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The liver is one of the most critical metabolic organs in vertebrates due to its vital functions in the human body, such as detoxification of the blood from waste products and medications. Liver diseases due to liver tumors are one of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Khaled Humady , Yasmeen Al-Saeed , Nabila Eladawi , Ahmed Elgarayhi , Mohammed Elmogy , Mohammed Sallah

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide, and early diagnosis is critical to improving patient outcomes. To diagnose cancer, a highly trained pulmonologist must navigate a flexible bronchoscope deep into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Jake Sganga , David Eng , Chauncey Graetzel , David B. Camarillo

Purpose: Lung nodule segmentation, i.e., the algorithmic delineation of the lung nodule surface, is a fundamental component of computational nodule analysis pipelines. We propose a new method for segmentation that is a machine learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-20 Matthew C Hancock , Jerry F Magnan

Primary tumors have a high likelihood of developing metastases in the liver and early detection of these metastases is crucial for patient outcome. We propose a method based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) to detect liver metastases.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-16 Mariëlle J. A. Jansen , Hugo J. Kuijf , Maarten Niekel , Wouter B. Veldhuis , Frank J. Wessels , Max A. Viergever , Josien P. W. Pluim

Automatic segmentation of an organ and its cystic region is a prerequisite of computer-aided diagnosis. In this paper, we focus on pancreatic cyst segmentation in abdominal CT scan. This task is important and very useful in clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Yuyin Zhou , Lingxi Xie , Elliot K. Fishman , Alan L. Yuille

One of the most effective ways to treat liver cancer is to perform precise liver resection surgery, the key step of which includes precise digital image segmentation of the liver and its tumor. However, traditional liver parenchymal…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-11 Danyi Huang , Ziang Liu , Yizhou Li

Lung cancer is a very deadly disease worldwide, and its early diagnosis is crucial for increasing patient survival rates. Computed tomography (CT) scans are widely used for lung cancer diagnosis as they can give detailed lung structures.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Md Rashidul Islam , Bakary Gibba , Altagi Abdallah Bakheit Abdelgadir

Anatomical segmentation of organs in ultrasound images is essential to many clinical applications, particularly for diagnosis and monitoring. Existing deep neural networks require a large amount of labeled data for training in order to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Yordanka Velikova , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Walter Simson , Vanessa Gonzalez Duque , Nassir Navab

Transfer learning (TL) for medical image segmentation helps deep learning models achieve more accurate performances when there are scarce medical images. This study focuses on completing segmentation of the ribs from lung ultrasound images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-06 Dorothy Cheng , Edmund Y. Lam

A chest radiograph, commonly called chest x-ray (CxR), plays a vital role in the diagnosis of various lung diseases, such as lung cancer, tuberculosis, pneumonia, and many more. Automated segmentation of the lungs is an important step to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-20 Anushikha Singh , Brejesh Lall , B. K. Panigrahi , Anjali Agrawal , Anurag Agrawal , DJ Christopher , Balamugesh Thangakunam

Lung cancer remains one of the most common and deadliest forms of cancer worldwide. The likelihood of successful treatment depends strongly on the stage at which the disease is diagnosed. Therefore, early detection of lung cancer represents…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Volodymyr Sydorskyi

Lung cancer is one of the most deadly diseases in the world. Detecting such tumors at an early stage can be a tedious task. Existing deep learning architecture for lung nodule identification used complex architecture with large number of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 Shah B. Shrey , Lukman Hakim , Muthusubash Kavitha , Hae Won Kim , Takio Kurita

Lung cancer is a primary contributor to cancer-related mortality globally, highlighting the necessity for precise early detection of pulmonary nodules through low-dose CT (LDCT) imaging. Deep learning methods have improved nodule detection…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-10 Fateme Mobini , Mohammad Reza Hedyehzadeh , Mahdi Yousefi

Automated lobar segmentation allows regional evaluation of lung disease and is important for diagnosis and therapy planning. Advanced statistical workflows permitting such evaluation is a needed area within respiratory medicine; their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-12 Marc Boubnovski Martell , Mitchell Chen , Kristofer Linton-Reid , Joram M. Posma , Susan J Copley , Eric O. Aboagye

Automated brain tumour segmentation has the potential of making a massive improvement in disease diagnosis, surgery, monitoring and surveillance. However, this task is extremely challenging. Here, we describe our automated segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-13 Indrajit Mazumdar

The brain tumor segmentation task aims to classify tissue into the whole tumor (WT), tumor core (TC), and enhancing tumor (ET) classes using multimodel MRI images. Quantitative analysis of brain tumors is critical for clinical decision…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 Saqib Qamar , Parvez Ahmad , Linlin Shen

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest types of cancer, with 25% of the diagnosed patients surviving for only one year and 6% of them for five. Computed tomography (CT) screening trials have played a key role in improving early detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Agapi Davradou

In this study, we propose a robust methodology for automatic segmentation of infected lung regions in COVID-19 CT scans using convolutional neural networks. The approach is based on a modified U-Net architecture enhanced with attention…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-20 Amal Lahchim , Lazar Davic

In this proposed work, we identified the significant research issues on lung cancer risk factors. Capturing and defining symptoms at an early stage is one of the most difficult phases for patients. Based on the history of patients records,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-12 Muhammad Sohaib , Mary Adewunmi

Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) is the current standard for lung cancer screening, yet its adoption and accessibility remain limited. Many regions lack LDCT infrastructure, and even among those screened, early-stage cancer detection…

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