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Cancer is one of the most dangerous diseases to humans, and yet no permanent cure has been developed for it. Breast cancer is one of the most common cancer types. According to the National Breast Cancer foundation, in 2020 alone, more than…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-10 Ali Bou Nassif , Manar Abu Talib , Qassim Nasir , Yaman Afadar , Omar Elgendy

Medical imaging is an essential tool in many areas of medical applications, used for both diagnosis and treatment. However, reading medical images and making diagnosis or treatment recommendations require specially trained medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Wentao Zhu

Screening mammography is an important front-line tool for the early detection of breast cancer, and some 39 million exams are conducted each year in the United States alone. Here, we describe a multi-scale convolutional neural network (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-24 William Lotter , Greg Sorensen , David Cox

Breast cancer is one of the most threatening diseases in women's life; thus, the early and accurate diagnosis plays a key role in reducing the risk of death in a patient's life. Mammography stands as the reference technique for breast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Juan Zuluaga-Gomez

Although digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) improves diagnostic performance over full-field digital mammography (FFDM), false-positive recalls remain a concern in breast cancer screening. We developed a multi-modal artificial intelligence…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-14 Jungkyu Park , Jan Witowski , Yanqi Xu , Hari Trivedi , Judy Gichoya , Beatrice Brown-Mulry , Malte Westerhoff , Linda Moy , Laura Heacock , Alana Lewin , Krzysztof J. Geras

Breast cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed malignancy among women in the developed world. Early detection through mammography screening plays a pivotal role in reducing mortality rates. While computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Shunjie-Fabian Zheng , Hyeonjun Lee , Thijs Kooi , Ali Diba

Breast cancer is among the most deadly diseases, distressing mostly women worldwide. Although traditional methods for detection have presented themselves as valid for the task, they still commonly present low accuracies and demand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Leandro Aparecido Passos , Danilo Samuel Jodas , Luiz C. F. Ribeiro , Thierry Pinheiro , João P. Papa

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

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death among women worldwide. We introduce Mammo-FM, the first foundation model specifically for mammography, pretrained on the largest and most diverse dataset to date - 140,677 patients…

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 common invasive cancer in women, and the second main cause of death. Breast cancer screening is an efficient method to detect indeterminate breast lesions early. The common approaches of screening for women are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Yuliana Jiménez Gaona , María José Rodriguez-Alvarez , Hector Espinó Morató , Darwin Castillo Malla , Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

Early detection of breast cancer through screening mammography yields a 20-35% increase in survival rate; however, there are not enough radiologists to serve the growing population of women seeking screening mammography. Although commercial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Stefano Pedemonte , Brent Mombourquette , Alexis Goh , Trevor Tsue , Aaron Long , Sadanand Singh , Thomas Paul Matthews , Meet Shah , Jason Su

Breast cancer is one of the most common and prevalent type of cancer that mainly affects the women population. chances of effective treatment increases with early diagnosis. Mammography is considered one of the effective and proven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Bilal Ahmed Lodhi

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of mortality among women worldwide. Early detection and risk assessment play a crucial role in improving survival rates. Therefore, annual or biennial mammograms are often recommended for screening…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-01 Batuhan K. Karaman , Katerina Dodelzon , Gozde B. Akar , Mert R. Sabuncu

The rapid development of deep learning, a family of machine learning techniques, has spurred much interest in its application to medical imaging problems. Here, we develop a deep learning algorithm that can accurately detect breast cancer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Li Shen , Laurie R. Margolies , Joseph H. Rothstein , Eugene Fluder , Russell B. McBride , Weiva Sieh

Breast density is an important risk factor for breast cancer that also affects the specificity and sensitivity of screening mammography. Current federal legislation mandates reporting of breast density for all women undergoing breast…

Nowadays, Breast cancer has risen to become one of the most prominent causes of death in recent years. Among all malignancies, this is the most frequent and the major cause of death for women globally. Manually diagnosing this disease…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Taminul Islam , Arindom Kundu , Nazmul Islam Khan , Choyon Chandra Bonik , Flora Akter , Md Jihadul Islam

Breast cancer is one of the leading fatal disease worldwide with high risk control if early discovered. Conventional method for breast screening is x-ray mammography, which is known to be challenging for early detection of cancer lesions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Essam A. Rashed , M. Samir Abou El Seoud

Due to the heavy burden on medical institutes and computer-aided image diagnostics (CAD) have been gaining importance in diagnostic medicine to aid the medical staff to attain better service for the patients. Breast cancer is a fatal…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-24 Musaddiq Al Ali , Amjad Y. Sahib , Muazez Al Ali

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