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Lung nodule malignancy prediction is an essential step in the early diagnosis of lung cancer. Besides the difficulties commonly discussed, the challenges of this task also come from the ambiguous labels provided by annotators, since deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-26 Zehui Liao , Yutong Xie , Shishuai Hu , Yong Xia

Machine learning approaches hold great potential for the automated detection of lung nodules in chest radiographs, but training the algorithms requires vary large amounts of manually annotated images, which are difficult to obtain. Weak…

Early detection of malignant lung nodules remains constrained by size and growth based screening criteria, often delaying diagnosis. We present an integrated AI system that jointly performs nodule detection and malignancy assessment…

Risk stratification of lung nodules is a task of primary importance in lung cancer diagnosis. Any improvement in robust and accurate nodule characterization can assist in identifying cancer stage, prognosis, and improving treatment…

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Lung Cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Early and automatic diagnosis of Solitary Pulmonary Nodules (SPN) in Computer Tomography (CT) chest scans can provide early treatment as well as doctor liberation from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Ioannis D. Apostolopoulos

Computed tomography (CT) examinations are commonly used to predict lung nodule malignancy in patients, which are shown to improve noninvasive early diagnosis of lung cancer. It remains challenging for computational approaches to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Jason Causey , Junyu Zhang , Shiqian Ma , Bo Jiang , Jake Qualls , David G. Politte , Fred Prior , Shuzhong Zhang , Xiuzhen Huang

Image segmentation is a fundamental problem in biomedical image analysis. Recent advances in deep learning have achieved promising results on many biomedical image segmentation benchmarks. However, due to large variations in biomedical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Lin Yang , Yizhe Zhang , Jianxu Chen , Siyuan Zhang , Danny Z. Chen

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

Dense annotations, such as segmentation masks, are expensive and time-consuming to obtain, especially for 3D medical images where expert voxel-wise labeling is required. Weakly supervised approaches aim to address this limitation, but often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Richard Petersen , Fredrik Kahl , Jennifer Alvén

Accurate and fast extraction of lung volumes from computed tomography (CT) scans remains in a great demand in the clinical environment because the available methods fail to provide a generic solution due to wide anatomical variations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Awais Mansoor , Ulas Bagci , Brent Foster , Ziyue Xu , Deborah Douglas , Jeffrey M. Solomon , Jayaram K. Udupa , Daniel J. Mollura

Detecting malignant pulmonary nodules at an early stage can allow medical interventions which may increase the survival rate of lung cancer patients. Using computer vision techniques to detect nodules can improve the sensitivity and the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-30 Siqi Liu , Arnaud Arindra Adiyoso Setio , Florin C. Ghesu , Eli Gibson , Sasa Grbic , Bogdan Georgescu , Dorin Comaniciu

The widespread adoption of CT has notably increased the number of detected lung nodules. However, current deep learning methods for classifying benign and malignant nodules often fail to comprehensively integrate global and local features,…

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Clinical Text Notes (CTNs) contain physicians' reasoning process, written in an unstructured free text format, as they examine and interview patients. In recent years, several studies have been published that provide evidence for the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Hlynur D. Hlynsson , Steindór Ellertsson , Jón F. Daðason , Emil L. Sigurdsson , Hrafn Loftsson

Automatic medical image segmentation plays a critical role in scientific research and medical care. Existing high-performance deep learning methods typically rely on large training datasets with high-quality manual annotations, which are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Shanshan Wang , Cheng Li , Rongpin Wang , Zaiyi Liu , Meiyun Wang , Hongna Tan , Yaping Wu , Xinfeng Liu , Hui Sun , Rui Yang , Xin Liu , Jie Chen , Huihui Zhou , Ismail Ben Ayed , Hairong Zheng

We introduce a new computer aided detection and diagnosis system for lung cancer screening with low-dose CT scans that produces meaningful probability assessments. Our system is based entirely on 3D convolutional neural networks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Onur Ozdemir , Rebecca L. Russell , Andrew A. Berlin

Lung cancer ranks as one of the leading causes of cancer diagnosis and is the foremost cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. The early detection of lung nodules plays a pivotal role in improving outcomes for patients, as it enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiasen Zhang , Mingrui Yang , Weihong Guo , Brian A. Xavier , Michael Bolen , Xiaojuan Li

Characterization of lung nodules as benign or malignant is one of the most important tasks in lung cancer diagnosis, staging and treatment planning. While the variation in the appearance of the nodules remains large, there is a need for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Sarfaraz Hussein , Robert Gillies , Kunlin Cao , Qi Song , Ulas Bagci

Recently, Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems have emerged as indispensable tools in clinical diagnostic workflows, significantly alleviating the burden on radiologists. Nevertheless, despite their integration into clinical settings, CAD…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-27 Muwei Jian , Hongyu Chen , Zaiyong Zhang , Nan Yang , Haorang Zhang , Lifu Ma , Wenjing Xu , Huixiang Zhi

Cancer detection and classification from gigapixel whole slide images of stained tissue specimens has recently experienced enormous progress in computational histopathology. The limitation of available pixel-wise annotated scans shifted the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Mehdi Naouar , Gabriel Kalweit , Ignacio Mastroleo , Philipp Poxleitner , Marc Metzger , Joschka Boedecker , Maria Kalweit

Despite the recent advances in automatically describing image contents, their applications have been mostly limited to image caption datasets containing natural images (e.g., Flickr 30k, MSCOCO). In this paper, we present a deep learning…

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