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Survival risk stratification is an important step in clinical decision making for breast cancer management. We propose a novel deep learning approach for this purpose by integrating histopathological imaging, genetic and clinical data. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Raktim Kumar Mondol , Ewan K. A. Millar , Arcot Sowmya , Erik Meijering

This work presents a novel breast cancer imaging approach that uses compressive sensing in a hybrid Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) / Nearfield Radar Imaging (NRI) system configuration. The non-homogeneous tissue distribution of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-22 Richard Obermeier , Jose Angel Martinez Lorenzo

Breast cancer diagnosis demands rapid and precise tools, yet traditional histopathological methods often fall short in intra-operative settings. Deep Ultraviolet (DUV) fluorescence imaging emerges as a transformative approach, offering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nagur Shareef Shaik , Teja Krishna Cherukuri , Dong Hye Ye

Objective: Transformers, born to remedy the inadequate receptive fields of CNNs, have drawn explosive attention recently. However, the daunting computational complexity of global representation learning, together with rigid window…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Xian Lin , Li Yu , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Zengqiang Yan

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

Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) is a widely used medical imaging modality for breast cancer screening and diagnosis, offering higher spatial resolution and greater detail through its 3D-like breast volume imaging capability. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Yuexi Du , Regina J. Hooley , John Lewin , Nicha C. Dvornek

Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) provides an insight into the fine details of normal fibroglandular tissues and abnormal lesions by reconstructing a pseudo-3D image of the breast. In this respect, DBT overcomes a major limitation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-07-24 Guang Yang , John H. Hipwell , David J. Hawkes , Simon R. Arridge

Medical image analysis is a hot research topic because of its usefulness in different clinical applications, such as early disease diagnosis and treatment. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become the de-facto standard in medical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Smriti Regmi , Aliza Subedi , Ulas Bagci , Debesh Jha

Recently, the vision transformer (ViT) has made breakthroughs in image recognition. Its self-attention mechanism (MSA) can extract discriminative labeling information of different pixel blocks to improve image classification accuracy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Chao Hu , Liqiang Zhu , Weibin Qiu , Weijie Wu

Hispathological image segmentation algorithms play a critical role in computer aided diagnosis technology. The development of weakly supervised segmentation algorithm alleviates the problem of medical image annotation that it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Ziniu Qian , Kailu Li , Maode Lai , Eric I-Chao Chang , Bingzheng Wei , Yubo Fan , Yan Xu

There still remains an extreme performance gap between Vision Transformers (ViTs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) when training from scratch on small datasets, which is concluded to the lack of inductive bias. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Zhiying Lu , Hongtao Xie , Chuanbin Liu , Yongdong Zhang

Recent advancements in medical image analysis have predominantly relied on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), achieving impressive performance in chest X-ray classification tasks, such as the 92% AUC reported by AutoThorax-Net and the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Baljinnyam Dayan

In the field of deep learning, large architectures often obtain the best performance for many tasks, but also require massive datasets. In the histological domain, tissue images are expensive to obtain and constitute sensitive medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Andrei-Alexandru Preda , Iulian-Marius Tăiatu , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel

Histopathologic Images (HI) are the gold standard for evaluation of some tumors. However, the analysis of such images is challenging even for experienced pathologists, resulting in problems of inter and intra observer. Besides that, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Jonathan de Matos , Alceu de Souza Britto , Luiz E. S. Oliveira , Alessandro L. Koerich

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 cancer is a prevalent form of cancer among women, with over 1.5 million women being diagnosed each year. Unfortunately, the survival rates for breast cancer patients in certain third-world countries, like South Africa, are alarmingly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Brennon Maistry , Absalom E. Ezugwu

Accurate identification of breast cancer types plays a critical role in guiding treatment decisions and improving patient outcomes. This paper presents an artificial intelligence enabled tool designed to aid in the identification of breast…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Neil Chaudhary , Zaynah Dhunny

Medical images exhibit latent anatomical groupings, such as organs, tissues, and pathological regions, that standard Vision Transformers (ViTs) fail to exploit. While recent work like SBM-Transformer attempts to incorporate such structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Huimin Cheng , Xiaowei Yu , Shushan Wu , Luyang Fang , Chao Cao , Jing Zhang , Tianming Liu , Dajiang Zhu , Wenxuan Zhong , Ping Ma

According to some medical imaging techniques, breast histopathology images called Hematoxylin and Eosin are considered as the gold standard for cancer diagnoses. Based on the idea of dividing the pathologic image (WSI) into multiple…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-13 Tat-Bao-Thien Nguyen , Minh-Vuong Ngo , Van-Phong Nguyen

Breast cancer classification stands as a pivotal pillar in ensuring timely diagnosis and effective treatment. This study with histopathological images underscores the profound significance of harnessing the synergistic capabilities of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Sambit Mallick , Snigdha Paul , Anindya Sen