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In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of deep learning techniques for lung nodule classification in computed tomography scans. Using less than 10,000 training examples, our deep networks perform two times better than a standard…

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Objective: Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, primarily due to delayed diagnosis and poor early detection. This study aims to develop a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system that leverages large…

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We are developing a computer-aided detection (CAD) system for the identification of small pulmonary nodules in screening CT scans. The main modules of our system, i.e. a dot-enhancement filter for nodule candidate selection and a neural…

Medical Physics · Physics 2009-04-15 P. Delogu , M. E. Fantacci , I. Gori , A. Preite Martinez , A. Retico , A. Tata

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

This paper discusses the role of Transfer Learning (TL) and transformers in cancer detection based on image analysis. With the enormous evolution of cancer patients, the identification of cancer cells in a patient's body has emerged as a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-17 Amine Bechar , Youssef Elmir , Rafik Medjoudj , Yassine Himeur , Abbes Amira

Lung cancer, particularly in its advanced stages, remains a leading cause of death globally. Though early detection via low-dose computed tomography (CT) is promising, the identification of high-risk factors crucial for surgical mode…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Xiaotong Fu , Xiangyu Meng , Jing Zhou , Ying Ji

The accurate diagnosis of pathological subtypes of lung cancer is of paramount importance for follow-up treatments and prognosis managements. Assessment methods utilizing deep learning technologies have introduced novel approaches for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Yuan Jin , Gege Ma , Geng Chen , Tianling Lyu , Jan Egger , Junhui Lyu , Shaoting Zhang , Wentao Zhu

Lung cancer remains among the deadliest types of cancer in recent decades, and early lung nodule detection is crucial for improving patient outcomes. The limited availability of annotated medical imaging data remains a bottleneck in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Muniba Noreen , Furqan Shaukat

A computer-aided detection (CAD) system for the identification of pulmonary nodules in low-dose multi-detector helical Computed Tomography (CT) images with 1.25 mm slice thickness is presented. The basic modules of our lung-CAD system, a…

Lung cancer continues to be a major healthcare challenge with high morbidity and mortality rates among both men and women worldwide. The majority of lung cancer cases are of non-small cell lung cancer type. With the advent of targeted…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-23 Andrew A. Borkowski , Catherine P. Wilson , Steven A. Borkowski , Lauren A. Deland , Stephen M. Mastorides

Pneumonia, a prevalent respiratory infection, remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, particularly among vulnerable populations. Chest X-rays serve as a primary tool for pneumonia detection; however, variations in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Alireza Saber , Amirreza Fateh , Pouria Parhami , Alimohammad Siahkarzadeh , Mansoor Fateh , Saideh Ferdowsi

Statistical models for predicting lung cancer have the potential to facilitate earlier diagnosis of malignancy and avoid invasive workup of benign disease. Many models have been published, but comparative studies of their utility in…

Vision transformer-based methods are advancing the field of medical artificial intelligence and cancer imaging, including lung cancer applications. Recently, many researchers have developed vision transformer-based AI methods for lung…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-07 Hazrat Ali , Farida Mohsen , Zubair Shah

This paper introduces a novel low-cost device prototype for the automatic diagnosis of diseases, utilizing inputted symptoms and personal background. The engineering goal is to solve the problem of limited healthcare access with a single…

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Cancer is the uncontrollable cell division of abnormal cells inside the human body, which can spread to other body organs. It is one of the non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and NCDs accounts for 71% of total deaths worldwide whereas lung…

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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

Pulmonary nodule detection plays an important role in lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography (CT) scans. It remains challenging to build nodule detection deep learning models with good generalization performance due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Yuemeng Li , Yong Fan

Lung disease is a common health problem in many parts of the world. It is a significant risk to people health and quality of life all across the globe since it is responsible for five of the top thirty leading causes of death. Among them…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Pangoth Santhosh Kumar , Kundrapu Supriya , Mallikharjuna Rao K , Taraka Satya Krishna Teja Malisetti

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide, with lung adenocarcinoma being the most prevalent form of lung cancer. EGFR positive lung adenocarcinomas have been shown to have high response rates to TKI therapy, underlying the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Gabriele Campanella , David Ho , Ida Häggström , Anton S Becker , Jason Chang , Chad Vanderbilt , Thomas J Fuchs

Lung cancer is the primary cause of cancer-related mortality, claiming approximately 1.79 million lives globally in 2020, with an estimated 2.21 million new cases diagnosed within the same period. Among these, Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-16 Mahtab Darvish , Ryan Trask , Patrick Tallon , Mélina Khansari , Lei Ren , Michelle Hershman , Bardia Yousefi