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Robust and highly accurate lung segmentation in X-rays is crucial in medical imaging. This study evaluates deep learning solutions for this task, ranking existing methods and analyzing their performance under diverse image modifications.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-09 Weronika Hryniewska-Guzik , Jakub Bilski , Bartosz Chrostowski , Jakub Drak Sbahi , Przemysław Biecek

X-ray is one of the prevalent image modalities for the detection and diagnosis of the human body. X-ray provides an actual anatomical structure of an organ present with disease or absence of disease. Segmentation of disease in chest X-ray…

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Pneumonia has been one of the major causes of morbidities and mortality in the world and the prevalence of this disease is disproportionately high among the pediatric and elderly populations especially in resources trained areas Fast and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sathish Krishna Anumula , Vetrivelan Tamilmani , Aniruddha Arjun Singh , Dinesh Rajendran , Venkata Deepak Namburi

In medical practice, the contribution of information technology can be considerable. Most of these practices include the images that medical assistance uses to identify different pathologies of the human body. One of them is X-ray images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-09 Benbakreti Samir , Said Mwanahija , Benbakreti Soumia , Umut Özkaya

Medical imaging is an essential tool in many areas of medical applications, used for both diagnosis and treatment. However, reading medical images and making diagnosis or treatment recommendations require specially trained medical…

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Chest X-ray imaging remains the primary diagnostic tool for pulmonary and cardiac disorders worldwide, yet its accuracy is hampered by radiologist shortages and inter-observer variability. This study presents a systematic comparative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Ali M. Bahram , Saman Muhammad Omer , Hardi M. Mohammed

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has already taken millions of lives and damaged economies across the globe. Most COVID-19 deaths and economic losses are reported from densely crowded cities. It is comprehensible that the effective control and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Zeba Ghaffar , Pir Masoom Shah , Hikmat Khan , Syed Farhan Alam Zaidi , Abdullah Gani , Izaz Ahmad Khan , Munam Ali Shah , Saif ul Islam

Chest X-rays of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients are frequently obtained to determine the extent of lung disease and are a valuable source of data for creating artificial intelligence models. Most work to date assessing disease…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-21 Vignav Ramesh , Blaine Rister , Daniel L. Rubin

Lung segmentation in chest X-rays (CXRs) is an important prerequisite for improving the specificity of diagnoses of cardiopulmonary diseases in a clinical decision support system. Current deep learning models for lung segmentation are…

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This study investigates the effectiveness of U-Net architectures integrated with various convolutional neural network (CNN) backbones for automated lung cancer detection and segmentation in chest CT images, addressing the critical need for…

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We present a novel deep learning approach to categorical segmentation of lung CTs of COVID-19 patients. Specifically, we partition the scans into healthy lung tissues, non-lung regions, and two different, yet visually similar, pathological…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-07 Tal Ben-Haim , Ron Moshe Sofer , Gal Ben-Arie , Ilan Shelef , Tammy Riklin-Raviv

COVID-19 frequently provokes pneumonia, which can be diagnosed using imaging exams. Chest X-ray (CXR) is often useful because it is cheap, fast, widespread, and uses less radiation. Here, we demonstrate the impact of lung segmentation in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-29 Lucas O. Teixeira , Rodolfo M. Pereira , Diego Bertolini , Luiz S. Oliveira , Loris Nanni , George D. C. Cavalcanti , Yandre M. G. Costa

Deep learning (DL) has drawn tremendous attention in object localization and recognition for both natural and medical images. U-Net segmentation models have demonstrated superior performance compared to conventional handcrafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Sivaramakrishnan Rajaraman , Les Folio , Jane Dimperio , Philip Alderson , Sameer Antani

Automated segmentation of anatomical structures is a crucial step in image analysis. For lung segmentation in computed tomography, a variety of approaches exist, involving sophisticated pipelines trained and validated on different datasets.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-21 Johannes Hofmanninger , Florian Prayer , Jeanny Pan , Sebastian Rohrich , Helmut Prosch , Georg Langs

Lung cancer is an extremely lethal disease primarily due to its late-stage diagnosis and significant mortality rate, making it the major cause of cancer-related demises globally. Machine Learning (ML) and Convolution Neural network (CNN)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Asha V , Bhavanishankar K

Purpose. Imaging plays an important role in assessing severity of COVID 19 pneumonia. However, semantic interpretation of chest radiography (CXR) findings does not include quantitative description of radiographic opacities. Most current AI…

Pneumonia, a prevalent respiratory infection, remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, particularly among vulnerable populations. Chest X-rays serve as a primary tool for pneumonia detection; however, variations in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Alireza Saber , Amirreza Fateh , Pouria Parhami , Alimohammad Siahkarzadeh , Mansoor Fateh , Saideh Ferdowsi

Lung cancer ranks as one of the leading causes of cancer diagnosis and is the foremost cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. The early detection of lung nodules plays a pivotal role in improving outcomes for patients, as it enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiasen Zhang , Mingrui Yang , Weihong Guo , Brian A. Xavier , Michael Bolen , Xiaojuan Li

Chest X-rays (CXRs) are a widely used imaging modality for the diagnosis and prognosis of lung disease. The image analysis tasks vary. Examples include pathology detection and lung segmentation. There is a large body of work where machine…

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