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Due to its predominantly asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic progression, lung cancer is often diagnosed in advanced stages, resulting in poorer survival rates for patients. As with other cancers, early detection significantly improves the…

Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) has been widely applied in pathology towards solving critical problems such as automating cancer diagnosis and grading, predicting patient prognosis, and therapy response. Deploying these models in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Syed Ashar Javed , Dinkar Juyal , Harshith Padigela , Amaro Taylor-Weiner , Limin Yu , Aaditya Prakash

Lung cancer is the leading cause of death among different types of cancers. Every year, the lives lost due to lung cancer exceed those lost to pancreatic, breast, and prostate cancer combined. The survival rate for lung cancer patients is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-17 Saleh Abunajm , Nelly Elsayed , Zag ElSayed , Murat Ozer

Since, cancer is curable when diagnosed at an early stage, lung cancer screening plays an important role in preventive care. Although both low dose computed tomography (LDCT) and computed tomography (CT) scans provide more medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Worawate Ausawalaithong , Sanparith Marukatat , Arjaree Thirach , Theerawit Wilaiprasitporn

Recent advances in attention-based multiple instance learning (MIL) have improved our insights into the tissue regions that models rely on to make predictions in digital pathology. However, the interpretability of these approaches is still…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-11 Willem Bonnaffé , CRUK ICGC Prostate Group , Freddie Hamdy , Yang Hu , Ian Mills , Jens Rittscher , Clare Verrill , Dan J. Woodcock

Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) grading depends on accurately identifying growth patterns, which are indicators of prognosis and can influence treatment decisions. Common deep learning approaches to determine the predominant pattern rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Laura Valeria Perez-Herrera , M. J. Garcia-Gonzalez , Karen Lopez-Linares

Early detection of lung nodules is of great importance in lung cancer screening. Existing research recognizes the critical role played by CAD systems in early detection and diagnosis of lung nodules. However, many CAD systems, which are…

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

The Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) paradigm is attracting plenty of attention in medical imaging classification, where labeled data is scarce. MIL methods cast medical images as bags of instances (e.g. patches in whole slide images, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Francisco M. Castro-Macías , Pablo Morales-Álvarez , Yunan Wu , Rafael Molina , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

Whole-slide image classification represents a key challenge in computational pathology and medicine. Attention-based multiple instance learning (MIL) has emerged as an effective approach for this problem. However, the effect of attention…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-14 Rajiv Krishnakumar , Julien Baglio , Frederik F. Flöther , Christian Ruiz , Stefan Habringer , Nicole H. Romano

Although multiple instance learning (MIL) methods are widely used for automatic tumor detection on whole slide images (WSI), they suffer from the extreme class imbalance within the small tumor WSIs. This occurs when the tumor comprises only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Ziyu Su , Mostafa Rezapour , Usama Sajjad , Shuo Niu , Metin Nafi Gurcan , Muhammad Khalid Khan Niazi

This paper explores machine learning (ML) models for classifying lung cancer levels to improve diagnostic accuracy and prognosis. Through parameter tuning and rigorous evaluation, we assess various ML algorithms. Techniques like minimum…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Mohsen Asghari Ilani , Saba Moftakhar Tehran , Ashkan Kavei , Hamed Alizadegan

Lung cancer is a major issue in worldwide public health, requiring early diagnosis using stable techniques. This work begins a thorough investigation of the use of machine learning (ML) methods for precise classification of lung cancer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Shayli Farshchiha , Salman Asoudeh , Maryam Shavali Kuhshuri , Mehrshad Eisaeid , Mohamadreza Azadie , Saba Hesaraki

Lung cancer ranks as one of the leading causes of cancer diagnosis and is the foremost cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. The early detection of lung nodules plays a pivotal role in improving outcomes for patients, as it enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiasen Zhang , Mingrui Yang , Weihong Guo , Brian A. Xavier , Michael Bolen , Xiaojuan Li

Lung cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Conventional computed tomography (CT) imaging, while essential for detection and staging, has limitations in distinguishing benign from malignant lesions…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Baramee Sukumal , Aueaphum Aueawatthanaphisut

Lung cancer is the leading cause for cancer related deaths. As such, there is an urgent need for a streamlined process that can allow radiologists to provide diagnosis with greater efficiency and accuracy. A powerful tool to do this is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Devinder Kumar , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Audrey G. Chung , Farzad Khalvati , Masoom A. Haider , Alexander Wong

Objective: Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, primarily due to delayed diagnosis and poor early detection. This study aims to develop a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system that leverages large…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Hafza Eman , Furqan Shaukat , Muhammad Hamza Zafar , Syed Muhammad Anwar

Computed tomography (CT) examinations are commonly used to predict lung nodule malignancy in patients, which are shown to improve noninvasive early diagnosis of lung cancer. It remains challenging for computational approaches to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Jason Causey , Junyu Zhang , Shiqian Ma , Bo Jiang , Jake Qualls , David G. Politte , Fred Prior , Shuzhong Zhang , Xiuzhen Huang

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. The critical reason for the deaths is delayed diagnosis and poor prognosis. With the accelerated development of deep learning techniques, it has been successfully applied…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Yujiao Wu , Jie Ma , Xiaoshui Huang , Sai Ho Ling , Steven Weidong Su

This paper proposes a novel and efficient method to build a Computer-Aided Diagnoses (CAD) system for lung nodule detection based on Computed Tomography (CT). This task was treated as an Object Detection on Video (VID) problem by imitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Ning Li , Haopeng Liu , Bin Qiu , Wei Guo , Shijun Zhao , Kungang Li , Jie He

Lung cancer (LC) remains the primary cause of cancer-related mortality, largely due to late-stage diagnoses. Effective strategies for early detection are therefore of paramount importance. In recent years, machine learning (ML) has…