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Breast cancer has the highest incidence and second highest mortality rate for women in the US. Our study aims to utilize deep learning for benign/malignant classification of mammogram tumors using a subset of cases from the Digital Database…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Darvin Yi , Rebecca Lynn Sawyer , David Cohn , Jared Dunnmon , Carson Lam , Xuerong Xiao , Daniel Rubin

Breast cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related mortality among women worldwide. Ultrasound imaging, widely used due to its safety and cost-effectiveness, plays a key role in early detection, especially in patients with dense breast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Mohammad Abbadi , Yassine Himeur , Shadi Atalla , Wathiq Mansoor

Purpose: To develop and evaluate the accuracy of a multi-view deep learning approach to the analysis of high-resolution synthetic mammograms from digital breast tomosynthesis screening cases, and to assess the effect on accuracy of image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Saeed Seyyedi , Margaret J. Wong , Debra M. Ikeda , Curtis P. Langlotz

Deep learning has introduced several learning-based methods to recognize breast tumours and presents high applicability in breast cancer diagnostics. It has presented itself as a practical installment in Computer-Aided Diagnostic (CAD)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-15 Timothy Kwong , Samaneh Mazaheri

While state-of-the-art models for breast cancer detection leverage multi-view mammograms for enhanced diagnostic accuracy, they often focus solely on visual mammography data. However, radiologists document valuable lesion descriptors that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Gil Ben-Artzi , Feras Daragma , Shahar Mahpod

Breast cancer is a leading cause of death among women globally, and early detection is critical for improving survival rates. This paper introduces an innovative framework that integrates Vision Transformers (ViT) and Graph Neural Networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yeming Cai , Zhenglin Li , Yang Wang

Some recent studies have described deep convolutional neural networks to diagnose breast cancer in mammograms with similar or even superior performance to that of human experts. One of the best techniques does two transfer learnings: the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Daniel G. P. Petrini , Carlos Shimizu , Rosimeire A. Roela , Gabriel V. Valente , Maria A. A. K. Folgueira , Hae Yong Kim

Breast cancer is one of the most common cause of deaths among women. Mammography is a widely used imaging modality that can be used for cancer detection in its early stages. Deep learning is widely used for the detection of cancerous masses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Ahmed Rasheed , Muhammad Shahzad Younis , Junaid Qadir , Muhammad Bilal

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death among women worldwide. Nevertheless, it is also one of the most treatable malignances if detected early. Screening for breast cancer with digital mammography (DM) has been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Fei Gao , Teresa Wu , Jing Li , Bin Zheng , Lingxiang Ruan , Desheng Shang , Bhavika Patel

Breast cancer is a major cause of cancer death among women, emphasising the importance of early detection for improved treatment outcomes and quality of life. Mammography, the primary diagnostic imaging test, poses challenges due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Yijun Yang , Shujun Wang , Lihao Liu , Sarah Hickman , Fiona J Gilbert , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero

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

This study develops and validates a patient-specific Monte Carlo (MC) dosimetry framework for propagation-based phase-contrast breast CT (BCT) at the Imaging and Medical Beamline (IMBL), ANSTO Australian Synchrotron, for accurate mean…

Methods to detect malignant lesions from screening mammograms are usually trained with fully annotated datasets, where images are labelled with the localisation and classification of cancerous lesions. However, real-world screening…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Yuanhong Chen , Yuyuan Liu , Chong Wang , Michael Elliott , Chun Fung Kwok , Carlos Pena-Solorzano , Yu Tian , Fengbei Liu , Helen Frazer , Davis J. McCarthy , Gustavo Carneiro

Breast cancer is a disease that threatens many women's life, thus, early and accurate detection plays a key role in reducing the mortality rate. Mammography stands as the reference technique for breast cancer screening; nevertheless, many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Juan Zuluaga-Gomez , N. Zerhouni , Z. Al Masry , C. Devalland , C. Varnier

Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer with a high mortality rate in women over the age of 40. Many studies have shown that the detection of cancer at earlier stages significantly reduces patients' mortality and morbidity rages.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 Takumi Noda , Yuu Jinnai , Naoki Tomii , Takashi Azuma

Over the past decades, computer-aided diagnosis tools for breast cancer have been developed to enhance screening procedures, yet their clinical adoption remains challenged by data variability and inherent biases. Although foundation models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Elodie Germani , Ilayda Selin Türk , Fatima Zeineddine , Charbel Mourad , Shadi Albarqouni

Lesion detection in digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is an important and a challenging problem characterized by a low prevalence of images containing tumors. Due to the label scarcity problem, large deep learning models and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Yifan Zhang , Haoyu Dong , Nicholas Konz , Hanxue Gu , Maciej A. Mazurowski

In recent years, the integration of advanced imaging techniques and deep learning methods has significantly advanced computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems for breast cancer detection and classification. Transformers, which have shown great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Mahtab Ranjbar , Mehdi Mohebbi , Mahdi Cherakhloo , Bijan Vosoughi. Vahdat

Breast cancer screening relies heavily on mammography, where the craniocaudal (CC) and mediolateral oblique (MLO) views provide complementary information for diagnosis. However, many datasets lack complete paired views, limiting the…

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, and hundreds of thousands of unnecessary biopsies are done around the world at a tremendous cost. It is crucial to reduce the rate of biopsies that turn out to be benign tissue. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Nan Wu , Zhe Huang , Yiqiu Shen , Jungkyu Park , Jason Phang , Taro Makino , S. Gene Kim , Kyunghyun Cho , Laura Heacock , Linda Moy , Krzysztof J. Geras