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Automatic lymph node (LN) segmentation and detection for cancer staging are critical. In clinical practice, computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) imaging detect abnormal LNs. Despite its low contrast and variety in…

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Medical images from different healthcare centers exhibit varied data distributions, posing significant challenges for adapting lung nodule detection due to the domain shift between training and application phases. Traditional unsupervised…

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The diagnosis of medical diseases faces challenges such as the misdiagnosis of small lesions. Deep learning, particularly multimodal approaches, has shown great potential in the field of medical disease diagnosis. However, the differences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jianxun Yu , Ruiquan Ge , Zhipeng Wang , Cheng Yang , Chenyu Lin , Xianjun Fu , Jikui Liu , Ahmed Elazab , Changmiao Wang

The use of deep learning (DL) in medical image analysis has significantly improved the ability to predict lung cancer. In this study, we introduce a novel deep convolutional neural network (CNN) model, named ResNet+, which is based on the…

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In this work, we address the challenge of binary lung nodule classification (benign vs malignant) using CT images by proposing a multi-level attention stacked ensemble of deep neural networks. Three pretrained backbones -- EfficientNet V2…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Uzzal Saha , Surya Prakash

Lung cancer is the leading reason behind cancer-related deaths within the world. Early detection of lung nodules is vital for increasing the survival rate of cancer patients. Traditionally, physicians should manually identify the world…

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In the first step, a pre-trained model (YOLO) was used to detect all suspicious nod-ules. The YOLO model was re-trained using 397 CT images to detect the entire nodule in CT images. To maximize the sensitivity of the model, a confidence…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Yashar Ahmadyar Razlighi , Alireza Kamali-Asl , Hossein Arabi

Computed tomography (CT) examinations are commonly used to predict lung nodule malignancy in patients, which are shown to improve noninvasive early diagnosis of lung cancer. It remains challenging for computational approaches to achieve…

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Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths. Early detection through low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening has been shown to significantly reduce mortality but suffers from a high false positive rate that leads to unnecessary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-04 Jason L. Causey , Yuanfang Guan , Wei Dong , Karl Walker , Jake A. Qualls , Fred Prior , Xiuzhen Huang

Lung cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers, and early diagnosis is critical because the survival rate declines sharply once the disease progresses to advanced stages. However, achieving an early diagnosis remains challenging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yutong Wu , Yifan Wang , Qining Zhang , Chuan Zhou , Lei Ying

Lung cancer accounts for the highest number of cancer deaths globally. Early diagnosis of lung nodules is very important to reduce the mortality rate of patients by improving the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer. This work proposes an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Tizita Nesibu Shewaye , Alhayat Ali Mekonnen

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…

Lung nodule malignancy prediction is an essential step in the early diagnosis of lung cancer. Besides the difficulties commonly discussed, the challenges of this task also come from the ambiguous labels provided by annotators, since deep…

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Pulmonary diseases are a public health problem that requires accurate and fast diagnostic techniques. In this paper, a method based on convolutional neural networks (CNN), Data Augmentation, ResNet50 and Vision Transformers (ViT) is…

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Lung and colon cancers are predominant contributors to cancer mortality. Early and accurate diagnosis is crucial for effective treatment. By utilizing imaging technology in different image detection, learning models have shown promise in…

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The irregular and challenging characteristics of lung adenocarcinoma nodules in computed tomography (CT) images complicate staging diagnosis, making accurate segmentation critical for clinicians to extract detailed lesion information. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Yuke Wu , Xiang Liu , Yunyu Shi , Xinyi Chen , Zhenglei Wang , YuQing Xu , Shuo Hong Wang

Considering the increased workload in pathology laboratories today, automated tools such as artificial intelligence models can help pathologists with their tasks and ease the workload. In this paper, we are proposing a segmentation model…

Early diagnosis of lung cancer is challenging due to biological uncertainty and the limited understanding of the biological mechanisms driving nodule progression. To address this, we propose Nodule-Aligned Multimodal (Latent) Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 James Song , Yifan Wang , Chuan Zhou , Liyue Shen

The presence of tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs) on pancreatic pathological images is an important prognostic indicator of pancreatic tumors. Therefore, TLSs detection on pancreatic pathological images plays a crucial role in diagnosis…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-28 Bingxue Wang , Liwen Zou , Jun Chen , Yingying Cao , Zhenghua Cai , Yudong Qiu , Liang Mao , Zhongqiu Wang , Jingya Chen , Luying Gui , Xiaoping Yang

Identification of lymph nodes (LN) in T2 Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an important step performed by radiologists during the assessment of lymphoproliferative diseases. The size of the nodes play a crucial role in their staging, and…

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