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Lung cancer remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, making early diagnosis critical for improving therapeutic outcomes and patient prognosis. Computer-aided diagnosis systems, which analyze computed…

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Objective: Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, primarily due to delayed diagnosis and poor early detection. This study aims to develop a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system that leverages large…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Hafza Eman , Furqan Shaukat , Muhammad Hamza Zafar , Syed Muhammad Anwar

Feature-based self-explanatory methods explain their classification in terms of human-understandable features. In the medical imaging community, this semantic matching of clinical knowledge adds significantly to the trustworthiness of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Jiahao Lu , Chong Yin , Oswin Krause , Kenny Erleben , Michael Bachmann Nielsen , Sune Darkner

Lung cancer is one of the prevalence diseases in the world which cause many deaths. Detecting early stages of lung cancer is so necessary. So, modeling and simulating some intelligent medical systems is an essential which can help…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 Ehsan Sadeghi Pour , Mahdi Esmaeili

Risk stratification of lung nodules is a task of primary importance in lung cancer diagnosis. Any improvement in robust and accurate nodule characterization can assist in identifying cancer stage, prognosis, and improving treatment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Sarfaraz Hussein , Kunlin Cao , Qi Song , Ulas Bagci

Importance: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality in the US, responsible for more deaths than breast, prostate, colon and pancreas cancer combined and it has been recently demonstrated that low-dose computed tomography (CT)…

Purpose: Lung nodules have very diverse shapes and sizes, which makes classifying them as benign/malignant a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a novel method to predict the malignancy of nodules that have the capability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Mundher Al-Shabi , Boon Leong Lan , Wai Yee Chan , Kwan-Hoong Ng , Maxine Tan

Nodule malignancy assessment is a complex, time-consuming and error-prone task. Current clinical practice requires measuring changes in size and density of the nodule at different time-points. State of the art solutions rely on 3D…

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With the advanced imaging technology, digital pathology imaging of tumor tissue slides is becoming a routine clinical procedure for cancer diagnosis. This process produces massive imaging data that capture histological details in high…

Applications · Statistics 2020-12-10 Esteban Fernández Morales , Cong Zhang , Guanghua Xiao , Chul Moon , Qiwei Li

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and morbidity worldwide. Many studies have shown machine learning models to be effective at detecting lung nodules from chest X-ray images. However, these techniques have yet to be embraced…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Michael J. Horry , Subrata Chakraborty , Biswajeet Pradhan , Manoranjan Paul , Douglas P. S. Gomes , Anwaar Ul-Haq

Early detection of lung cancer is essential in reducing mortality. Recent studies have demonstrated the clinical utility of low-dose computed tomography (CT) to detect lung cancer among individuals selected based on very limited clinical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Jiachen Wang , Riqiang Gao , Yuankai Huo , Shunxing Bao , Yunxi Xiong , Sanja L. Antic , Travis J. Osterman , Pierre P. Massion , Bennett A. Landman

Lung cancer has been one of the major threats to human life for decades. Computer-aided diagnosis can help with early lung nodul detection and facilitate subsequent nodule characterization. Large Visual Language models (VLMs) have been…

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Causal discovery is becoming a key part in medical AI research. These methods can enhance healthcare by identifying causal links between biomarkers, demographics, treatments and outcomes. They can aid medical professionals in choosing more…

Deep learning has shown remarkable results for image analysis and is expected to aid individual treatment decisions in health care. To achieve this, deep learning methods need to be promoted from the level of mere associations to being able…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Wouter A. C. van Amsterdam , Marinus J. C. Eijkemans

Recently, Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems have emerged as indispensable tools in clinical diagnostic workflows, significantly alleviating the burden on radiologists. Nevertheless, despite their integration into clinical settings, CAD…

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Medical imaging is a critical initial tool used by clinicians to determine a patient's cancer diagnosis, allowing for faster intervention and more reliable patient prognosis. At subsequent stages of patient diagnosis, genetic information is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Rahul Mehta

Machine learning methods with quantitative imaging features integration have recently gained a lot of attention for lung nodule classification. However, there is a dearth of studies in the literature on effective features ranking methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-17 Hina Shakir , Haroon Rasheed , Tariq Mairaj Rasool Khan

Lung cancer is a very deadly disease worldwide, and its early diagnosis is crucial for increasing patient survival rates. Computed tomography (CT) scans are widely used for lung cancer diagnosis as they can give detailed lung structures.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Md Rashidul Islam , Bakary Gibba , Altagi Abdallah Bakheit Abdelgadir

The deployment of vision-language models (VLMs) in dermatology is hindered by the trilemma of high computational costs, extreme data scarcity, and the black-box nature of deep learning. To address these challenges, we present SkinCLIP-VL, a…

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Automated detection and segmentation of pulmonary nodules on lung computed tomography (CT) scans can facilitate early lung cancer diagnosis. Existing supervised approaches for automated nodule segmentation on CT scans require voxel-based…

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