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Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death across the world in women. Early diagnosis of this type of cancer is critical for treatment and patient care. Computer-aided detection (CAD) systems using convolutional neural networks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-27 Sara Hosseinzadeh Kassani , Peyman Hosseinzadeh Kassani , Michal J. Wesolowski , Kevin A. Schneider , Ralph Deters

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

Biopsies are the gold standard for breast cancer diagnosis. This task can be improved by the use of Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems, reducing the time of diagnosis and reducing the inter and intra-observer variability. The advances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Jonathan de Matos , Alceu de S. Britto , Luiz E. S. de Oliveira , Alessandro L. Koerich

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated strong potential in medical imaging; however, their high computational demands and tendency to overfit on small datasets limit their applicability in real-world clinical scenarios. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Aon Safdar , Mohamed Saadeldin

Prior works have proposed several strategies to reduce the computational cost of self-attention mechanism. Many of these works consider decomposing the self-attention procedure into regional and local feature extraction procedures that each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Ting Yao , Yehao Li , Yingwei Pan , Yu Wang , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Tao Mei

Accurate classification of brain tumors from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) plays a critical role in early diagnosis and effective treatment planning. In this study, we propose a deep learning framework based on Vision Transformers (ViT)…

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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

Capturing global contextual information plays a critical role in breast ultrasound (BUS) image classification. Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated reliable performance in tumor classification, they have inherent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-07 Bryar Shareef , Min Xian , Aleksandar Vakanski , Haotian Wang

Breast cancer is one of the most serious types of cancer that can occur in women. The automatic diagnosis of breast cancer by analyzing histological images (HIs) is important for patients and their prognosis. The classification of HIs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Hayder A. Khikani , Naira Elazab , Ahmed Elgarayhi , Mohammed Elmogy , Mohammed Sallah

Transformer has been widely used in histopathology whole slide image (WSI) classification for the purpose of tumor grading, prognosis analysis, etc. However, the design of token-wise self-attention and positional embedding strategy in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yushan Zheng , Jun Li , Jun Shi , Fengying Xie , Zhiguo Jiang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Yongxiang Huang , Albert Chi-shing Chung

Diagnosis of breast cancer malignancy at the early stages is a crucial step for controlling its side effects. Histopathological analysis provides a unique opportunity for malignant breast cancer detection. However, such a task would be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-17 Ardavan Modarres , Erfan Ebrahim Esfahani , Mahsa Bahrami

Self-attention is central to the success of Transformer architectures; however, learning the query, key, and value projections from random initialization remains challenging and computationally expensive. In this paper, we propose two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Hongyi Pan , Emadeldeen Hamdan , Xin Zhu , Ahmet Enis Cetin , Ulas Bagci

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as state-of-the-art models for various vision tasks recently. However, their heavy computation costs remain daunting for resource-limited devices. To address this, researchers have dedicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Ao Wang , Hui Chen , Zijia Lin , Sicheng Zhao , Jungong Han , Guiguang Ding

Attention-based vision models, such as Vision Transformer (ViT) and its variants, have shown promising performance in various computer vision tasks. However, these emerging architectures suffer from large model sizes and high computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Jinqi Xiao , Miao Yin , Yu Gong , Xiao Zang , Jian Ren , Bo Yuan

Automated methods for breast cancer detection have focused on 2D mammography and have largely ignored 3D digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), which is frequently used in clinical practice. The two key challenges in developing automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Yu Zhang , Xiaoqin Wang , Hunter Blanton , Gongbo Liang , Xin Xing , Nathan Jacobs

Accurate diagnosis of breast cancer in histopathology images is challenging due to the heterogeneity of cancer cell growth as well as of a variety of benign breast tissue proliferative lesions. In this paper, we propose a practical and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Xingyu Li , Marko Radulovic , Ksenija Kanjer , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Breast cancer is one of the most common and dangerous cancers in women, while it can also afflict men. Breast cancer treatment and detection are greatly aided by the use of histopathological images since they contain sufficient phenotypic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-12 Md Ishtyaq Mahmud , Muntasir Mamun , Ahmed Abdelgawad

In recent years, the scientific community has focused on the development of CAD tools that could improve bone fractures' classification, mostly based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). However, the discerning accuracy of fractures'…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Leonardo Tanzi , Andrea Audisio , Giansalvo Cirrincione , Alessandro Aprato , Enrico Vezzetti

Transformer-based architectures have revolutionized the landscape of deep learning. In computer vision domain, Vision Transformer demonstrates remarkable performance on par with or even surpassing that of convolutional neural networks.…

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