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Mammography is the most widely used gold standard for screening breast cancer, where, mass detection is considered as the prominent step. Detecting mass in the breast is, however, an arduous problem as they usually have large variations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Md. Kamrul Hasan , Tajwar Abrar Aleef

Traditional breast cancer image classification methods require manual extraction of features from medical images, which not only require professional medical knowledge, but also have problems such as time-consuming and labor-intensive and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-26 Mengfan Li

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the world and the most prevalent cause of death among women worldwide. Nevertheless, it is also one of the most treatable malignancies if detected early. In this paper, a deep convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Hussin Ragb , Redha Ali , Elforjani Jera , Nagi Buaossa

The focus of this paper is to review approaches for segmentation of breast regions in mammograms according to breast density. Studies based on density have been undertaken because of the relationship between breast cancer and density.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-09-26 Nafiza Saidin , Harsa Amylia Mat Sakim , Umi Kalthum Ngah , Ibrahim Lutfi Shuaib

Precise breast cancer classification on histopathological images has the potential to greatly improve the diagnosis and patient outcome in oncology. The data imbalance problem largely stems from the inherent imbalance within medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-28 Majid Behzadpour , Bengie L. Ortiz , Ebrahim Azizi , Kai Wu

This paper proposes a novel approach based on conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGAN) for breast mass segmentation in mammography. We hypothesized that the cGAN structure is well-suited to accurately outline the mass area,…

Purpose: To develop a Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) breast density deep learning (DL) model in a multi-site setting for synthetic two-dimensional mammography (SM) images derived from digital breast tomosynthesis exams…

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

Micro Abstract: A recent study from GLOBOCAN disclosed that during 2018 two million women worldwide had been diagnosed from breast cancer. This study presents a computer-aided diagnosis system based on convolutional neural networks as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Juan Zuluaga-Gomez , Zeina Al Masry , Khaled Benaggoune , Safa Meraghni , Noureddine Zerhouni

Early detection of lung cancer is crucial for effective treatment and relies on accurate volumetric assessment of pulmonary nodules in CT scans. Traditional methods, such as consolidation-to-tumor ratio (CTR) and spherical approximation,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Yihan Zhou , Haocheng Huang , Yue Yu , Jianhui Shang

Improving patient outcomes depends on the prompt and accurate diagnosis of brain tumors, but manual MRI scan analysis is still time-consuming and unreliable. Although deep learning has shown promise, many of the models that are now in use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Md Fahimul Kabir Chowdhury , Jannatul Ferdous

Breast cancer is one of the leading fatal disease worldwide with high risk control if early discovered. Conventional method for breast screening is x-ray mammography, which is known to be challenging for early detection of cancer lesions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Essam A. Rashed , M. Samir Abou El Seoud

Breast cancer is a common fatal disease for women. Early diagnosis and detection is necessary in order to improve the prognosis of breast cancer affected people. For predicting breast cancer, several automated systems are already developed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Subrato Bharati , Prajoy Podder , M. Rubaiyat Hossain Mondal

The distribution of absorbed dose in radionuclide therapy with Lu$^{177}$ can be approximated by convolving an image of the time-integrated activity distribution with a dose voxel kernel representing different tissue types. This fast but…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-25 Luciano Melodia

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…

Deep learning for regression tasks on medical imaging data has shown promising results. However, compared to other approaches, their power is strongly linked to the dataset size. In this study, we evaluate 3D-convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Yannick Suter , Alain Jungo , Michael Rebsamen , Urspeter Knecht , Evelyn Herrmann , Roland Wiest , Mauricio Reyes

Mammographic breast density classification is essential for cancer risk assessment but remains challenging due to subjective interpretation and inter-observer variability. This study compares multimodal and CNN-based methods for automated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-18 Yusdivia Molina-Román , David Gómez-Ortiz , Ernestina Menasalvas-Ruiz , José Gerardo Tamez-Peña , Alejandro Santos-Díaz

Breast cancer is one of the most major causes of death among women, after lung cancer. Breast cancer detection advancements can increase the survival rate of patients through earlier detection. Breast cancer that can be detected by using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Kashif Ishaq , Muhammad Mustagis

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) provides an "end-to-end" solution for image pattern recognition with impressive performance in many areas of application including medical imaging. Most CNN models of high performance use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-29 Mohammed Ahmed , Hongbo Du , Alaa AlZoubi

Breast cancer is the most common invasive cancer in women, and the second main cause of death. Breast cancer screening is an efficient method to detect indeterminate breast lesions early. The common approaches of screening for women are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Yuliana Jiménez Gaona , María José Rodriguez-Alvarez , Hector Espinó Morató , Darwin Castillo Malla , Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan