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Lung nodule detection from 3D Computed Tomography scans plays a vital role in efficient lung cancer screening. Despite the SOTA performance obtained by recent anchor-based detectors using CNNs for this task, they require predetermined…

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The skeletal region is one of the common sites of metastatic spread of cancer in the breast and prostate. CT is routinely used to measure the size of lesions in the bones. However, they can be difficult to spot due to the wide variations in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Tao Sheng , Tejas Sudharshan Mathai , Alexander Shieh , Ronald M. Summers

Universal lesion detection in computed tomography (CT) images is an important yet challenging task due to the large variations in lesion type, size, shape, and appearance. Considering that data in clinical routine (such as the DeepLesion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Cong Xie , Shilei Cao , Dong Wei , Hongyu Zhou , Kai Ma , Xianli Zhang , Buyue Qian , Liansheng Wang , Yefeng Zheng

In the U.S., lung cancer is the second major cause of death. Early detection of suspicious lung nodules is crucial for patient treatment planning, management, and improving outcomes. Many approaches for lung nodule segmentation and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-10 Tejas Sudharshan Mathai , Benjamin Hou , Ronald M. Summers

Oral lesions are important findings on computed tomography (CT) images. In this study, a fully automatic method to detect oral lesions in mandibular region from dental CT images is proposed. Two methods were developed to recognize two types…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Shaikat Galib , Fahima Islam , Muhammad Abir , Hyoung-Koo Lee

Fully-supervised lesion recognition methods in medical imaging face challenges due to the reliance on large annotated datasets, which are expensive and difficult to collect. To address this, synthetic lesion generation has become a…

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We present an automated approach to detect and longitudinally track skin lesions on 3D total-body skin surface scans. The acquired 3D mesh of the subject is unwrapped to a 2D texture image, where a trained objected detection model, Faster…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Mengliu Zhao , Jeremy Kawahara , Kumar Abhishek , Sajjad Shamanian , Ghassan Hamarneh

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

Localization of focal vascular lesions on brain MRI is an important component of research on the etiology of neurological disorders. However, manual annotation of lesions can be challenging, time-consuming and subject to observer bias.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Kimberlin M. H. van Wijnen , Florian Dubost , Pinar Yilmaz , M. Arfan Ikram , Wiro J. Niessen , Hieab Adams , Meike W. Vernooij , Marleen de Bruijne

Scarcity of annotated images hampers the building of automated solution for reliable COVID-19 diagnosis and evaluation from CT. To alleviate the burden of data annotation, we herein present a label-free approach for segmenting COVID-19…

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Lesion detection in brain Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) remains a challenging task. State-of-the-art approaches are mostly based on supervised learning making use of large annotated datasets. Human beings, on the other hand, even…

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The automated detection of cortical lesions (CLs) in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) is a challenging task that, despite its clinical relevance, has received very little attention. Accurate detection of the small and scarce lesions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Francesco La Rosa , Erin S Beck , Ahmed Abdulkadir , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Daniel S Reich , Pascal Sati , Meritxell Bach Cuadra

The detection of new or enlarged white-matter lesions in multiple sclerosis is a vital task in the monitoring of patients undergoing disease-modifying treatment for multiple sclerosis. However, the definition of 'new or enlarged' is not…

Accurate, automated lesion detection in Computed Tomography (CT) is an important yet challenging task due to the large variation of lesion types, sizes, locations and appearances. Recent work on CT lesion detection employs two-stage region…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-07 Martin Zlocha , Qi Dou , Ben Glocker

Lesion detection is an important problem within medical imaging analysis. Most previous work focuses on detecting and segmenting a specialized category of lesions (e.g., lung nodules). However, in clinical practice, radiologists are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Ke Yan , Jinzheng Cai , Adam P. Harrison , Dakai Jin , Jing Xiao , Le Lu

In recent years, coronary artery disease is escalating and is likely to assume an epidemic proportion by 2030. Currently the reliable methods for detection of coronary arterial lesions are either conventional coronary angiogram (CAG) or…

Background \& purpose: The recent emergence of neural networks models for the analysis of breast images has been a breakthrough in computer aided diagnostic. This approach was not yet developed in Contrast Enhanced Spectral Mammography…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-01 Clément Jailin , Pablo Milioni , Zhijin Li , Răzvan Iordache , Serge Muller

Like other applications in computer vision, medical image segmentation has been most successfully addressed using deep learning models that rely on the convolution operation as their main building block. Convolutions enjoy important…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Davood Karimi , Serge Vasylechko , Ali Gholipour

Purpose: We propose a deep learning-based computer-aided detection (CADe) method to detect breast lesions in ultrafast DCE-MRI sequences. This method uses both the three-dimensional spatial information and temporal information obtained from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-12 Fazael Ayatollahi , Shahriar B. Shokouhi , Ritse M. Mann , Jonas Teuwen