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Digital mammography is essential to breast cancer detection, and deep learning offers promising tools for faster and more accurate mammogram analysis. In radiology and other high-stakes environments, uninterpretable ("black box") deep…

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Correctly assessing the malignancy of breast lesions identified during ultrasound examinations is crucial for effective clinical decision-making. However, the current "golden standard" relies on manual BI-RADS scoring by clinicians, often…

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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…

We present a self-supervised algorithm for several classification tasks within hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained images of breast cancer. Our method is robust to stain variations inherent to the histology images acquisition process, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Alexandre Tiard , Alex Wong , David Joon Ho , Yangchao Wu , Eliram Nof , Alvin C. Goh , Stefano Soatto , Saad Nadeem

From the simple measurement of tissue attributes in pathology workflow to designing an explainable diagnostic/prognostic AI tool, access to accurate semantic segmentation of tissue regions in histology images is a prerequisite. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Mostafa Jahanifar , Neda Zamani Tajeddin , Navid Alemi Koohbanani , Nasir Rajpoot

Histopathological cancer diagnostics has become more complex, and the increasing number of biopsies is a challenge for most pathology laboratories. Thus, development of automatic methods for evaluation of histopathological cancer sections…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-08 André Pedersen , Erik Smistad , Tor V. Rise , Vibeke G. Dale , Henrik S. Pettersen , Tor-Arne S. Nordmo , David Bouget , Ingerid Reinertsen , Marit Valla

Diagnostic pathology, which is the basis and gold standard of cancer diagnosis, provides essential information on the prognosis of the disease and vital evidence for clinical treatment. Tumor region detection, subtype and grade…

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This work proposes a classification approach for breast cancer histopathologic images (HI) that uses transfer learning to extract features from HI using an Inception-v3 CNN pre-trained with ImageNet dataset. We also use transfer learning on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Jonathan de Matos , Alceu de S. Britto , Luiz E. S. Oliveira , Alessandro L. Koerich

Early diagnosis of breast cancer (BC) significantly contributes to reducing the mortality rate worldwide. The detection of different factors and biomarkers such as Estrogen receptor (ER), Progesterone receptor (PR), Human epidermal growth…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Abdul Rehman , Sarfaraz Hussein , Waqas Sultani

Deep learning models benefit from training with a large dataset (labeled or unlabeled). Following this motivation, we present an approach to learn a deep learning model for the automatic segmentation of Organs at Risk (OARs) in cervical…

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Early detection of breast cancer is a powerful tool towards decreasing its socioeconomic burden. Although, artificial intelligence (AI) methods have shown remarkable results towards this goal, their "black box" nature hinders their wide…

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Failures in Phase 3 clinical trials contribute to expensive cost of drug development in oncology. To drastically reduce such cost, responders to an oncology treatment need to be identified early on in the drug development process with…

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Deep Learning approaches in dermatological image classification have shown promising results, yet the field faces significant methodological challenges that impede proper evaluation. This paper presents a dual contribution: first, a…

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Breast cancer is a highly heterogeneous disease with diverse molecular profiles. The PAM50 gene signature is widely recognized as a standard for classifying breast cancer into intrinsic subtypes, enabling more personalized treatment…

While deep learning methods are increasingly being applied to tasks such as computer-aided diagnosis, these models are difficult to interpret, do not incorporate prior domain knowledge, and are often considered as a "black-box." The lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Shiwen Shen , Simon X. Han , Denise R. Aberle , Alex A. T. Bui , Willliam Hsu

Breast cancer is a highly fatal disease among cancers in women, and early detection is crucial for treatment. HER2 status, a valuable diagnostic marker based on Immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining, is instrumental in determining breast…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Linda Wei , Shengyi Hua , Shaoting Zhang , Xiaofan Zhang

This study introduces a federated learning-based approach to predict HER2 status from hematoxylin and eosin (HE)-stained whole slide images (WSIs), reducing costs and speeding up treatment decisions. To address label imbalance and feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Kamorudeen A. Amuda , Almustapha A. Wakili

Breast cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer-related death in women worldwide. Early and accurate diagnosis of breast cancer may significantly increase the survival rate of patients. In this study, we aim to develop a fully…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-27 Sara Hosseinzadeh Kassani , Peyman Hosseinzadeh Kassani , Michal J. Wesolowski , Kevin A. Schneider , Ralph Deters

Motivation: Tumor classification using Imaging Mass Spectrometry (IMS) data has a high potential for future applications in pathology. Due to the complexity and size of the data, automated feature extraction and classification steps are…

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Prediction of genetic biomarkers, e.g., microsatellite instability in colorectal cancer is crucial for clinical decision making. But, two primary challenges hamper accurate prediction: (1) It is difficult to construct a pathology-aware…

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