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Traditional breast cancer imaging methods using microwave Nearfield Radar Imaging (NRI) seek to recover the complex permittivity of the tissues at each voxel in the imaging region. This approach is suboptimal, in that it does not directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Richard Obermeier , Jose Angel Martinez-Lorenzo

In this work, we report a wavelet based multi-fractal study of images of dysplastic and neoplastic HE- stained human cervical tissues captured in the transmission mode when illuminated by a laser light (He-Ne 632.8nm laser). It is well…

Breast cancer is the most common cancer type in women worldwide. Early detection and appropriate treatment can significantly reduce its impact. While histopathology examinations play a vital role in rapid and accurate diagnosis, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Nematollah Saeidi , Hossein Karshenas , Bijan Shoushtarian , Sepideh Hatamikia , Ramona Woitek , Amirreza Mahbod

Breast cancer is becoming pervasive with each passing day. Hence, its early detection is a big step in saving the life of any patient. Mammography is a common tool in breast cancer diagnosis. The most important step here is classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Aditya A. Shastri , Deepti Tamrakar , Kapil Ahuja

The rapid development of deep learning, a family of machine learning techniques, has spurred much interest in its application to medical imaging problems. Here, we develop a deep learning algorithm that can accurately detect breast cancer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Li Shen , Laurie R. Margolies , Joseph H. Rothstein , Eugene Fluder , Russell B. McBride , Weiva Sieh

Mammographic breast density, a parameter used to describe the proportion of breast tissue fibrosis, is widely adopted as an evaluation characteristic of the likelihood of breast cancer incidence. In this study, we present a radiomics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Jingxu Xu , Cheng Li , Yongjin Zhou , Lisha Mou , Hairong Zheng , Shanshan Wang

Breast cancer research over the last decade has been tremendous. The ground breaking innovations and novel methods help in the early detection, in setting the stages of the therapy and in assessing the response of the patient to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-19 Mahjabeen Mirza Beg , Monika Jain

Mammography is currently the primary imaging modality for breast cancer screening and plays an important role in cancer diagnostics. A standard mammographic image acquisition always includes the compression of the breast prior x-ray…

Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality among women worldwide, with mammography as the primary screening tool. While deep learning models have shown strong performance in lesion segmentation, most rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Helder Oliveira

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in women globally. Mammography is essential for the early detection and diagnosis of breast lesions. Despite recent progress in foundation…

Medical images differ from natural images in significantly higher resolutions and smaller regions of interest. Because of these differences, neural network architectures that work well for natural images might not be applicable to medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yiqiu Shen , Nan Wu , Jason Phang , Jungkyu Park , Kangning Liu , Sudarshini Tyagi , Laura Heacock , S. Gene Kim , Linda Moy , Kyunghyun Cho , Krzysztof J. Geras

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths in women. As the primary output of breast screening, breast ultrasound (US) video contains exclusive dynamic information for cancer diagnosis. However, training models for video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Zehui Lin , Ruobing Huang , Dong Ni , Jiayi Wu , Baoming Luo

Locating region of interest for breast cancer masses in the mammographic image is a challenging problem in medical image processing. In this research work, the keen idea is to efficiently extract suspected mass region for further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 BV Divyashree , Amarnath R , Naveen M , G Hemantha Kumar

Cancer is a leading cause of death in many countries. An early diagnosis of cancer based on biomedical imaging ensures effective treatment and a better prognosis. However, biomedical imaging presents challenges to both clinical institutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Hosein Barzekar , Yash Patel , Ling Tong , Zeyun Yu

Precision medicine has become a central focus in breast cancer management, advancing beyond conventional methods to deliver more precise and individualized therapies. Traditionally, histopathology images have been used primarily for…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-17 Suchithra Kunhoth , Somaya Al- Maadeed , Younes Akbari , Rafif Al Saady

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death among women worldwide. We introduce Mammo-FM, the first foundation model specifically for mammography, pretrained on the largest and most diverse dataset to date - 140,677 patients…

Recent advances in cancer research largely rely on new developments in microscopic or molecular profiling techniques offering high level of detail with respect to either spatial or molecular features, but usually not both. Here, we present…

The appearance of microcalcifications in mammograms is one of the early signs of breast cancer. So, early detection of microcalcification clusters (MCCs) in mammograms can be helpful for cancer diagnosis and better treatment of breast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-01-31 Hajar Moradmand , Saeed Setayeshi , Hossein Khazaei Targhi

Breast cancer is a leading cause of death among women globally, and early detection is critical for improving survival rates. This paper introduces an innovative framework that integrates Vision Transformers (ViT) and Graph Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yeming Cai , Zhenglin Li , Yang Wang

In 2020, 685,000 deaths across the world were attributed to breast cancer, underscoring the critical need for innovative and effective breast cancer treatment. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy has recently gained popularity as a promising treatment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Chi-en Amy Tai , Alexander Wong