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Breast cancer is one of the deadliest cancer worldwide. Timely detection could reduce mortality rates. In the clinical routine, classifying benign and malignant tumors from ultrasound (US) imaging is a crucial but challenging task. An…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Jorge F. Lazo , Sara Moccia , Emanuele Frontoni , Elena De Momi

Computer aided detection and diagnosis systems based on deep learning have shown promising performance in breast cancer detection. However, there are cases where the obtained results lack justification. In this study, our objective is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Imane Nedjar , Mohammed Brahimi , Said Mahmoudi , Khadidja Abi Ayad , Mohammed Amine Chikh

This paper presents U-net based breast cancer metastases detection and classification in lymph nodes, as well as patient-level classification based on metastases detection. The whole pipeline can be divided into five steps: preprocessing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-11 Lin Xu , Cheng Xu , Yi Tong , Yu Chun Su

Breast cancer (BC) remains a significant health threat, with no long-term cure currently available. Early detection is crucial, yet mammography interpretation is hindered by high false positives and negatives. With BC incidence projected to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jai Vardhan , Taraka Satya Krishna Teja Malisetti

Background and Aim: Recently, deep learning using convolutional neural network has been used successfully to classify the images of breast cells accurately. However, the accuracy of manual classification of those histopathological images is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-11 Ashu Thapa , Abeer Alsadoon , P. W. C. Prasad , Simi Bajaj , Omar Hisham Alsadoon , Tarik A. Rashid , Rasha S. Ali , Oday D. Jerew

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of machine learning tasks by leveraging hierarchical feature learning through deep architectures. However, the large number of layers and millions of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-18 Biyi Fang , Truong Vo , Jean Utke , Diego Klabjan

Lymph node (LN) metastasis status is one of the most critical prognostic and cancer staging factors for patients with resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), or in general, for any types of solid malignant tumors. Preoperative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-05 Zhilin Zheng , Xu Fang , Jiawen Yao , Mengmeng Zhu , Le Lu , Lingyun Huang , Jing Xiao , Yu Shi , Hong Lu , Jianping Lu , Ling Zhang , Chengwei Shao , Yun Bian

Automated classification of histopathological whole-slide images (WSI) of breast tissue requires analysis at very high resolutions with a large contextual area. In this paper, we present context-aware stacked convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi , Guido Zuidhof , Maschenka Balkenhol , Meyke Hermsen , Peter Bult , Bram van Ginneken , Nico Karssemeijer , Geert Litjens , Jeroen van der Laak

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer among women worldwide. Diagnosis of breast cancer by the pathologists is a time-consuming procedure and subjective. Computer aided diagnosis frameworks are utilized to relieve pathologist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Bahareh Morovati , Reza Lashgari , Mojtaba Hajihasani , Hasti Shabani

Breast cancer histopathology image classification is critical for early detection and improved patient outcomes. 1 This study introduces a novel approach leveraging EfficientNetV2 models, to improve feature extraction and focus on relevant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Naren Sengodan

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related mortality by a significant margin. While new technologies, such as image segmentation, have been paramount to improved detection and earlier diagnoses, there are still significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Marguerite B. Basta , Sarfaraz Hussein , Hsiang Hsu , Flavio P. Calmon

Objective: This paper proposes a deep learning model for breast cancer detection from reconstructed images of microwave imaging scan data and aims to improve the accuracy and efficiency of breast tumor detection, which could have a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Gayathri Girish , Ponnathota Spandana , Badrish Vasu

Biopsies are the gold standard for breast cancer diagnosis. This task can be improved by the use of Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems, reducing the time of diagnosis and reducing the inter and intra-observer variability. The advances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Jonathan de Matos , Alceu de S. Britto , Luiz E. S. de Oliveira , Alessandro L. Koerich

Computer Aided Diagnosis has emerged as an indispensible technique for validating the opinion of radiologists in CT interpretation. This paper presents a deep 3D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture for automated CT scan-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-05 Sumita Mishra , Naresh Kumar Chaudhary , Pallavi Asthana , Anil Kumar

Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely used in medical image analysis, but their performance degrade when the magnification of testing images differ from the training images. The inability of CNNs to generalize across magnification…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-23 Pranav Jeevan , Nikhil Cherian Kurian , Amit Sethi

In this paper, we present different architectures of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to analyze and classify the brain tumors into benign and malignant types using the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technique. Different CNN…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-17 Aupam Hamran , Marzieh Vaeztourshizi , Amirhossein Esmaili , Massoud Pedram

Studies estimate that there will be 266,120 new cases of invasive breast cancer and 40,920 breast cancer induced deaths in the year of 2018 alone. Despite the pervasiveness of this affliction, the current process to obtain an accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Siddhant Rao

Characterization of lung nodules as benign or malignant is one of the most important tasks in lung cancer diagnosis, staging and treatment planning. While the variation in the appearance of the nodules remains large, there is a need for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Sarfaraz Hussein , Robert Gillies , Kunlin Cao , Qi Song , Ulas Bagci

Metastasis on lymph nodes (LNs), the most common way of spread for primary tumor cells, is a sign of increased mortality. However, metastatic LNs are time-consuming and challenging to detect even for professional radiologists due to their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-10 Chaoyi Wu , Feng Chang , Xiao Su , Zhihan Wu , Yanfeng Wang , Ling Zhu , Ya Zhang

In this paper, we propose a Computer Assisted Diagnosis (CAD) system based on a deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model, to build an end-to-end learning process that classifies breast mass lesions. We investigate the impact that has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Hiba Chougrad , Hamid Zouaki , Omar Alheyane