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In the medical field, accurate diagnosis of lung cancer is crucial for treatment. Traditional manual analysis methods have significant limitations in terms of accuracy and efficiency. To address this issue, this paper proposes a deep…

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Lung cancer is a severe menace to human health, due to which millions of people die because of late diagnoses of cancer; thus, it is vital to detect the disease as early as possible. The Computerized chest analysis Tomography of scan is…

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The elective clinical target volume (CTV-N) in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) is currently based mostly on the prevalence of lymph node metastases in different lymph node levels (LNLs) for a given primary tumor location. We…

Machine learning models have utilized semantic features, deep features, or both to assess lung nodule malignancy. However, their reliance on manual annotation during inference, limited interpretability, and sensitivity to imaging variations…

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Risk stratification (characterization) of tumors from radiology images can be more accurate and faster with computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) tools. Tumor characterization through such tools can also enable non-invasive cancer staging,…

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Breast cancer is a relatively common cancer among gynecological cancers. Its diagnosis often relies on the pathology of cells in the lesion. The pathological diagnosis of breast cancer not only requires professionals and time, but also…

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The heterogeneity of breast cancer presents considerable challenges for its early detection, prognosis, and treatment selection. Convolutional neural networks often neglect the spatial relationships within histopathological images, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Akhila Krishna K , Ravi Kant Gupta , Nikhil Cherian Kurian , Pranav Jeevan , Amit Sethi

Gross tumor volume (GTV) delineation on tomography medical imaging is crucial for radiotherapy planning and cancer diagnosis. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has been predominated on automatic 3D medical segmentation tasks, including…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 Chun-Hung Chao , Hsien-Tzu Cheng , Tsung-Ying Ho , Le Lu , Min Sun

Quantitative assessment of Tumor-TIL spatial relationships is increasingly important in both basic science and clinical aspects of breast cancer research. We have developed and evaluated convolutional neural network (CNN) analysis pipelines…

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely used for various learning tasks, ranging from node classification to link prediction. They have demonstrated excellent performance in multiple domains involving graph-structured data. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Steven E. Wilson , Sina Khanmohammadi

Predicting TNM stage is the major determinant of breast cancer prognosis and treatment. The essential part of TNM stage classification is whether the cancer has metastasized to the regional lymph nodes (N-stage). Pathologic N-stage…

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Lung cancer classification in screening computed tomography (CT) scans is one of the most crucial tasks for early detection of this disease. Many lives can be saved if we are able to accurately classify malignant/cancerous lung nodules.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-20 Mundher Al-Shabi , Kelvin Shak , Maxine Tan

Objective: In clinical practice, small lung nodules can be easily overlooked by radiologists. The paper aims to provide an efficient and accurate detection system for small lung nodules while keeping good performance for large nodules.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Sunyi Zheng , Ludo J. Cornelissen , Xiaonan Cui , Xueping Jing , Raymond N. J. Veldhuis , Matthijs Oudkerk , Peter M. A. van Ooijen

With nearly one million new cases diagnosed worldwide in 2020, head \& neck cancer is a deadly and common malignity. There are challenges to decision making and treatment of such cancer, due to lesions in multiple locations and outcome…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Angel Victor Juanco Muller , Joao F. C. Mota , Keith A. Goatman , Corne Hoogendoorn

Scalable graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a promising technique, which exhibits superior predictive performance and high running efficiency across numerous large-scale graph-based web applications. However, (i) Most scalable…

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) plays a crucial role in MRI-guided adaptive radiotherapy for head and neck cancer (HNC) due to its superior soft-tissue contrast. However, accurately segmenting the gross tumor volume (GTV), which includes…

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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

Histology method is vital in the diagnosis and prognosis of cancers and many other diseases. For the analysis of histopathological images, we need to detect and segment all gland structures. These images are very challenging, and the task…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Safiye Rezaei , Ali Emami , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) characterizes the composition of cells to distinguish diseased from healthy tissue. QUS can reflect the complexity of the tumor and detect early lymph node (LN) metastasis ex vivo. The objective in this study…

The scarcity of labeled data is a major bottleneck for developing accurate and robust deep learning-based models for histopathology applications. The problem is notably prominent for the task of metastasis detection in lymph nodes, due to…

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