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Mammography, an X-ray-based imaging technique, remains central to the early detection of breast cancer. Recent advances in artificial intelligence have enabled increasingly sophisticated computer-aided diagnostic methods, evolving from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-09 Daniel G. P. Petrini , Hae Yong Kim

Breast cancer detection through mammography interpretation remains difficult because of the minimal nature of abnormalities that experts need to identify alongside the variable interpretations between readers. The potential of CNNs for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Ojonugwa Oluwafemi Ejiga Peter , Daniel Emakporuena , Bamidele Dayo Tunde , Maryam Abdulkarim , Abdullahi Bn Umar

This paper presents a tumor detection algorithm from mammogram. The proposed system focuses on the solution of two problems. One is how to detect tumors as suspicious regions with a very weak contrast to their background and another is how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-12-14 Y. Ireaneus Anna Rejani , S. Thamarai Selvi

Accurate detection of breast cancer from high-resolution mammograms is crucial for early diagnosis and effective treatment planning. Previous studies have shown the potential of using single-view mammograms for breast cancer detection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Han Chen , Anne L. Martel

Tumor shape is a key factor that affects tumor growth and metastasis. This paper proposes a topological feature computed by persistent homology to characterize tumor progression from digital pathology and radiology images and examines its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Chul Moon , Qiwei Li , Guanghua Xiao

We use Topological Data Analysis tools for studying the inner organization of cells in segmented images of epithelial tissues. More specifically, for each segmented image, we compute different persistence barcodes, which codify lifetime of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 N. Atienza , M. J. Jimenez , M. Soriano-Trigueros

Breast cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women worldwide, with mammography screening as the most effective method for the early detection. Ensuring proper positioning in mammography is critical, as poor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Toygar Tanyel , Nurper Denizoglu , Mustafa Ege Seker , Deniz Alis , Esma Cerekci , Ercan Karaarslan , Erkin Aribal , Ilkay Oksuz

Breast cancer remains a global challenge, causing over 1 million deaths globally in 2018. To achieve earlier breast cancer detection, screening x-ray mammography is recommended by health organizations worldwide and has been estimated to…

Breast cancer is considered as the most fatal type of cancer among women worldwide and it is crucially important to be diagnosed at its early stages. In the current study, we aim to represent a fast and efficient framework which consists of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Parvin Yousefikamal

Breast density estimation is one of the key tasks in recognizing individuals predisposed to breast cancer. It is often challenging because of low contrast and fluctuations in mammograms' fatty tissue background. Most of the time, the breast…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Vikash Gupta , Mutlu Demirer , Robert W. Maxwell , Richard D. White , Barbaros Selnur Erdal

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of mortality in women. Early detection and treatment are imperative for improving survival rates, which have steadily increased in recent years as a result of more sophisticated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Sulaiman Vesal , Nishant Ravikumar , AmirAbbas Davari , Stephan Ellmann , Andreas Maier

Breast cancer is the malignant tumor that causes the highest number of cancer deaths in females. Digital mammograms (DM or 2D mammogram) and digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT or 3D mammogram) are the two types of mammography imagery that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Gongbo Liang , Xiaoqin Wang , Yu Zhang , Xin Xing , Hunter Blanton , Tawfiq Salem , Nathan Jacobs

Vision Transformers $(\texttt{ViT})$ have become the architecture of choice for many computer vision tasks, yet their performance in computer-aided diagnostics remains limited. Focusing on breast cancer detection from mammograms, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Samyak Sanghvi , Piyush Miglani , Sarvesh Shashikumar , Kaustubh R Borgavi , Veenu Singla , Chetan Arora

Breast cancer is the most commonly occurring cancer worldwide. This cancer caused 670,000 deaths globally in 2022, as reported by the WHO. Yet since health officials began routine mammography screening in age groups deemed at risk in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Mahmudul Hasan

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in women globally. Mammography is essential for the early detection and diagnosis of breast lesions. Despite recent progress in foundation…

Breast cancer is one of the most major causes of death among women, after lung cancer. Breast cancer detection advancements can increase the survival rate of patients through earlier detection. Breast cancer that can be detected by using…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Kashif Ishaq , Muhammad Mustagis

Mammographic breast density classification is essential for cancer risk assessment but remains challenging due to subjective interpretation and inter-observer variability. This study compares multimodal and CNN-based methods for automated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-18 Yusdivia Molina-Román , David Gómez-Ortiz , Ernestina Menasalvas-Ruiz , José Gerardo Tamez-Peña , Alejandro Santos-Díaz

Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and leading cause of cancer-related death among females worldwide. In this article, we investigate the applicability of densely connected convolutional neural networks to the problems of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Matthias Kohl , Christoph Walz , Florian Ludwig , Stefan Braunewell , Maximilian Baust

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have had a huge success in many areas of computer vision and medical image analysis. However, there is still an immense potential for performance improvement in mammogram breast cancer detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Yeman Brhane Hagos , Albert Gubern Merida , Jonas Teuwen

This work is motivated by multimodality breast cancer imaging data, which is quite challenging in that the signals of discrete tumor-associated microvesicles (TMVs) are randomly distributed with heterogeneous patterns. This imposes a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-22 Xiwei Tang , Xuan Bi , Annie Qu