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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

Pulmonary pathologies are a significant global health concern, often leading to fatal outcomes if not diagnosed and treated promptly. Chest radiography serves as a primary diagnostic tool, but the availability of experienced radiologists…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Abdelbaki Souid , Mohamed Hamroun , Soufiene Ben Othman , Hedi Sakli , Naceur Abdelkarim

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Early diagnosis of pulmonary nodules in Computed Tomography (CT) chest scans provides an opportunity for designing effective treatment and making financial and care plans.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Raunak Dey , Zhongjie Lu , Yi Hong

Accurate assessment of Lung nodules is a time consuming and error prone ingredient of the radiologist interpretation work. Automating 3D volume detection and segmentation can improve workflow as well as patient care. Previous works have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-29 Evi Kopelowitz , Guy Engelhard

In this paper, we propose a novel framework with 3D convolutional networks (ConvNets) for automated detection of pulmonary nodules from low-dose CT scans, which is a challenging yet crucial task for lung cancer early diagnosis and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Qi Dou , Hao Chen , Yueming Jin , Huangjing Lin , Jing Qin , Pheng-Ann Heng

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Lung cancer screening (LCS) using annual low-dose computed tomography (CT) scanning has been proven to significantly reduce lung cancer mortality by detecting cancerous…

Lung cancer, particularly in its advanced stages, remains a leading cause of death globally. Though early detection via low-dose computed tomography (CT) is promising, the identification of high-risk factors crucial for surgical mode…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-29 Xiaotong Fu , Xiangyu Meng , Jing Zhou , Ying Ji

Lung cancer is the leading cause of mortality from cancer worldwide and has various histologic types, among which Lung Adenocarcinoma (LUAC) has recently been the most prevalent one. The current approach to determine the invasiveness of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Shahin Heidarian , Parnian Afshar , Anastasia Oikonomou , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Arash Mohammadi

This paper proposes a novel and efficient method to build a Computer-Aided Diagnoses (CAD) system for lung nodule detection based on Computed Tomography (CT). This task was treated as an Object Detection on Video (VID) problem by imitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Ning Li , Haopeng Liu , Bin Qiu , Wei Guo , Shijun Zhao , Kungang Li , Jie He

Accurate lung nodule detection for computed tomography (CT) scan imagery is challenging in real-world settings due to the sparse occurrence of nodules and similarity to other anatomical structures. In a typical positive case, nodules may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Hooman Ramezani , Dionne Aleman , Daniel Létourneau

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Jason Causey , Junyu Zhang , Shiqian Ma , Bo Jiang , Jake Qualls , David G. Politte , Fred Prior , Shuzhong Zhang , Xiuzhen Huang

Lung cancer stands as the preeminent cause of cancer-related mortality globally. Prompt and precise diagnosis, coupled with effective treatment, is imperative to reduce the fatality rates associated with this formidable disease. This study…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-29 Bitasadat Jamshidi , Nastaran Ghorbani , Mohsen Rostamy-Malkhalifeh

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

Early detection of pulmonary cancer is the most promising way to enhance a patient's chance for survival. Accurate pulmonary nodule detection in computed tomography (CT) images is a crucial step in diagnosing pulmonary cancer. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Jia Ding , Aoxue Li , Zhiqiang Hu , Liwei Wang

Lung cancer has the highest mortality rate of deadly cancers in the world. Early detection is essential to treatment of lung cancer. However, detection and accurate diagnosis of pulmonary nodules depend heavily on the experiences of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Chenglong Wang , Yun Liu , Fen Wang , Chengxiu Zhang , Yida Wang , Mei Yuan , Guang Yang

Lung Cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Early and automatic diagnosis of Solitary Pulmonary Nodules (SPN) in Computer Tomography (CT) chest scans can provide early treatment as well as doctor liberation from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Ioannis D. Apostolopoulos

The most deadly and life-threatening disease in the world is lung cancer. Though early diagnosis and accurate treatment are necessary for lowering the lung cancer mortality rate. A computerized tomography (CT) scan-based image is one of the…

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

Early diagnosis of lung cancer is a key intervention for the treatment of lung cancer computer aided diagnosis (CAD) can play a crucial role. However, most published CAD methods treat lung cancer diagnosis as a lung nodule classification…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-12 Junhua Chen , Haiyan Zeng , Chong Zhang , Zhenwei Shi , Andre Dekker , Leonard Wee , Inigo Bermejo

Purpose: The lung nodules localization in CT scan images is the most difficult task due to the complexity of the arbitrariness of shape, size, and texture of lung nodules. This is a challenge to be faced when coming to developing different…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-06 Haytham Al Ewaidat , Youness El Brag

Advances in healthcare research have significantly enhanced our understanding of disease mechanisms, diagnostic precision, and therapeutic options. Yet, lung cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Sugandha Saxena , S. N. Prasad , Ashwin M Polnaya , Shweta Agarwala