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In this work, we investigate the performance across multiple classification models to classify chest X-ray images into four categories of COVID-19, pneumonia, tuberculosis (TB), and normal cases. We leveraged transfer learning techniques…

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Automated lobar segmentation allows regional evaluation of lung disease and is important for diagnosis and therapy planning. Advanced statistical workflows permitting such evaluation is a needed area within respiratory medicine; their…

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Lung segmentation in chest X-rays (CXRs) is an important prerequisite for improving the specificity of diagnoses of cardiopulmonary diseases in a clinical decision support system. Current deep learning models for lung segmentation are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Sivaramakrishnan Rajaraman , Feng Yang , Ghada Zamzmi , Zhiyun Xue , Sameer Antani

Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death from an infectious disease globally, with the highest burden in low- and middle-income countries. In these regions, limited healthcare access and high patient-to-provider ratios impede…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Daniil Filienko , Mahek Nizar , Javier Roberti , Denise Galdamez , Haroon Jakher , Sarah Iribarren , Weichao Yuwen , Martine De Cock

Lung cancer has been one of the most prevalent disease in recent years. According to the research of this field, more than 200,000 cases are identified each year in the US. Uncontrolled multiplication and growth of the lung cells result in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Hesamoddin Hosseini , Reza Monsefi , Shabnam Shadroo

Lung cancer is one of the prevalence diseases in the world which cause many deaths. Detecting early stages of lung cancer is so necessary. So, modeling and simulating some intelligent medical systems is an essential which can help…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 Ehsan Sadeghi Pour , Mahdi Esmaeili

Purpose:Chest X-ray (CXR) is an essential tool and one of the most prescribed imaging to detect pulmonary abnormalities, with a yearly estimate of over 2 billion imaging performed worldwide. However, the accurate and timely diagnosis of TB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Subhankar Chattoraj , Bhargava Reddy , Manoj Tadepalli , Preetham Putha

Background: This study proposes a Vision-Language Model (VLM) leveraging the SIGLIP encoder and Gemma-3b transformer decoder to enhance automated chronic tuberculosis (TB) screening. By integrating chest X-ray images with clinical data, the…

Chest X-rays are the most commonly available and affordable radiological examination for screening thoracic diseases. According to the domain knowledge of screening chest X-rays, the pathological information usually lay on the lung and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-27 Jiansheng Fang , Yanwu Xu , Yitian Zhao , Yuguang Yan , Junling Liu , Jiang Liu

Objective: The automatic discrimination between the coughing sounds produced by patients with tuberculosis (TB) and those produced by patients with other lung ailments. Approach: We present experiments based on a dataset of 1358 forced…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Madhurananda Pahar , Marisa Klopper , Byron Reeve , Grant Theron , Rob Warren , Thomas Niesler

Since, cancer is curable when diagnosed at an early stage, lung cancer screening plays an important role in preventive care. Although both low dose computed tomography (LDCT) and computed tomography (CT) scans provide more medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Worawate Ausawalaithong , Sanparith Marukatat , Arjaree Thirach , Theerawit Wilaiprasitporn

Chest X-rays play a pivotal role in diagnosing respiratory diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, and COVID-19, which are prevalent and present unique diagnostic challenges due to overlapping visual features and variability in image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Yiming Lei , Michael Nguyen , Tzu Chia Liu , Hyounkyun Oh

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Lung cancer screening (LCS) using annual low-dose computed tomography (CT) scanning has been proven to significantly reduce lung cancer mortality by detecting cancerous…

Image segmentation is a fundamental problem in medical image analysis. In recent years, deep neural networks achieve impressive performances on many medical image segmentation tasks by supervised learning on large manually annotated data.…

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The use of ImageNet pre-trained networks is becoming widespread in the medical imaging community. It enables training on small datasets, commonly available in medical imaging tasks. The recent emergence of a large Chest X-ray dataset opened…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-04 Ophir Gozes , Hayit Greenspan

Brain tumor segmentation is one of the most challenging problems in medical image analysis. The goal of brain tumor segmentation is to generate accurate delineation of brain tumor regions. In recent years, deep learning methods have shown…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Zhihua Liu , Lei Tong , Zheheng Jiang , Long Chen , Feixiang Zhou , Qianni Zhang , Xiangrong Zhang , Yaochu Jin , Huiyu Zhou

Several reasons explain the significant role that chest X-rays play on supporting clinical analysis and early disease detection in pediatric patients, such as low cost, high resolution, low radiation levels, and high availability. In the…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Afonso U. Fonseca , Gabriel S. Vieira , Fabrízzio A. A. M. N. Soares , Renato F. Bulcão-Neto

Lung diseases are a leading cause of child mortality in the developing world, with India accounting for approximately half of global pneumonia deaths (370,000) in 2016. Timely diagnosis is crucial for reducing mortality rates. This paper…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-13 Mihir Jain

Chest X-ray (CXR) imaging remains one of the most widely used diagnostic tools for detecting pulmonary diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) and pneumonia. Recent advances in deep learning, particularly Vision Transformers (ViTs), have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Faisal Ahmed

Coronavirus has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths. Fatalities could decrease if every patient could get suitable treatment by the healthcare system. Machine learning, especially computer vision methods based on deep learning, can help…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-27 Parham Yazdekhasty , Ali Zindari , Zahra Nabizadeh-ShahreBabak , Pejman Khadivi , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi