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Objective. Limited access to breast cancer diagnosis globally leads to delayed treatment. Ultrasound, an effective yet underutilized method, requires specialized training for sonographers, which hinders its widespread use. Approach. Volume…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Donya Khaledyan , Thomas J. Marini , Avice OConnell , Steven Meng , Jonah Kan , Galen Brennan , Yu Zhao , Timothy M. Baran , Kevin J. Parker

Data scarcity hinders deep learning for medical imaging. We propose a framework for breast cancer classification in thermograms that addresses this using a Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DPM) for data augmentation. Our DPM-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Sepehr Salem , M. Moein Esfahani , Jingyu Liu , Vince Calhoun

Purpose: The scarcity of high-quality curated labeled medical training data remains one of the major limitations in applying artificial intelligence (AI) systems to breast cancer diagnosis. Deep models for mammogram analysis and mass (or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Han Chen , Anne L. Martel

The deep learning technique has been shown to be effectively addressed several image analysis tasks in the computer-aided diagnosis scheme for mammography. The training of an efficacious deep learning model requires large data with diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Zheren Li , Zhiming Cui , Lichi Zhang , Sheng Wang , Chenjin Lei , Xi Ouyang , Dongdong Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Yajia Gu , Zaiyi Liu , Chunling Liu , Dinggang Shen , Jie-Zhi Cheng

Mammography is the most effective and available tool for breast cancer screening. However, the low positive predictive value of breast biopsy resulting from mammogram interpretation leads to approximately 70% unnecessary biopsies with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Sahar A. Mokhtar , Alaa. M. Elsayad

Building accurate and robust artificial intelligence systems for medical image assessment requires not only the research and design of advanced deep learning models but also the creation of large and curated sets of annotated training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Florin C. Ghesu , Bogdan Georgescu , Awais Mansoor , Youngjin Yoo , Dominik Neumann , Pragneshkumar Patel , R. S. Vishwanath , James M. Balter , Yue Cao , Sasa Grbic , Dorin Comaniciu

Breast density assessment is a crucial component of mammographic interpretation, with high breast density (BI-RADS categories C and D) representing both a significant risk factor for developing breast cancer and a technical challenge for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Peyman Sharifian , Xiaotong Hong , Alireza Karimian , Mehdi Amini , Hossein Arabi

Breast cancer screening, primarily conducted through mammography, is often supplemented with ultrasound for women with dense breast tissue. However, existing deep learning models analyze each modality independently, missing opportunities to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Yiqiu Shen , Jungkyu Park , Frank Yeung , Eliana Goldberg , Laura Heacock , Farah Shamout , Krzysztof J. Geras

Breast-conserving surgery (BCS) aims to completely remove malignant lesions while maximizing healthy tissue preservation. Intraoperative margin assessment is essential to achieve a balance between thorough cancer resection and tissue…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Pouya Afshin , David Helminiak , Tongtong Lu , Tina Yen , Julie M. Jorns , Mollie Patton , Bing Yu , Dong Hye Ye

Digital breast tomosynthesis is rapidly replacing digital mammography as the basic x-ray technique for evaluation of the breasts. However, the sparse sampling and limited angular range gives rise to different artifacts, which manufacturers…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Nikita Moriakov , Koen Michielsen , Jonas Adler , Ritse Mann , Ioannis Sechopoulos , Jonas Teuwen

A major limitation in applying deep learning to artificial intelligence (AI) systems is the scarcity of high-quality curated datasets. We investigate strong augmentation based self-supervised learning (SSL) techniques to address this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 John D. Miller , Vignesh A. Arasu , Albert X. Pu , Laurie R. Margolies , Weiva Sieh , Li Shen

Recent advancements in detecting tumors using deep learning on breast ultrasound images (BUSI) have demonstrated significant success. Deep CNNs and vision-transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated individually promising initial performance.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Aamir Mehmood , Yue Hu , Saddam Hussain Khan

Breast cancer ranks as the most prevalent form of cancer diagnosed in women, and diagnosis faces several challenges, a change in the size, shape and appearance of breasts, dense breast tissue, lumps or thickening in the breast especially if…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Abdulqader Mohammed , Mohammed Abdel Razek , Mohamed El-dosuky , Ahmed Sobhi

Introduction: Quantification of dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE)-MRI has the potential to provide valuable clinical information, but robust pharmacokinetic modeling remains a challenge for clinical adoption. Methods: A 7-layer neural network…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Ouri Cohen , Soudabeh Kargar , Sungmin Woo , Alberto Vargas , Ricardo Otazo

Objective: To develop an automatic image normalization algorithm for intensity correction of images from breast dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) acquired by different MRI scanners with various imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Jun Zhang , Ashirbani Saha , Brian J. Soher , Maciej A. Mazurowski

Breast cancer has become one of the most prevalent cancers by which people all over the world are affected and is posed serious threats to human beings, in a particular woman. In order to provide effective treatment or prevention of this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-15 Pouya Hallaj Zavareh , Atefeh Safayari , Hamidreza Bolhasani

Accurate tumor segmentation and classification in breast ultrasound (BUS) imaging remain challenging due to low contrast, speckle noise, and diverse lesion morphology. This study presents a multi-task deep learning framework that jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Samuel E. Johnny , Bernes L. Atabonfack , Israel Alagbe , Assane Gueye

Despite remarkable progress on visual recognition tasks, deep neural-nets still struggle to generalize well when training data is scarce or highly imbalanced, rendering them extremely vulnerable to real-world examples. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Shiran Zada , Itay Benou , Michal Irani

Clinical diagnosis of breast malignancy (BM) is a challenging problem in the recent era. In particular, Deep learning (DL) models have continued to offer important solutions for early BM diagnosis but their performance experiences…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-04 Lipismita Panigrahi , Prianka Rani Saha , Jurdana Masuma Iqrah , Sushil Prasad

Phyllodes tumors (PTs) are rare fibroepithelial breast lesions that are difficult to classify preoperatively due to their radiological similarity to benign fibroadenomas. This often leads to unnecessary surgical excisions. To address this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Farhan Fuad Abir , Abigail Elliott Daly , Kyle Anderman , Tolga Ozmen , Laura J. Brattain