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Small object detection is challenging because small objects do not contain detailed information and may even disappear in the deep network. Usually, feeding high-resolution images into a network can alleviate this issue. However, simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Ziming Liu , Guangyu Gao , Lin Sun , Zhiyuan Fang

Radiologists interpret mammography exams by jointly analyzing all four views, as correlations among them are crucial for accurate diagnosis. Recent methods employ dedicated fusion blocks to capture such dependencies, but these are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Eleonora Lopez , Eleonora Grassucci , Danilo Comminiello

Early detection of lung cancer is crucial as it increases the chances of successful treatment. Automatic lung image segmentation assists doctors in identifying diseases such as lung cancer, COVID-19, and respiratory disorders. However, lung…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Sadjad Rezvani , Mansoor Fateh , Yeganeh Jalali , Amirreza Fateh

Lung cancer is the commonest cause of cancer deaths worldwide, and its mortality can be reduced significantly by performing early diagnosis and screening. Since the 1960s, driven by the pressing needs to accurately and effectively interpret…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Bo Liu , Wenhao Chi , Xinran Li , Peng Li , Wenhua Liang , Haiping Liu , Wei Wang , Jianxing He

Purpose: In recent years, Non-Local based methods have been successfully applied to lung nodule classification. However, these methods offer 2D attention or limited 3D attention to low-resolution feature maps. Moreover, they still depend on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Mundher Al-Shabi , Kelvin Shak , Maxine Tan

Accurate and reliable histopathological image classification is essential for breast cancer diagnosis. However, many deep learning models remain sensitive to magnification variability and lack interpretability. To address these challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Enam Ahmed Taufika , Md Ahasanul Arafatha , Abhijit Kumar Ghoshb , Md. Tanzim Rezab , Md Ashad Alamc

Breast cancer(BC) is a prevalent type of malignant tumor in women. Early diagnosis and treatment are vital for enhancing the patients' survival rate. Downsampling in deep networks may lead to loss of information, so for compensating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Bo Yang , Hong Peng , Xiaohui Luo , Jun Wang

Few-shot object detection (FSOD) aims to detect objects using only a few examples. How to adapt state-of-the-art object detectors to the few-shot domain remains challenging. Object proposal is a key ingredient in modern object detectors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Guangxing Han , Shiyuan Huang , Jiawei Ma , Yicheng He , Shih-Fu Chang

Accurate detection and classification of nuclei in histopathology images are critical for diagnostic and research applications. We present KongNet, a multi-headed deep learning architecture featuring a shared encoder and parallel,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Jiaqi Lv , Esha Sadia Nasir , Kesi Xu , Mostafa Jahanifar , Brinder Singh Chohan , Behnaz Elhaminia , Shan E Ahmed Raza

The integration of Internet of Things (IoT) technology in pulmonary nodule detection significantly enhances the intelligence and real-time capabilities of the detection system. Currently, lung nodule detection primarily focuses on the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Meng Wang , Zi Yang , Ruifeng Zhao , Yaoting Jiang

Early detection of cancer can help improve patient prognosis by early intervention. Head and neck cancer is diagnosed in specialist centres after a surgical biopsy, however, there is a potential for these to be missed leading to delayed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Abdullah Alsalemi , Anza Shakeel , Mollie Clark , Syed Ali Khurram , Shan E Ahmed Raza

Automatic lymph node (LN) segmentation and detection for cancer staging are critical. In clinical practice, computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) imaging detect abnormal LNs. Despite its low contrast and variety in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-23 Al-Akhir Nayan , Boonserm Kijsirikul , Yuji Iwahori

Early diagnosis of lung cancer via computed tomography can significantly reduce the morbidity and mortality rates associated with the pathology. However, search lung nodules is a high complexity task, which affects the success of screening…

Recently deep learning has been witnessing widespread adoption in various medical image applications. However, training complex deep neural nets requires large-scale datasets labeled with ground truth, which are often unavailable in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Wentao Zhu , Yeeleng S. Vang , Yufang Huang , Xiaohui Xie

Fire is one of the common disasters in daily life. To achieve fast and accurate detection of fires, this paper proposes a detection network called FSDNet (Fire Smoke Detection Network), which consists of a feature extraction module, a fire…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Li Zhu , Jiahui Xiong , Wenxian Wu , Hongyu Yu

The early detection of a pulmonary embolism (PE) is critical for enhancing patient survival rates. Both image-based and non-image-based features are of utmost importance in medical classification tasks. In a clinical setting, physicians…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-18 Zhaoxin Guo , Zhipeng Wang , Ruiquan Ge , Jianxun Yu , Feiwei Qin , Yuan Tian , Yuqing Peng , Yonghong Li , Changmiao Wang

Lung cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide and early screening is critical for improving survival outcomes. In clinical practice, the contextual structure of nodules and the accumulated experience of radiologists are the two core…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Jianpeng Zhang , Xianghua Ye , Jianfeng Zhang , Yuxing Tang , Minfeng Xu , Jianfei Guo , Xin Chen , Zaiyi Liu , Jingren Zhou , Le Lu , Ling Zhang

Deep-learning-based object detection methods show promise for improving screening mammography, but high rates of false positives can hinder their effectiveness in clinical practice. To reduce false positives, we identify three challenges:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yen Nhi Truong Vu , Dan Guo , Ahmed Taha , Jason Su , Thomas Paul Matthews

Lung cancer classification in screening computed tomography (CT) scans is one of the most crucial tasks for early detection of this disease. Many lives can be saved if we are able to accurately classify malignant/cancerous lung nodules.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-20 Mundher Al-Shabi , Kelvin Shak , Maxine Tan

We present crowdsourcing as an additional modality to aid radiologists in the diagnosis of lung cancer from clinical chest computed tomography (CT) scans. More specifically, a complete workflow is introduced which can help maximize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Saeed Boorboor , Saad Nadeem , Ji Hwan Park , Kevin Baker , Arie Kaufman