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Nodule malignancy assessment is a complex, time-consuming and error-prone task. Current clinical practice requires measuring changes in size and density of the nodule at different time-points. State of the art solutions rely on 3D…

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Advances in healthcare research have significantly enhanced our understanding of disease mechanisms, diagnostic precision, and therapeutic options. Yet, lung cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide due…

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Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. The best solution for lung cancer is to diagnose the pulmonary nodules in the early stage, which is usually accomplished with the aid of thoracic computed tomography (CT). As deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Rui Xu , Zhi Liu , Yong Luo , Han Hu , Li Shen , Bo Du , Kaiming Kuang , Jiancheng Yang

The introduction of lung cancer screening programs will produce an unprecedented amount of chest CT scans in the near future, which radiologists will have to read in order to decide on a patient follow-up strategy. According to the current…

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

The early detection and early diagnosis of lung cancer are crucial to improve the survival rate of lung cancer patients. Pulmonary nodules detection results have a significant impact on the later diagnosis. In this work, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Tian Lan , Yuanyuan Li , Jonah Kimani Murugi , Yi Ding , Zhiguang Qin

Accurate lung nodule segmentation is crucial for early-stage lung cancer diagnosis, as it can substantially enhance patient survival rates. Computed tomography (CT) images are widely employed for early diagnosis in lung nodule analysis.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Muhammad Usman , Azka Rehman , Abd Ur Rehman , Abdullah Shahid , Tariq Mahmood Khan , Imran Razzak , Minyoung Chung , Yeong Gil Shin

Lung cancer has been one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide for years. With the emergence of deep learning, computer-assisted diagnosis (CAD) models based on learning algorithms can accelerate the nodule screening…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-03 Xuan Zhao , Benjamin Hou

Early detection of malignant lung nodules remains constrained by size and growth based screening criteria, often delaying diagnosis. We present an integrated AI system that jointly performs nodule detection and malignancy assessment…

Computed tomography imaging is a standard modality for detecting and assessing lung cancer. In order to evaluate the malignancy of lung nodules, clinical practice often involves expert qualitative ratings on several criteria describing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Mario Buty , Ziyue Xu , Mingchen Gao , Ulas Bagci , Aaron Wu , Daniel J. Mollura

Early diagnosis of lung cancer is a key intervention for the treatment of lung cancer computer aided diagnosis (CAD) can play a crucial role. However, most published CAD methods treat lung cancer diagnosis as a lung nodule classification…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-12 Junhua Chen , Haiyan Zeng , Chong Zhang , Zhenwei Shi , Andre Dekker , Leonard Wee , Inigo Bermejo

One of the challenges of using machine learning techniques with medical data is the frequent dearth of source image data on which to train. A representative example is automated lung cancer diagnosis, where nodule images need to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Steve Kommrusch , Louis-Noël Pouchet

PURPOSE: This study aimed to develop a deep learning-based tool to detect and localize lung nodules with chest radiographs(CXRs). We expected it to enhance the efficiency of interpreting CXRs and reduce the possibilities of delayed…

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Diagnosing lung cancer typically involves physicians identifying lung nodules in Computed tomography (CT) scans and generating diagnostic reports based on their morphological features and medical expertise. Although advancements have been…

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Medical images from different healthcare centers exhibit varied data distributions, posing significant challenges for adapting lung nodule detection due to the domain shift between training and application phases. Traditional unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Haifeng Zhao , Lixiang Jiang , Leilei Ma , Dengdi Sun , Yanping Fu

To predict lung nodule malignancy with a high sensitivity and specificity, we propose a fusion algorithm that combines handcrafted features (HF) into the features learned at the output layer of a 3D deep convolutional neural network (CNN).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Shulong Li , Panpan Xu , Bin Li , Liyuan Chen , Zhiguo Zhou , Hongxia Hao , Yingying Duan , Michael Folkert , Jianhua Ma , Steve Jiang , Jing Wang

Lung cancer is a major cause of cancer-related deaths, and early diagnosis and treatment are crucial for improving patients' survival outcomes. In this paper, we propose to employ convolutional neural networks to model the non-linear…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Xiawei Wang , James Sharpnack , Thomas C. M. Lee

The irregular and challenging characteristics of lung adenocarcinoma nodules in computed tomography (CT) images complicate staging diagnosis, making accurate segmentation critical for clinicians to extract detailed lesion information. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Yuke Wu , Xiang Liu , Yunyu Shi , Xinyi Chen , Zhenglei Wang , YuQing Xu , Shuo Hong Wang

Machine learning approaches hold great potential for the automated detection of lung nodules in chest radiographs, but training the algorithms requires vary large amounts of manually annotated images, which are difficult to obtain. Weak…

Follow-up serves an important role in the management of pulmonary nodules for lung cancer. Imaging diagnostic guidelines with expert consensus have been made to help radiologists make clinical decision for each patient. However, tumor…

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