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Screening mammography is an important front-line tool for the early detection of breast cancer, and some 39 million exams are conducted each year in the United States alone. Here, we describe a multi-scale convolutional neural network (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-24 William Lotter , Greg Sorensen , David Cox

In recent years, weakly supervised models have aided in mass detection using mammography images, decreasing the need for pixel-level annotations. However, most existing models in the literature rely on Class Activation Maps (CAM) as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Vicente Sampaio , Filipe R. Cordeiro

Breast cancer, the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths globally, accounts for a quarter of all cancer cases [1]. To lower this death rate, it is crucial to detect tumors early, as early-stage detection significantly improves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Samia Saeed , Khuram Naveed

Accurate identification of breast masses is crucial in diagnosing breast cancer; however, it can be challenging due to their small size and being camouflaged in surrounding normal glands. Worse still, it is also expensive in clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xinyu Xiong , Churan Wang , Wenxue Li , Guanbin Li

Super-resolution ultrasound imaging with ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) offers a high-resolution view of microvascular structures. Yet, ULM image quality heavily relies on precise microbubble (MB) detection. Despite the crucial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Sepideh K. Gharamaleki , Brandon Helfield , Hassan Rivaz

Breast cancer detection through mammography interpretation remains difficult because of the minimal nature of abnormalities that experts need to identify alongside the variable interpretations between readers. The potential of CNNs for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Ojonugwa Oluwafemi Ejiga Peter , Daniel Emakporuena , Bamidele Dayo Tunde , Maryam Abdulkarim , Abdullahi Bn Umar

This research aims to investigate the classification accuracy of various state-of-the-art image classification models across different categories of breast ultrasound images, as defined by the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Malitha Gunawardhana , Norbert Zolek

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) demonstrates strong potential in medical image analysis but requires substantial data and computational resources. Due to these restrictions, existing CLIP applications in medical imaging focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yuexi Du , John Onofrey , Nicha C. Dvornek

Multi-view 3D object detection systems often struggle with generating precise predictions due to the challenges in estimating depth from images, increasing redundant and incorrect detections. Our paper presents Ray Denoising, an innovative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Feng Liu , Tengteng Huang , Qianjing Zhang , Haotian Yao , Chi Zhang , Fang Wan , Qixiang Ye , Yanzhao Zhou

Automated mammography screening plays an important role in early breast cancer detection. However, current machine learning models, developed on some training datasets, may exhibit performance degradation and bias when deployed in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Amit Kumar Kundu , Florence X. Doo , Vaishnavi Patil , Amitabh Varshney , Joseph Jaja

Although fusion of information from multiple views of mammograms plays an important role to increase accuracy of breast cancer detection, developing multi-view mammograms-based computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) schemes still faces challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Xuxin Chen , Yuheng Li , Mingzhe Hu , Ella Salari , Xiaoqian Chen , Richard L. J. Qiu , Bin Zheng , Xiaofeng Yang

Breast cancer is one of the most threatening diseases in women's life; thus, the early and accurate diagnosis plays a key role in reducing the risk of death in a patient's life. Mammography stands as the reference technique for breast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Juan Zuluaga-Gomez

Detecting abnormalities in medical images poses unique challenges due to differences in feature representations and the intricate relationship between anatomical structures and abnormalities. This is especially evident in mammography, where…

This paper presents an algorithm which aims to assist the radiologist in identifying breast cancer at its earlier stages. It combines several image processing techniques like image negative, thresholding and segmentation techniques for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-11-04 Y. Ireaneus Anna Rejani , S. Thamarai Selvi

Deep learning methods have demonstrated promising results in predicting BI-RADS scores from mammography images. However, the interpretation of these images can vary, leading to discrepancies even among radiologists. Given the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Halil Ibrahim Gulluk , Olivier Gevaert

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death after lung cancer in women. Early detection of breast cancer in X-ray mammography is believed to have effectively reduced the mortality rate. However, a relatively high false…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Xuejiao Tang , Liuhua Zhang , Wenbin Zhang , Xin Huang , Vasileios Iosifidis , Zhen Liu , Mingli Zhang , Enza Messina , Ji Zhang

Breast cancer is one of the most common cause of deaths among women. Mammography is a widely used imaging modality that can be used for cancer detection in its early stages. Deep learning is widely used for the detection of cancerous masses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Ahmed Rasheed , Muhammad Shahzad Younis , Junaid Qadir , Muhammad Bilal

Automatic mammogram classification and mass segmentation play a critical role in a computer-aided mammogram screening system. In this work, we present a unified mammogram analysis framework for both whole-mammogram classification and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Rongzhao Zhang , Han Zhang , Albert C. S. Chung

Background \& purpose: The recent emergence of neural networks models for the analysis of breast images has been a breakthrough in computer aided diagnostic. This approach was not yet developed in Contrast Enhanced Spectral Mammography…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-01 Clément Jailin , Pablo Milioni , Zhijin Li , Răzvan Iordache , Serge Muller

An advanced reliable low-cost form of screening method, Digital mammography has been used as an effective imaging method for breast cancer detection. With an increased focus on technologies to aid healthcare, Mammogram images have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Marawan Elbatel