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Early detection of lung cancer is essential in reducing mortality. Recent studies have demonstrated the clinical utility of low-dose computed tomography (CT) to detect lung cancer among individuals selected based on very limited clinical…

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Lung cancer is deadly cancer that causes millions of deaths every year around the world. Accurate lung nodule detection and segmentation in computed tomography (CT) images is the most important part of diagnosing lung cancer in the early…

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The interpretation of Chest X-ray is an important diagnostic issue in clinical practice and especially in the resource-limited setting where the shortage of radiologists plays a role in delayed diagnosis and poor patient outcomes. Although…

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This study aimed to evaluate the performance of a novel unsupervised deep learning-based framework for automated infections lesion segmentation from CT images of Covid patients. In the first step, two residual networks were independently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-25 Faeze Gholamian Khah , Samaneh Mostafapour , Seyedjafar Shojaerazavi , Nouraddin Abdi-Goushbolagh , Hossein Arabi

Lung cancer is one of the death threatening diseases among human beings. Early and accurate detection of lung cancer can increase the survival rate from lung cancer. Computed Tomography (CT) images are commonly used for detecting the lung…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-26 Md Rashidul Hasan , Muntasir Al Kabir

Lung cancer begins in the lungs and leading to the reason of cancer demise amid population in the creation. According to the American Cancer Society, which estimates about 27% of the deaths because of cancer. In the early phase of its…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Abhir Bhandary , Ananth Prabhu G , Mustafa Basthikodi , Chaitra K M

The results of chest X-ray (CXR) analysis of 2D images to get the statistically reliable predictions (availability of tuberculosis) by computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) on the basis of deep learning are presented. They demonstrate the…

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Accurate classification of lung diseases from chest CT scans plays an important role in computer-aided diagnosis systems. However, medical imaging datasets often suffer from severe class imbalance, which may significantly degrade the…

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A major obstacle to the integration of deep learning models for chest x-ray interpretation into clinical settings is the lack of understanding of their failure modes. In this work, we first investigate whether there are patient subgroups…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Emma Chen , Andy Kim , Rayan Krishnan , Jin Long , Andrew Y. Ng , Pranav Rajpurkar

For compression fracture detection and evaluation, an automatic X-ray image segmentation technique that combines deep-learning and level-set methods is proposed. Automatic segmentation is much more difficult for X-ray images than for CT or…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Kang Cheol Kim , Hyun Cheol Cho , Tae Jun Jang , Jong Mun Choi , Jin Keun Seo

Accurate assessment of Lung nodules is a time consuming and error prone ingredient of the radiologist interpretation work. Automating 3D volume detection and segmentation can improve workflow as well as patient care. Previous works have…

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Image segmentation plays an essential role in medicine for both diagnostic and interventional tasks. Segmentation approaches are either manual, semi-automated or fully-automated. Manual segmentation offers full control over the quality of…

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Novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a highly contagious respiratory infection that has had devastating effects on the world. Recently, new COVID-19 variants are emerging making the situation more challenging and threatening. Evaluation…

Background and Objective: Artificial intelligence (AI) methods coupled with biomedical analysis has a critical role during pandemics as it helps to release the overwhelming pressure from healthcare systems and physicians. As the ongoing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Aman Swaraj , Karan Verma

The human lung is a complex respiratory organ, consisting of five distinct anatomic compartments called lobes. Accurate and automatic segmentation of these pulmonary lobes from computed tomography (CT) images is of clinical importance for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-18 Hoileong Lee , Tahreema Matin , Fergus Gleeson , Vicente Grau

Early and correct diagnosis is a very important aspect of cancer treatment. Detection of tumour in Computed Tomography scan is a tedious and tricky task which requires expert knowledge and a lot of human working hours. As small human error…

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Various approaches for liver segmentation in CT have been proposed: Besides statistical shape models, which played a major role in this research area, novel approaches on the basis of convolutional neural networks have been introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Hans Meine , Grzegorz Chlebus , Mohsen Ghafoorian , Itaru Endo , Andrea Schenk

Discontinuity in the delineation of peripheral bronchioles hinders the potential clinical application of automated airway segmentation models. Moreover, the deployment of such models is limited by the data heterogeneity across different…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-24 Zeyu Tang , Nan Yang , Simon Walsh , Guang Yang

The high cure rate of cancer is inextricably linked to physicians' accuracy in diagnosis and treatment, therefore a model that can accomplish high-precision tumor segmentation has become a necessity in many applications of the medical…

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Accurate segmentation of pulmonary vessels plays a very critical role in diagnosing and assessing various lung diseases. Currently, many automated algorithms are primarily targeted at CTPA (Computed Tomography Pulmonary Angiography) types…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Ying Ming , Shaoze Luo , Longfei Zhao , Ruijie Zhao , Bing Li , Qiqi Xu , Wei Song