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Diagnostic imaging plays a critical role in healthcare, serving as a fundamental asset for timely diagnosis, disease staging and management as well as for treatment choice, planning, guidance, and follow-up. Among the diagnostic imaging…

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Reconstructed 3D ultrasound volume provides more context information compared to a sequence of 2D scanning frames, which is desirable for various clinical applications such as ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy. Nevertheless, 3D volume…

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Medical imaging based prostate cancer diagnosis procedure uses intra-operative transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) imaging to visualize the prostate shape and location to collect tissue samples. Correct tissue sampling from prostate requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-22 M. S. Hossain , A. P. Paplinski , J. M. Betts

Ultrasound image quality has continually been improving. However, when needles or other metallic objects are operating inside the tissue, the resulting reverberation artifacts can severely corrupt the surrounding image quality. Such effects…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-10 Alex Ling Yu Hung , Edward Chen , John Galeotti

Early detection of pulmonary cancer is the most promising way to enhance a patient's chance for survival. Accurate pulmonary nodule detection in computed tomography (CT) images is a crucial step in diagnosing pulmonary cancer. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Jia Ding , Aoxue Li , Zhiqiang Hu , Liwei Wang

The main objective of this project is to segment different breast ultrasound images to find out lesion area by discarding the low contrast regions as well as the inherent speckle noise. The proposed method consists of three stages (removing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Ibrahim Sadek , Mohamed Elawady , Viktor Stefanovski

Medical ultrasound is widely used technique for diagnosing internal organs. As common artifacts, shadows often appear in ultrasound images. Detecting such shadows is curious because they prevent accurate diagnosis. In this paper, we propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-08 Suguru Yasutomi , Tatsuya Arakaki , Ryuji Hamamoto

Discriminating lung nodules as malignant or benign is still an underlying challenge. To address this challenge, radiologists need computer aided diagnosis (CAD) systems which can assist in learning discriminative imaging features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Maria J. M. Chuquicusma , Sarfaraz Hussein , Jeremy Burt , Ulas Bagci

Efficient intravascular access in trauma and critical care significantly impacts patient outcomes. However, the availability of skilled medical personnel in austere environments is often limited. Autonomous robotic ultrasound systems can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Rohini Banerjee , Cecilia G. Morales , Artur Dubrawski

Medical ultrasound video analysis is challenging due to variable sequence lengths, subtle spatial cues, and the need for interpretable video-level assessment. We introduce GADA, a Graph Attention-based Detection Aggregation framework that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Li Chen , Naveen Balaraju , Jochen Kruecker , Balasundar Raju , Alvin Chen

Mammography and ultrasound are extensively used by radiologists as complementary modalities to achieve better performance in breast cancer diagnosis. However, existing computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems for the breast are generally…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-24 Gavriel Habib , Nahum Kiryati , Miri Sklair-Levy , Anat Shalmon , Osnat Halshtok Neiman , Renata Faermann Weidenfeld , Yael Yagil , Eli Konen , Arnaldo Mayer

Despite today's prevalence of ultrasound imaging in medicine, ultrasound signal-to-noise ratio is still affected by several sources of noise and artefacts. Moreover, enhancing ultrasound image quality involves balancing concurrent factors…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Yuxin Zhang , Clément Huneau , Jérôme Idier , Diana Mateus

Vascular segmentation extracts blood vessels from images and serves as the basis for diagnosing various diseases, like ophthalmic diseases. Ophthalmologists often require high-resolution segmentation results for analysis, which leads to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Yan Hu , Zhongxi Qiu , Dan Zeng , Li Jiang , Chen Lin , Jiang Liu

Ultrasound (US) imaging is one of the most commonly used non-invasive imaging techniques. However, US image acquisition requires simultaneous guidance of the transducer and interpretation of images, which is a highly challenging task that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Simona Treivase , Alberto Gomez , Jacqueline Matthew , Emily Skelton , Julia A. Schnabel , Nicolas Toussaint

Diffuse optical breast imaging utilizes near-infrared (NIR) light propagation through tissues to assess the optical properties of tissue for the identification of abnormal tissue. This optical imaging approach is sensitive, cost-effective,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Wenxiang Cong , Xavier Intes , Ge Wang

Pulmonary nodule detection using low-dose Computed Tomography (CT) is often the first step in lung disease screening and diagnosis. Recently, algorithms based on deep convolutional neural nets have shown great promise for automated nodule…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Hao Tang , Xingwei Liu , Xiaohui Xie

Thyroid nodule segmentation in ultrasound images is crucial for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning. However, existing methods face challenges in segmentation accuracy, interpretability, and generalization, which hinder their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xinjie Sun , Boxiong Wei , Yalong Jiang , Liquan Mao , Qi Zhao

Lung cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide and early screening is critical for improving survival outcomes. In clinical practice, the contextual structure of nodules and the accumulated experience of radiologists are the two core…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Jianpeng Zhang , Xianghua Ye , Jianfeng Zhang , Yuxing Tang , Minfeng Xu , Jianfei Guo , Xin Chen , Zaiyi Liu , Jingren Zhou , Le Lu , Ling Zhang

The 3D simulation model of the lung was established by using the reconstruction method. A computer aided pulmonary nodule detection model was constructed. The process iterates over the images to refine the lung nodule recognition model…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Yutian Yang , Hongjie Qiu , Yulu Gong , Xiaoyi Liu , Yang Lin , Muqing Li

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…