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Multi-omics data is increasingly being utilized to advance computational methods for cancer classification. However, multi-omics data integration poses significant challenges due to the high dimensionality, data complexity, and distinct…

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Metastatic presence in lymph nodes is one of the most important prognostic variables of breast cancer. The current diagnostic procedure for manually reviewing sentinel lymph nodes, however, is very time-consuming and subjective.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-05 Richard Chen , Yating Jing , Hunter Jackson

Cancer prognostication is a challenging task in computational pathology that requires context-aware representations of histology features to adequately infer patient survival. Despite the advancements made in weakly-supervised deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-29 Richard J. Chen , Ming Y. Lu , Muhammad Shaban , Chengkuan Chen , Tiffany Y. Chen , Drew F. K. Williamson , Faisal Mahmood

Deep learning has been shown to be useful to detect breast cancer metastases by analyzing whole slide images of sentinel lymph nodes. However, it requires extensive scanning and analysis of all the lymph nodes slides for each case. Our deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Kareem Allam , Xiaohong Iris Wang , Songlin Zhang , Jianmin Ding , Kevin Chiu , Karan Saluja , Amer Wahed , Hongxia Sun , Andy N. D. Nguyen

Machine learning (ML) has revolutionized medical prognostics by integrating advanced algorithms with clinical data to enhance disease prediction, risk assessment, and patient outcome forecasting. This comprehensive review critically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Michael Fascia

Graph-based neural network models are gaining traction in the field of representation learning due to their ability to uncover latent topological relationships between entities that are otherwise challenging to identify. These models have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Aryan Singh , Pepijn Van de Ven , Ciarán Eising , Patrick Denny

Lung cancer, a severe form of malignant tumor that originates in the tissues of the lungs, can be fatal if not detected in its early stages. It ranks among the top causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Detecting lung cancer manually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Santanu Roy , Shweta Singh , Palak Sahu , Ashvath Suresh , Debashish Das

The recent development of high-throughput sequencing creates a large collection of multi-omics data, which enables researchers to better investigate cancer molecular profiles and cancer taxonomy based on molecular subtypes. Integrating…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-25 Bingjun Li , Sheida Nabavi

Detecting and segmenting brain metastases is a tedious and time-consuming task for many radiologists, particularly with the growing use of multi-sequence 3D imaging. This study demonstrates automated detection and segmentation of brain…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Endre Grøvik , Darvin Yi , Michael Iv , Elisabeth Tong , Daniel L. Rubin , Greg Zaharchuk

We present a joint graph convolution-image convolution neural network as our submission to the Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) 2021 challenge. We model each brain as a graph composed of distinct image regions, which is initially segmented…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Camillo Saueressig , Adam Berkley , Reshma Munbodh , Ritambhara Singh

Recently, Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have proven to be a powerful machine learning tool for Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CADx) and disease prediction. A key component in these models is to build a population graph, where the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Luca Cosmo , Anees Kazi , Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi , Nassir Navab , Michael Bronstein

Early diagnosis of breast cancer is crucial, enabling the establishment of appropriate treatment plans and markedly enhancing patient prognosis. While direct magnetic resonance imaging-guided biopsy demonstrates promising performance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Kyunghyun Lee , Yong-Min Shin , Minwoo Shin , Jihun Kim , Sunghwan Lim , Won-Yong Shin , Kyungho Yoon

Northern Europe has the second highest mortality rate of melanoma globally. In 2020, the mortality rate of melanoma rose to 1.9 per 100 000 habitants. Melanoma prognosis is based on a pathologist's subjective visual analysis of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-13 Christopher Andreassen , Saul Fuster , Helga Hardardottir , Emiel A. M. Janssen , Kjersti Engan

Accurate lymph node metastasis (LNM) assessment in rectal cancer is essential for treatment planning, yet current MRI-based evaluation shows unsatisfactory accuracy, leading to suboptimal clinical decisions. Developing automated systems…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-19 Yifan Gao , Yaoxian Dong , Wenbin Wu , Chaoyang Ge , Feng Yuan , Jiaxi Sheng , Haoyue Li , Xin Gao

Automatic lymph node segmentation is the cornerstone for advances in computer vision tasks for early detection and staging of cancer. Traditional segmentation methods are constrained by manual delineation and variability in operator…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Jingguo Qu , Xinyang Han , Man-Lik Chui , Yao Pu , Simon Takadiyi Gunda , Ziman Chen , Jing Qin , Ann Dorothy King , Winnie Chiu-Wing Chu , Jing Cai , Michael Tin-Cheung Ying

In this paper, we present a fully automatic brain tumor segmentation method based on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). The proposed networks are tailored to glioblastomas (both low and high grade) pictured in MR images. By their very nature,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Mohammad Havaei , Axel Davy , David Warde-Farley , Antoine Biard , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio , Chris Pal , Pierre-Marc Jodoin , Hugo Larochelle

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown great promise in improving computer aided detection (CADe). From classifying tumors found via mammography as benign or malignant to automated detection of colorectal polyps in CT colonography,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Hunter Park , Connor Monahan

Deep learning assisted digital pathology has the potential to impact clinical practice in significant ways. In recent studies, deep neural network (DNN) enabled analysis outperforms human pathologists. Increasing sizes and complexity of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Haowen Zhou , Steven , Lin , Mark Watson , Cory T. Bernadt , Oumeng Zhang , Ramaswamy Govindan , Richard J. Cote , Changhuei Yang

We introduce a Unified Disentanglement Network (UFDN) trained on The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). We demonstrate that the UFDN learns a biologically relevant latent space of gene expression data by applying our network to two classification…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-21 Benjamin Kompa , Beau Coker

Can we predict if an early stage cancer patient is at high risk of developing distant metastasis and what clinicopathological factors are associated with such a risk? In this paper, we propose a ranking based censoring-aware machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Fayyaz Minhas , Michael S. Toss , Noor ul Wahab , Emad Rakha , Nasir M. Rajpoot