a standard clinical practice for tumor downsizing in breast cancer with 18F-FDG Positron Emission Tomography (PET). Our work aims to leverage PET imaging for the segmentation of breast lesions. The…

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Segmentation is one of the most significant steps in image processing. Segmenting an image is a technique that makes it possible to separate a digital image into various areas based on the different characteristics of pixels in the image.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Sina Derakhshandeh , Ali Mahloojifar

We develop an end-to-end training algorithm for whole-image breast cancer diagnosis based on mammograms. It requires lesion annotations only at the first stage of training. After that, a whole image classifier can be trained using only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Li Shen

Breast density is an important risk factor for breast cancer that also affects the specificity and sensitivity of screening mammography. Current federal legislation mandates reporting of breast density for all women undergoing breast…

Breast cancer is one of the most threatening diseases in women's life; thus, the early and accurate diagnosis plays a key role in reducing the risk of death in a patient's life. Mammography stands as the reference technique for breast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Juan Zuluaga-Gomez

Breast cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women worldwide, with mammography screening as the most effective method for the early detection. Ensuring proper positioning in mammography is critical, as poor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Toygar Tanyel , Nurper Denizoglu , Mustafa Ege Seker , Deniz Alis , Esma Cerekci , Ercan Karaarslan , Erkin Aribal , Ilkay Oksuz

Mammography is using low-energy X-rays to screen the human breast and is utilized by radiologists to detect breast cancer. Typically radiologists require a mammogram with impeccable image quality for an accurate diagnosis. In this study, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-12 Dominik Eckert , Sulaiman Vesal , Ludwig Ritschl , Steffen Kappler , Andreas Maier

Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality among women worldwide, with mammography as the primary screening tool. While deep learning models have shown strong performance in lesion segmentation, most rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Helder Oliveira

Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a common classifier used for efficient classification with high accuracy. SVM shows high accuracy for classifying melanoma (skin cancer) clinical images within computer-aided diagnosis systems used by skin…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-30 Shereen Afifi , Hamid GholamHosseini , Roopak Sinha

State-of-the-art deep learning methods for image processing are evolving into increasingly complex meta-architectures with a growing number of modules. Among them, region-based fully convolutional networks (R-FCN) and deformable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Stephen Morrell , Zbigniew Wojna , Can Son Khoo , Sebastien Ourselin , Juan Eugenio Iglesias

Breast cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed malignancy among women in the developed world. Early detection through mammography screening plays a pivotal role in reducing mortality rates. While computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Shunjie-Fabian Zheng , Hyeonjun Lee , Thijs Kooi , Ali Diba