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Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. The best solution for lung cancer is to diagnose the pulmonary nodules in the early stage, which is usually accomplished with the aid of thoracic computed tomography (CT). As deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Rui Xu , Zhi Liu , Yong Luo , Han Hu , Li Shen , Bo Du , Kaiming Kuang , Jiancheng Yang

Accurate assessment of Lung nodules is a time consuming and error prone ingredient of the radiologist interpretation work. Automating 3D volume detection and segmentation can improve workflow as well as patient care. Previous works have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-29 Evi Kopelowitz , Guy Engelhard

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

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

The 3D simulation model of the lung was established by using the reconstruction method. A computer aided pulmonary nodule detection model was constructed. The process iterates over the images to refine the lung nodule recognition model…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Yutian Yang , Hongjie Qiu , Yulu Gong , Xiaoyi Liu , Yang Lin , Muqing Li

Accurate quantification of pulmonary nodules can greatly assist the early diagnosis of lung cancer, which can enhance patient survival possibilities. A number of nodule segmentation techniques have been proposed, however, all of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-04 Muhammad Usman , Byoung-Dai Lee , Shi Sub Byon , Sung Hyun Kim , Byung-ilLee

Automatic diagnosing lung cancer from Computed Tomography (CT) scans involves two steps: detect all suspicious lesions (pulmonary nodules) and evaluate the whole-lung/pulmonary malignancy. Currently, there are many studies about the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Fangzhou Liao , Ming Liang , Zhe Li , Xiaolin Hu , Sen Song

Machine learning approaches hold great potential for the automated detection of lung nodules in chest radiographs, but training the algorithms requires vary large amounts of manually annotated images, which are difficult to obtain. Weak…

This study presents an innovative method for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis using 3D MRI designed to enhance the explainability of model decisions. Our approach adopts a soft attention mechanism, enabling 2D CNNs to extract volumetric…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Gabriele Lozupone , Alessandro Bria , Francesco Fontanella , Frederick J. A. Meijer , Claudio De Stefano

The introduction of lung cancer screening programs will produce an unprecedented amount of chest CT scans in the near future, which radiologists will have to read in order to decide on a patient follow-up strategy. According to the current…

Pulmonary pathologies are a significant global health concern, often leading to fatal outcomes if not diagnosed and treated promptly. Chest radiography serves as a primary diagnostic tool, but the availability of experienced radiologists…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Abdelbaki Souid , Mohamed Hamroun , Soufiene Ben Othman , Hedi Sakli , Naceur Abdelkarim

Accurate detection of pulmonary nodules with high sensitivity and specificity is essential for automatic lung cancer diagnosis from CT scans. Although many deep learning-based algorithms make great progress for improving the accuracy of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-12 Jingya Liu , Liangliang Cao , Oguz Akin , Yingli Tian

Automated detection and segmentation of pulmonary nodules on lung computed tomography (CT) scans can facilitate early lung cancer diagnosis. Existing supervised approaches for automated nodule segmentation on CT scans require voxel-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Xinyang Feng , Jie Yang , Andrew F. Laine , Elsa D. Angelini

In this work we present a method for lung nodules segmentation, their texture classification and subsequent follow-up recommendation from the CT image of lung. Our method consists of neural network model based on popular U-Net architecture…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-29 Alexandr G. Rassadin

Lung cancer is deadly cancer that causes millions of deaths every year around the world. Accurate lung nodule detection and segmentation in computed tomography (CT) images is the most important part of diagnosing lung cancer in the early…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Syeda Furruka Banu , Md. Mostafa Kamal Sarker , Mohamed Abdel-Nasser , Domenec Puig , Hatem A. Raswan

The state of the art lung nodule detection studies rely on computationally expensive multi-stage frameworks to detect nodules from CT scans. To address this computational challenge and provide better performance, in this paper we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Naji Khosravan , Ulas Bagci

Abridged: Clinicians commonly interpret 3D medical images by examining multiple anatomical planes rather than relying on volumetric views. In clinical CT workflows, the axial plane often serves as the primary diagnostic reference, while the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Doyoung Park , Jinsoo Kim , Lohendran Baskaran

This paper delves into the challenges and advancements in the field of medical image segmentation, particularly focusing on breast cancer diagnosis. The authors propose a novel Transformer-based segmentation model that addresses the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-20 Weijie He , Runyuan Bao , Yiru Cang , Jianjun Wei , Yang Zhang , Jiacheng Hu

Early detection of malignant lung nodules remains constrained by size and growth based screening criteria, often delaying diagnosis. We present an integrated AI system that jointly performs nodule detection and malignancy assessment…

Lung segmentation in chest X-ray images is a critical task in medical image analysis, enabling accurate diagnosis and treatment of various lung diseases. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for lung segmentation by integrating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Mohammad Ali Labbaf Khaniki , Nazanin Mahjourian , Mohammad Manthouri