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Automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) is a new and promising imaging modality for breast cancer detection and diagnosis, which could provide intuitive 3D information and coronal plane information with great diagnostic value. However, manually…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-03 Junxiong Yu , Chaoyu Chen , Xin Yang , Yi Wang , Dan Yan , Jianxing Zhang , Dong Ni

Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is now the standard of care for breast cancer screening in the USA. Accurate segmentation of fibroglandular tissue in DBT images is essential for personalized risk estimation, but algorithm development is…

In recent years, convolutional neural networks for semantic segmentation of breast ultrasound (BUS) images have shown great success; however, two major challenges still exist. 1) Most current approaches inherently lack the ability to…

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In recent years, many mammographic image analysis methods have been introduced for improving cancer classification tasks. Two major issues of mammogram classification tasks are leveraging multi-view mammographic information and…

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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,…

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Breast cancer is one of the most serious disease affecting women's health. Due to low cost, portable, no radiation, and high efficiency, breast ultrasound (BUS) imaging is the most popular approach for diagnosing early breast cancer.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Kuan Huang , Yingtao Zhang , H. D. Cheng , Ping Xing , Boyu Zhang

Fiber-like features are an important aspect of breast imaging. Vessels and ducts are present in all breast images, and spiculations radiating from a mass can indicate malignancy. Accordingly, fiber objects are one of the three types of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Sean D. Rose , Emil Y. Sidky , Ingrid Reiser , Xiaochuan Pan

Incorporating human domain knowledge for breast tumor diagnosis is challenging, since shape, boundary, curvature, intensity, or other common medical priors vary significantly across patients and cannot be employed. This work proposes a new…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-03 Aleksandar Vakanski , Min Xian , Phoebe Freer

There are a number of clinically relevant tasks in digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) involving the detection and visual assessment of fiber-like structures such as Cooper's ligaments, blood vessels, and spiculated lesions. Such structures…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Sean D. Rose , Ingrid Reiser , Emil Y. Sidky , Xiaochuan Pan

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women globally, with early diagnosis and precise classification being crucial. With the advancement of deep learning and computer vision, the automatic classification of breast tissue…

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Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed human cancer in the United States at present. Early detection is crucial for its successful treatment. X-ray mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis are currently the main methods for…

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Mammography, an X-ray-based imaging technique, remains central to the early detection of breast cancer. Recent advances in artificial intelligence have enabled increasingly sophisticated computer-aided diagnostic methods, evolving from…

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Histology imaging is an essential diagnosis method to finalize the grade and stage of cancer of different tissues, especially for breast cancer diagnosis. Specialists often disagree on the final diagnosis on biopsy tissue due to the complex…

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Breast cancer is one of the most common causes of death among women worldwide. Early detection helps in reducing the number of deaths. Automated 3D Breast Ultrasound (ABUS) is a newer approach for breast screening, which has many advantages…

The rapid development of deep learning, a family of machine learning techniques, has spurred much interest in its application to medical imaging problems. Here, we develop a deep learning algorithm that can accurately detect breast cancer…

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Annotating medical images demands significant time and expertise, often requiring pathologists to invest hundreds of hours in labeling mammary epithelial nuclei datasets. We address this critical challenge by achieving 95.5% Dice score…

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One issue with computer based histopathology image analysis is that the size of the raw image is usually very large. Taking the raw image as input to the deep learning model would be computationally expensive while resizing the raw image to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Bolei Xu , Jingxin Liu , Xianxu Hou , Bozhi Liu , Jon Garibaldi , Ian O. Ellis , Andy Green , Linlin Shen , Guoping Qiu

Deep neural networks have reached remarkable achievements in medical image processing tasks, specifically in classifying and detecting various diseases. However, when confronted with limited data, these networks face a critical…

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