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Background and objective: The usage of machine learning in medical diagnosis and treatment has witnessed significant growth in recent years through the development of computer-aided diagnosis systems that are often relying on annotated…

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The scarcity of publicly available medical imaging data limits the development of effective AI models. This work proposes a memory-efficient patch-wise denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) for generating synthetic medical images,…

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AI in Medical Imaging project aims to enhance the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Image Data Commons (IDC) by developing nnU-Net models and providing AI-assisted segmentations for cancer radiology images. We created high-quality,…

Early diagnosis of lung cancer via computed tomography can significantly reduce the morbidity and mortality rates associated with the pathology. However, search lung nodules is a high complexity task, which affects the success of screening…

Paucity of medical data severely limits the generalizability of diagnostic ML models, as the full spectrum of disease variability can not be represented by a small clinical dataset. To address this, diffusion models (DMs) have been…

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Lung cancer, a leading cause of cancer-related deaths globally, emphasises the importance of early detection for better patient outcomes. Pulmonary nodules, often early indicators of lung cancer, necessitate accurate, timely diagnosis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jiahao Lu , Chong Yin , Silvia Ingala , Kenny Erleben , Michael Bachmann Nielsen , Sune Darkner

Accurate quantification of the extent of lung pathological patterns (fibrosis, ground-glass opacity, emphysema, consolidation) is prerequisite for diagnosis and follow-up of interstitial lung diseases. However, segmentation is challenging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Rezkellah Noureddine Khiati , Pierre-Yves Brillet , Radu Ispas , Catalin Fetita

Medical image segmentation models struggle with rare abnormalities due to scarce annotated pathological data. We propose DiffAug a novel framework that combines textguided diffusion-based generation with automatic segmentation validation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Maham Nazir , Muhammad Aqeel , Francesco Setti

Diagnosing rare diseases presents a common challenge in clinical practice, necessitating the expertise of specialists for accurate identification. The advent of machine learning offers a promising solution, while the development of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yifan Wu , Yang Liu , Yue Yang , Michael S. Yao , Wenli Yang , Xuehui Shi , Lihong Yang , Dongjun Li , Yueming Liu , James C. Gee , Xuan Yang , Wenbin Wei , Shi Gu

The lack of transparency of data-driven Artificial Intelligence techniques limits their interpretability and acceptance into healthcare decision-making processes. We propose an attribution-based approach to improve the interpretability of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Alessandro Umbrico , Guido Bologna , Luca Coraci , Francesca Fracasso , Silvia Gola , Gabriella Cortellessa

Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) assisted lung nodule detection systems are increasingly deployed in clinical settings without site-specific validation. Performance reported under benchmark conditions may not reflect real-world…

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Lung cancer ranks as one of the leading causes of cancer diagnosis and is the foremost cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. The early detection of lung nodules plays a pivotal role in improving outcomes for patients, as it enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jiasen Zhang , Mingrui Yang , Weihong Guo , Brian A. Xavier , Michael Bolen , Xiaojuan Li

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

Lung cancer has been one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide for years. With the emergence of deep learning, computer-assisted diagnosis (CAD) models based on learning algorithms can accelerate the nodule screening…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-03 Xuan Zhao , Benjamin Hou

Integrating deep learning with clinical expertise holds great potential for addressing healthcare challenges and empowering medical professionals with improved diagnostic tools. However, the need for annotated medical images is often an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Romain Hardy , Joe Klepich , Ryan Mitchell , Steve Hall , Jericho Villareal , Cornelia Ilin

Deep learning has driven significant advances in medical image analysis, yet its adoption in clinical practice remains constrained by the large size and lack of transparency in modern models. Advances in interpretability techniques such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Nikita Malik , Pratinav Seth , Neeraj Kumar Singh , Chintan Chitroda , Vinay Kumar Sankarapu

Semantic segmentation of medical images is pivotal in applications like disease diagnosis and treatment planning. While deep learning has excelled in automating this task, a major hurdle is the need for numerous annotated segmentation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-02 Li Zhang , Basu Jindal , Ahmed Alaa , Robert Weinreb , David Wilson , Eran Segal , James Zou , Pengtao Xie

Machine learning approaches hold great potential for the automated detection of lung nodules in chest radiographs, but training the algorithms requires vary large amounts of manually annotated images, which are difficult to obtain. Weak…

Evaluation of artificial intelligence (AI) models for low-dose CT lung cancer screening is limited by heterogeneous datasets, annotation standards, and evaluation protocols, making performance difficult to compare and translate across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Fakrul Islam Tushar , Avivah Wang , Lavsen Dahal , Ehsan Samei , Michael R. Harowicz , Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer , Kyle J. Lafata , Tina D. Tailor , Cynthia Rudin , Joseph Y. Lo

Accurately predicting immunotherapy response in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) remains a critical unmet need. Existing radiomics and deep learning-based predictive models rely primarily on pre-treatment imaging to predict categorical…

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