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Reconstruction of digital breast tomosynthesis is a challenging problem due to the limited angle data available in such systems. Due to memory limitations, deep learning-based methods can help improve these reconstructions, but can not…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Koen Michielsen , Nikita Moriakov , Jonas Teuwen , Ioannis Sechopoulos

Background: Breast density, as derived from mammographic images and defined by the American College of Radiology's Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS), is one of the strongest risk factors for breast cancer. Breast ultrasound…

In recent years, advances in the development of whole-slide images have laid a foundation for the utilization of digital images in pathology. With the assistance of computer images analysis that automatically identifies tissue or cell…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Jun Wang , Qianying Liu , Haotian Xie , Zhaogang Yang , Hefeng Zhou

Breast cancer has the highest incidence and second highest mortality rate for women in the US. Our study aims to utilize deep learning for benign/malignant classification of mammogram tumors using a subset of cases from the Digital Database…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Darvin Yi , Rebecca Lynn Sawyer , David Cohn , Jared Dunnmon , Carson Lam , Xuerong Xiao , Daniel Rubin

The search for resonant mass bumps in invariant-mass distributions remains a cornerstone strategy for uncovering Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Traditional methods often rely on predefined…

The pancreatic disease taxonomy includes ten types of masses (tumors or cysts)[20,8]. Previous work focuses on developing segmentation or classification methods only for certain mass types. Differential diagnosis of all mass types is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-10 Tianyi Zhao , Kai Cao , Jiawen Yao , Isabella Nogues , Le Lu , Lingyun Huang , Jing Xiao , Zhaozheng Yin , Ling Zhang

Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) utilizes separate X-ray energy spectra to improve multi-material decomposition (MMD) for various diagnostic applications. However accurate decomposing more than two types of material remains…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-02 Di Xu , Qihui Lyu , Dan Ruan , Ke Sheng

We focus on the problem of Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (\uda) for breast cancer detection from mammograms (BCDM) problem. Recent advancements have shown that masked image modeling serves as a robust pretext task for UDA. However, when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Tajamul Ashraf , Krithika Rangarajan , Mohit Gambhir , Richa Gabha , Chetan Arora

Multispectral transmission imaging provides strong benefits for early breast cancer screening. The frame accumulation method addresses the challenge of low grayscale and signal-to-noise ratio resulting from the strong absorption and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-04 Jiatong Li , Gang Li , Nan Su Su Win , Ling Lin

Purpose: This work aims to develop an image reconstruction algorithm for wide-angle digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) that has improved depth resolution and in-plane contrast while reducing non-uniformity artifacts. Approach: The image…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Emil Y. Sidky , Adrian A. Sanchez , John Paul Phillips , Zheng Zhang , Dan Xia , Ingrid S. Reiser , Xiaochuan Pan

Background: Breast ultrasound is prominently used in diagnosing breast tumors. At present, many automatic systems based on deep learning have been developed to help radiologists in diagnosis. However, training such systems remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yunxin Tang , Siyuan Tang , Jian Zhang , Hao Chen

Accurate and automatic segmentation of fibroglandular tissue in breast MRI screening is essential for the quantification of breast density and background parenchymal enhancement. In this retrospective study, we developed and evaluated a…

The improved diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound breast examinations remains an important goal. In this study, we propose a biophysical feature based machine learning method for breast cancer detection to improve the performance beyond a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-15 Jihye Baek , Avice M. O'Connell , Kevin J. Parker

Automated methods for breast cancer detection have focused on 2D mammography and have largely ignored 3D digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), which is frequently used in clinical practice. The two key challenges in developing automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Yu Zhang , Xiaoqin Wang , Hunter Blanton , Gongbo Liang , Xin Xing , Nathan Jacobs

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, and hundreds of thousands of unnecessary biopsies are done around the world at a tremendous cost. It is crucial to reduce the rate of biopsies that turn out to be benign tissue. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Nan Wu , Zhe Huang , Yiqiu Shen , Jungkyu Park , Jason Phang , Taro Makino , S. Gene Kim , Kyunghyun Cho , Laura Heacock , Linda Moy , Krzysztof J. Geras

Description of purpose: Contrast-enhanced spectral mammography can be used to guide needle biopsies. However, in vertical approach the compressed breast is deformed generating a so-called bump in the paddle aperture, which may interfere…

Screening mammography improves breast cancer outcomes by enabling early detection and treatment. However, false positive callbacks for additional imaging from screening exams cause unnecessary procedures, patient anxiety, and financial…

Some recent studies have described deep convolutional neural networks to diagnose breast cancer in mammograms with similar or even superior performance to that of human experts. One of the best techniques does two transfer learnings: the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Daniel G. P. Petrini , Carlos Shimizu , Rosimeire A. Roela , Gabriel V. Valente , Maria A. A. K. Folgueira , Hae Yong Kim

Breast cancer is the most common cancer type in women worldwide. Early detection and appropriate treatment can significantly reduce its impact. While histopathology examinations play a vital role in rapid and accurate diagnosis, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Nematollah Saeidi , Hossein Karshenas , Bijan Shoushtarian , Sepideh Hatamikia , Ramona Woitek , Amirreza Mahbod

This study presents a deep learning system for breast cancer detection in mammography, developed using a modified EfficientNetV2 architecture with enhanced attention mechanisms. The model was trained on mammograms from a major Thai medical…