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This paper provides a critical review of the literature on deep learning applications in breast tumor diagnosis using ultrasound and mammography images. It also summarizes recent advances in computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-05 Yuliana Jiménez-Gaona , María José Rodríguez-Álvarez , Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

Over the past decade, convolutional neural networks (CNN) have shown very competitive performance in medical image analysis tasks, such as disease classification, tumor segmentation, and lesion detection. CNN has great advantages in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Yin Dai , Yifan Gao

Breast cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Early detection is critical, yet manual histopathology analysis is complex and subject to inter-observer variability. While deep neural network-based diagnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Gul Sheeraz , Qun Chen , Liu Feiyu , Zhou Fengjin

The potential benefits of applying machine learning methods to -omics data are becoming increasingly apparent, especially in clinical settings. However, the unique characteristics of these data are not always well suited to machine learning…

We introduce Med-CTX, a fully transformer based multimodal framework for explainable breast cancer ultrasound segmentation. We integrate clinical radiology reports to boost both performance and interpretability. Med-CTX achieves exact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Enobong Adahada , Isabel Sassoon , Kate Hone , Yongmin Li

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death for women in the U.S. Early detection of breast cancer is key to higher survival rates of breast cancer patients. We are investigating infrared (IR) thermography as a noninvasive adjunct to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Ange Lou , Shuyue Guan , Nada Kamona , Murray Loew

Vision Transformers $(\texttt{ViT})$ have become the architecture of choice for many computer vision tasks, yet their performance in computer-aided diagnostics remains limited. Focusing on breast cancer detection from mammograms, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Samyak Sanghvi , Piyush Miglani , Sarvesh Shashikumar , Kaustubh R Borgavi , Veenu Singla , Chetan Arora

Data is one of the essential ingredients to power deep learning research. Small datasets, especially specific to medical institutes, bring challenges to deep learning training stage. This work aims to develop a practical deep multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Faik Aydin , Maggie Zhang , Michelle Ananda-Rajah , Gholamreza Haffari

Neural networks have become the standard technique for medical diagnostics, especially in cancer detection and classification. This work evaluates the performance of Vision Transformers architectures, including Swin Transformer and MaxViT,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Óscar A. Martín , Javier Sánchez

OncoVision is a multimodal AI pipeline that combines mammography images and clinical data for better breast cancer diagnosis. Employing an attention-based encoder-decoder backbone, it jointly segments four ROIs - masses, calcifications,…

Cancer is a highly heterogeneous condition that can occur almost anywhere in the human body. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose is an imaging modality commonly used to detect cancer due to its high sensitivity and clear visualisation of the pattern of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-17 Ashay Patel , Petru-Danial Tudiosu , Walter H. L. Pinaya , Gary Cook , Vicky Goh , Sebastien Ourselin , M. Jorge Cardoso

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality in women, and early detection is essential for improving outcomes. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a highly sensitive tool for breast cancer detection, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Smriti Joshi , Lidia Garrucho , Richard Osuala , Oliver Diaz , Karim Lekadir

Breast cancer is one of the deadliest cancers causing about massive number of patients to die annually all over the world according to the WHO. It is a kind of cancer that develops when the tissues of the breast grow rapidly and unboundly.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Mst. Mumtahina Labonno , D. M. Asadujjaman , Md. Mahfujur Rahman , Abdullah Tamim , Mst. Jannatul Ferdous , Rafi Muttaki Mahi

Computer-aided cancer survival risk prediction plays an important role in the timely treatment of patients. This is a challenging weakly supervised ordinal regression task associated with multiple clinical factors involved such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Zekang Yang , Hong Liu , Xiangdong Wang

Purpose: To develop a deep network architecture that would achieve fully automated radiologist-level segmentation of cancers at breast MRI. Materials and Methods: In this retrospective study, 38229 examinations (composed of 64063 individual…

Cancer survival prediction requires integrating pathological Whole Slide Images (WSIs) and genomic profiles, a challenging task due to the inherent heterogeneity and the complexity of modeling both inter- and intra-modality interactions.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Mingxin Liu , Chengfei Cai , Jun Li , Pengbo Xu , Jinze Li , Jiquan Ma , Jun Xu

Survival prediction is crucial for cancer patients as it provides early prognostic information for treatment planning. Recently, deep survival models based on deep learning and medical images have shown promising performance for survival…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Mingyuan Meng , Lei Bi , Michael Fulham , Dagan Feng , Jinman Kim

Precise breast cancer classification on histopathological images has the potential to greatly improve the diagnosis and patient outcome in oncology. The data imbalance problem largely stems from the inherent imbalance within medical image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-28 Majid Behzadpour , Bengie L. Ortiz , Ebrahim Azizi , Kai Wu

Early detection of breast cancer through screening mammography yields a 20-35% increase in survival rate; however, there are not enough radiologists to serve the growing population of women seeking screening mammography. Although commercial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Stefano Pedemonte , Brent Mombourquette , Alexis Goh , Trevor Tsue , Aaron Long , Sadanand Singh , Thomas Paul Matthews , Meet Shah , Jason Su

Background. Breast cancer screening programs using mammography have led to significant mortality reduction in high-income countries. However, many low- and middle-income countries lack resources for mammographic screening. Handheld breast…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-13 Arianna Bunnell , Dustin Valdez , Fredrik Strand , Yannik Glaser , Peter Sadowski , John A. Shepherd