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Pneumonia remains a leading cause of childhood mortality worldwide, with a heavy burden in low-resource settings such as Bangladesh where radiologist availability is limited. Most existing deep learning approaches treat pneumonia detection…

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Early detection of lung cancer is essential in reducing mortality. Recent studies have demonstrated the clinical utility of low-dose computed tomography (CT) to detect lung cancer among individuals selected based on very limited clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Jiachen Wang , Riqiang Gao , Yuankai Huo , Shunxing Bao , Yunxi Xiong , Sanja L. Antic , Travis J. Osterman , Pierre P. Massion , Bennett A. Landman

We propose a deep learning based method for classification of commonly occurring pathologies in chest X-ray images. The vast number of publicly available chest X-ray images provides the data necessary for successfully employing deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Mohammad S. Majdi , Khalil N. Salman , Michael F. Morris , Nirav C. Merchant , Jeffrey J. Rodriguez

PURPOSE: This study aimed to develop a deep learning-based tool to detect and localize lung nodules with chest radiographs(CXRs). We expected it to enhance the efficiency of interpreting CXRs and reduce the possibilities of delayed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Yang Tai , Yu-Wen Fang , Fang-Yi Su , Jung-Hsien Chiang

Primary tumors have a high likelihood of developing metastases in the liver and early detection of these metastases is crucial for patient outcome. We propose a method based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) to detect liver metastases.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-16 Mariëlle J. A. Jansen , Hugo J. Kuijf , Maarten Niekel , Wouter B. Veldhuis , Frank J. Wessels , Max A. Viergever , Josien P. W. Pluim

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of primary liver cancer in adults, and the most common cause of death of people suffering from cirrhosis. The segmentation of liver lesions in CT images allows assessment of tumor load,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Nadja Gruber , Stephan Antholzer , Werner Jaschke , Christian Kremser , Markus Haltmeier

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and early diagnosis is associated with a positive prognosis. Chest X-ray (CXR) provides an inexpensive imaging mode for lung cancer diagnosis. Suspicious nodules are difficult to distinguish…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-14 Michael James Horry , Subrata Chakraborty , Biswajeet Pradhan , Manoranjan Paul , Jing Zhu , Prabal Datta Barua , U. Rajendra Acharya , Fang Chen , Jianlong Zhou

The advancement of computer-aided detection systems had a significant impact on clinical analysis and decision-making on human disease. Lung cancer requires more attention among the numerous diseases being examined because it affects both…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Jafar Abdollahi

Objective: The automatic discrimination between the coughing sounds produced by patients with tuberculosis (TB) and those produced by patients with other lung ailments. Approach: We present experiments based on a dataset of 1358 forced…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Madhurananda Pahar , Marisa Klopper , Byron Reeve , Grant Theron , Rob Warren , Thomas Niesler

Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease which may appear in early life with structural abnormalities in lung tissues. We propose to detect these abnormalities using a texture classification approach. Our method is a cascade of two…

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In this study, a dataset of X-ray images from patients with common viral pneumonia, bacterial pneumonia, confirmed Covid-19 disease was utilized for the automatic detection of the Coronavirus disease. The point of the investigation is to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Sarath Pathari

Lung cancer has been one of the most prevalent disease in recent years. According to the research of this field, more than 200,000 cases are identified each year in the US. Uncontrolled multiplication and growth of the lung cells result in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Hesamoddin Hosseini , Reza Monsefi , Shabnam Shadroo

Tuberculosis (TB), caused by a germ called Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is one of the most serious public health problems in Peru and the world. The development of this project seeks to facilitate and automate the diagnosis of tuberculosis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Dennis Núñez-Fernández , Lamberto Ballan , Gabriel Jiménez-Avalos , Jorge Coronel , Mirko Zimic

Pneumonia has been one of the fatal diseases and has the potential to result in severe consequences within a short period of time, due to the flow of fluid in lungs, which leads to drowning. If not acted upon by drugs at the right time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Can Jozef Saul , Deniz Yagmur Urey , Can Doruk Taktakoglu

Artificial intelligence (AI) products can be trained to recognize tuberculosis (TB)-related abnormalities on chest radiographs. Various AI products are available commercially, yet there is lack of evidence on how their performance compared…

Recently, researchers, specialists, and companies around the world are rolling out deep learning and image processing-based systems that can fastly process hundreds of X-Ray and computed tomography (CT) images to accelerate the diagnosis of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-01 Khalid El Asnaoui , Youness Chawki , Ali Idri

Transfer learning (TL) for medical image segmentation helps deep learning models achieve more accurate performances when there are scarce medical images. This study focuses on completing segmentation of the ribs from lung ultrasound images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-06 Dorothy Cheng , Edmund Y. Lam

To reduce the amount of required labeled data for lung disease severity classification from chest X-rays (CXRs) under class imbalance, this study applied deep active learning with a Bayesian Neural Network (BNN) approximation and weighted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Roy M. Gabriel , Mohammadreza Zandehshahvar , Marly van Assen , Nattakorn Kittisut , Kyle Peters , Carlo N. De Cecco , Ali Adibi

The advent of deep learning has significantly propelled the capabilities of automated medical image diagnosis, providing valuable tools and resources in the realm of healthcare and medical diagnostics. This research delves into the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-20 Ryan Donghan Kwon , Dohyun Lim , Yoonha Lee , Seung Won Lee

Chest X-rays (CXRs) are among the most commonly used medical image modalities. They are mostly used for screening, and an indication of disease typically results in subsequent tests. As this is mostly a screening test used to rule out chest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Ken C. L. Wong , Mehdi Moradi , Joy Wu , Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood