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Recently, lung nodule detection methods based on deep learning have shown excellent performance in the medical image processing field. Considering that only a few public lung datasets are available and lung nodules are more difficult to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-08 Yujiang Chen , Mei Xie

Thyroid disease instances have been continuously increasing since the 1990s, and thyroid cancer has become the most rapidly rising disease among all the malignancies in recent years. Most existing studies focused on applying deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Xinyu Zhang , Vincent CS. Lee , Jia Rong , James C. Lee , Jiangning Song , Feng Liu

Ultrasound scanning is essential in several medical diagnostic and therapeutic applications. It is used to visualize and analyze anatomical features and structures that influence treatment plans. However, it is both labor intensive, and its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Abdullah F. Al-Battal , Yan Gong , Lu Xu , Timothy Morton , Chen Du , Yifeng Bu 1 , Imanuel R Lerman , Radhika Madhavan , Truong Q. Nguyen

In this paper, we propose a novel framework with 3D convolutional networks (ConvNets) for automated detection of pulmonary nodules from low-dose CT scans, which is a challenging yet crucial task for lung cancer early diagnosis and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Qi Dou , Hao Chen , Yueming Jin , Huangjing Lin , Jing Qin , Pheng-Ann Heng

Thyroid cancer is currently the fifth most common malignancy diagnosed in women. Since differentiation of cancer sub-types is important for treatment and current, manual methods are time consuming and subjective, automatic computer-aided…

Photoacoustic imaging has shown great potential for guiding minimally invasive procedures by accurate identification of critical tissue targets and invasive medical devices (such as metallic needles). The use of light emitting diodes (LEDs)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-22 Mengjie Shi , Tianrui Zhao , Simeon J. West , Adrien E. Desjardins , Tom Vercauteren , Wenfeng Xia

Clinical cystoscopy, the current standard for bladder cancer diagnosis, suffers from significant reliance on physician expertise, leading to variability and subjectivity in diagnostic outcomes. There is an urgent need for objective,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Jinliang Yu , Mingduo Xie , Yue Wang , Tianfan Fu , Xianglai Xu , Jiajun Wang

The intersection of medical imaging and artificial intelligence has become an important research direction in intelligent medical treatment, particularly in the analysis of medical images using deep learning for clinical diagnosis. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Xiangxiang Cui , Zhongyu Li , Xiayue Fan , Peng Huang , Ying Wang , Meng Yang , Shi Chang , Jihua Zhu

Identifying and interpreting fetal standard scan planes during 2D ultrasound mid-pregnancy examinations are highly complex tasks which require years of training. Apart from guiding the probe to the correct location, it can be equally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Christian F. Baumgartner , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Jacqueline Matthew , Tara P. Fletcher , Sandra Smith , Lisa M. Koch , Bernhard Kainz , Daniel Rueckert

Ultrasound imaging is generally employed for real-time investigation of internal anatomy of the human body for disease identification. Delineation of the anatomical boundary of organs and pathological lesions is quite challenging due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Sumanth Nandamuri , Debarghya China , Pabitra Mitra , Debdoot Sheet

Background: Automated classification of thyroid Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy (FNAB) images faces challenges in limited data, inter-observer variability, and computational cost. Efficient, interpretable models are crucial for clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Hai Pham-Ngoc , De Nguyen-Van , Dung Vu-Tien , Phuong Le-Hong

Deep neural networks exhibit limited generalizability across images with different entangled domain features and categorical features. Learning generalizable features that can form universal categorical decision boundaries across domains is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Qingjie Meng , Jacqueline Matthew , Veronika A. Zimmer , Alberto Gomez , David F. A. Lloyd , Daniel Rueckert , Bernhard Kainz

This paper proposes a method for improving the accuracy of mastitis risk assessment in cows using neural networks and video analysis. Mastitis, an infection of the udder tissue, is a critical health problem for cows and can be detected by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Minghao Wang , Pinxue Lin

Tight-frame, a generalization of orthogonal wavelets, has been used successfully in various problems in image processing, including inpainting, impulse noise removal, super-resolution image restoration, etc. Segmentation is the process of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Xiaohao Cai , Raymond Chan , Serena Morigi , Fiorella Sgallari

Purpose: Thyroid cancer has been a common cancer. Papillary thyroid cancer and follicular thyroid cancer are the two most common types of thyroid cancer. Follicular thyroid cancer lacks distinctive ultrasound signs and is more difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Songlin Zhou , Tao Zhou , Xin Li , Stephen Shing-Toung Yau

Image segmentation has been increasingly applied in medical settings as recent developments have skyrocketed the potential applications of deep learning. Urology, specifically, is one field of medicine that is primed for the adoption of a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-02 Zachary A Stoebner , Daiwei Lu , Seok Hee Hong , Nicholas L Kavoussi , Ipek Oguz

The growing interest in developing smart diagnostic systems to help medical experts process extensive data for treating incurable diseases has been notable. In particular, the challenge of identifying thyroid cancer (TC) has seen progress…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yassine Habchi , Hamza Kheddar , Yassine Himeur , Mohamed Chahine Ghanem

Recent advances in deep learning have greatly facilitated the automated segmentation of ultrasound images, which is essential for nodule morphological analysis. Nevertheless, most existing methods depend on extensive and precise annotations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Xingyue Zhao , Zhongyu Li , Xiangde Luo , Peiqi Li , Peng Huang , Jianwei Zhu , Yang Liu , Jihua Zhu , Meng Yang , Shi Chang , Jun Dong

We address the problem of supporting radiologists in the longitudinal management of lung cancer. Therefore, we proposed a deep learning pipeline, composed of four stages that completely automatized from the detection of nodules to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-29 Xavier Rafael-Palou , Anton Aubanell , Mario Ceresa , Vicent Ribas , Gemma Piella , Miguel A. González Ballester

It remains challenging to automatically segment kidneys in clinical ultrasound images due to the kidneys' varied shapes and image intensity distributions, although semi-automatic methods have achieved promising performance. In this study,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Shi Yin , Zhengqiang Zhang , Hongming Li , Qinmu Peng , Xinge You , Susan L. Furth , Gregory E. Tasian , Yong Fan