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Medical image segmentation is a difficult but important task for many clinical operations such as cardiac bi-ventricular volume estimation. More recently, there has been a shift to utilizing deep learning and fully convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Jesse Sun , Fatemeh Darbehani , Mark Zaidi , Bo Wang

The escalating global cancer burden underscores the critical need for precise diagnostic tools in oncology. This research employs deep learning to enhance lesion segmentation in PET/CT imaging, utilizing a dataset of 900 whole-body…

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Automated breast cancer detection via computer vision techniques is challenging due to the complex nature of breast tissue, the subtle appearance of cancerous lesions, and variations in breast density. Mainstream techniques primarily focus…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-11 Noor Ul Huda Shah , Tanveer Hussain , Amr Ahmed , Yonghuai Liu , Usman Ali , Ardhendu Behera

We introduce a new computer aided detection and diagnosis system for lung cancer screening with low-dose CT scans that produces meaningful probability assessments. Our system is based entirely on 3D convolutional neural networks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Onur Ozdemir , Rebecca L. Russell , Andrew A. Berlin

Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease with different molecular subtypes, clinical behavior, treatment responses as well as survival outcomes. The development of a reliable, accurate, available and inexpensive method to predict the…

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Mammography images are widely used to detect non-palpable breast lesions or nodules, preventing cancer and providing the opportunity to plan interventions when necessary. The identification of some structures of interest is essential to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Cesar A. Sierra-Franco , Jan Hurtado , Victor de A. Thomaz , Leonardo C. da Cruz , Santiago V. Silva , Alberto B. Raposo

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths in women. As the primary output of breast screening, breast ultrasound (US) video contains exclusive dynamic information for cancer diagnosis. However, training models for video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Zehui Lin , Ruobing Huang , Dong Ni , Jiayi Wu , Baoming Luo

This paper explores the problem of breast tissue classification of microscopy images. Based on the predominant cancer type the goal is to classify images into four categories of normal, benign, in situ carcinoma, and invasive carcinoma.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Kamyar Nazeri , Azad Aminpour , Mehran Ebrahimi

Breast cancer is a leading cause of death among women worldwide, emphasizing the need for early detection and accurate diagnosis. As such Ultrasound Imaging, a reliable and cost-effective tool, is used for this purpose, however the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Eyad Gad , Mustafa Abou Khatwa , Mustafa A. Elattar , Sahar Selim

With the increasing number of CT scan examinations, there is a need for automated methods such as organ segmentation, anomaly detection and report generation to assist radiologists in managing their increasing workload. Multi-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Theo Di Piazza , Carole Lazarus , Olivier Nempont , Loic Boussel

Prostate cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer deaths in men. There is a growing demand for noninvasively and accurately diagnostic methods that facilitate the current standard prostate cancer risk assessment in clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-30 Ping-Chang Lin , Teodora Szasz , Hakizumwami B. Runesha

Ultrasound image segmentation faces unique challenges including speckle noise, low contrast, and ambiguous boundaries, while clinical deployment demands computationally efficient models. We propose USEANet, an ultrasound-specific edge-aware…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Jingyi Gao , Di Wu , Baha lhnaini

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

Automated segmentation of BUS images is important for precise lesion delineation and tumor characterization, but is challenged by inherent artifacts and dataset inconsistencies. In this work, we evaluate the use of a modified Residual…

B-mode ultrasound imaging is a popular medical imaging technique. Like other image processing tasks, deep learning has been used for analysis of B-mode ultrasound images in the last few years. However, training deep learning models requires…

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The Deep learning (DL) models for diagnosing breast cancer from mammographic images often operate as "black boxes", making it difficult for healthcare professionals to trust and understand their decision-making processes. The study presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Maryam Ahmed , Tooba Bibi , Rizwan Ahmed Khan , Sidra Nasir

Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer with a high mortality rate in women over the age of 40. Many studies have shown that the detection of cancer at earlier stages significantly reduces patients' mortality and morbidity rages.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 Takumi Noda , Yuu Jinnai , Naoki Tomii , Takashi Azuma

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the world and the most prevalent cause of death among women worldwide. Nevertheless, it is also one of the most treatable malignancies if detected early. In this paper, a deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Hussin Ragb , Redha Ali , Elforjani Jera , Nagi Buaossa

Automatic cell segmentation is an essential step in the pipeline of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD), such as the detection and grading of breast cancer. Accurate segmentation of cells can not only assist the pathologists to make a more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Muyi Sun , Zeyi Yao , Guanhong Zhang

We propose a dual pathway, 11-layers deep, three-dimensional Convolutional Neural Network for the challenging task of brain lesion segmentation. The devised architecture is the result of an in-depth analysis of the limitations of current…

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