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Computer aided diagnostic (CAD) system is crucial for modern med-ical imaging. But almost all CAD systems operate on reconstructed images, which were optimized for radiologists. Computer vision can capture features that is subtle to human…

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In present object detection systems, the deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are utilized to predict bounding boxes of object candidates, and have gained performance advantages over the traditional region proposal methods. However,…

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Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a medical imaging modality that allows us to probe deeper substructures of skin. The state-of-the-art wound care prediction and monitoring methods are based on visual evaluation and focus on surface…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Prashant Kumar , Swatantra Dhara , Ayan Gope , Jyotirmoy Chatterjee , Subhamoy Mandal

The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) for organ segmentation and tumor detection is propelled by the growing availability of computed tomography (CT) datasets with detailed, per-voxel annotations. However, these AI models often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-29 Jie Liu , Yixiao Zhang , Kang Wang , Mehmet Can Yavuz , Xiaoxi Chen , Yixuan Yuan , Haoliang Li , Yang Yang , Alan Yuille , Yucheng Tang , Zongwei Zhou

The rise of Transformer architectures has advanced medical image segmentation, leading to hybrid models that combine Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers. However, these models often suffer from excessive complexity and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Yousef Sadegheih , Afshin Bozorgpour , Pratibha Kumari , Reza Azad , Dorit Merhof

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

Most state-of-the-art instance-level human parsing models adopt two-stage anchor-based detectors and, therefore, cannot avoid the heuristic anchor box design and the lack of analysis on a pixel level. To address these two issues, we have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Sanyi Zhang , Xiaochun Cao , Guo-Jun Qi , Zhanjie Song , Jie Zhou

We present ObjectBox, a novel single-stage anchor-free and highly generalizable object detection approach. As opposed to both existing anchor-based and anchor-free detectors, which are more biased toward specific object scales in their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Mohsen Zand , Ali Etemad , Michael Greenspan

Diabetic retinopathy is one of the leading causes of preventable blindness in the world. Its earliest sign are red lesions, a general term that groups both microaneurysms and hemorrhages. In daily clinical practice, these lesions are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-16 José Ignacio Orlando , Elena Prokofyeva , Mariana del Fresno , Matthew B. Blaschko

Continuous monitoring of foot ulcer healing is needed to ensure the efficacy of a given treatment and to avoid any possibility of deterioration. Foot ulcer segmentation is an essential step in wound diagnosis. We developed a model that is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-07 Shahzad Ali , Arif Mahmood , Soon Ki Jung

The main objective of this project is to segment different breast ultrasound images to find out lesion area by discarding the low contrast regions as well as the inherent speckle noise. The proposed method consists of three stages (removing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Ibrahim Sadek , Mohamed Elawady , Viktor Stefanovski

In radiologists' routine work, one major task is to read a medical image, e.g., a CT scan, find significant lesions, and write sentences in the radiology report to describe them. In this paper, we study the lesion description or annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Ke Yan , Yifan Peng , Zhiyong Lu , Ronald M. Summers

The improved diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound breast examinations remains an important goal. In this study, we propose a biophysical feature based machine learning method for breast cancer detection to improve the performance beyond a…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely adopted in brain lesion detection and segmentation. However, locating small lesions in 2D MRI slices is challenging, and requires to balance between the granularity of 3D context aggregation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Haofeng Li , Junjia Huang , Guanbin Li , Zhou Liu , Yihong Zhong , Yingying Chen , Yunfei Wang , Xiang Wan

Lung cancer has been one of the major threats across the world with the highest mortalities. Computer-aided detection (CAD) can help in early detection and thus can help increase the survival rate. Accurate lung parenchyma segmentation (to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Muhammad Abdullah , Furqan Shaukat

The synergistic interpretation of anatomical information from computed tomography (CT) and metabolic information from positron emission tomography (PET) is important to oncologic imaging. However, existing deep learning methods for PET/CT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Xiaofeng Liu , Qianru Zhang , Thibault Marin , Menghua Xia , Chi Liu , Georges El Fakhri , Jinsong Ouyang

Background & Purpose: Chest X-Ray (CXR) use in pre-MRI safety screening for Lead-Less Implanted Electronic Devices (LLIEDs), easily overlooked or misidentified on a frontal view (often only acquired), is common. Although most LLIED types…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Mutlu Demirer , Richard D. White , Vikash Gupta , Ronnie A. Sebro , Barbaros S. Erdal

Objective: Computed Tomography (CT) has an important role to detect lung lesion related to Covide 19. The purpose of this work is to obtain diagnostic findings of Ultra-Low Dose (ULD) chest CT image and compare with routine dose chest CT.…

Lung cancer is highly lethal, emphasizing the critical need for early detection. However, identifying lung nodules poses significant challenges for radiologists, who rely heavily on their expertise for accurate diagnosis. To address this…

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Cancer is one of the leading causes of death globally, and early diagnosis is crucial for patient survival. Deep learning algorithms have great potential for automatic cancer analysis. Artificial intelligence has achieved high performance…

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