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We propose a deep learning based method for classification of commonly occurring pathologies in chest X-ray images. The vast number of publicly available chest X-ray images provides the data necessary for successfully employing deep…

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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…

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Pulmonary cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed and fatal cancers and is often diagnosed by incidental findings on computed tomography. Automated pulmonary nodule detection is an essential part of computer-aided diagnosis, which is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-26 Jiahua Xu , Philipp Ernst , Tung Lung Liu , Andreas Nürnberger

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) require a large amount of annotated data to learn from, which is often difficult to obtain in the medical domain. In this paper we show that the sample complexity of CNNs can be significantly improved by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Marysia Winkels , Taco S. Cohen

Chest X-ray is the most common test among medical imaging modalities. It is applied for detection and differentiation of, among others, lung cancer, tuberculosis, and pneumonia, the last with importance due to the COVID-19 disease.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-24 Gusztáv Gaál , Balázs Maga , András Lukács

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…

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Lung and colon cancers are predominant contributors to cancer mortality. Early and accurate diagnosis is crucial for effective treatment. By utilizing imaging technology in different image detection, learning models have shown promise in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Diponkor Bala , S M Rakib Ul Karim , Rownak Ara Rasul

Accurate classification of lung diseases from chest CT scans plays an important role in computer-aided diagnosis systems. However, medical imaging datasets often suffer from severe class imbalance, which may significantly degrade the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Kejin Lu , Jianfa Bai , Qingqiu Li , Runtian Yuan , Jilan Xu , Junlin Hou , Yuejie Zhang , Rui Feng

Lung cancer is one of the deadliest diseases and the leading cause of illness and death. Since lung cancer cannot predicted at premature stage, it able to only be discovered more broadly once it has spread to other lung parts. The risk…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-07 V S Priya Sumitha , V. Keerthika , A. Geetha

Lung nodule malignancy prediction has been enhanced by advanced deep-learning techniques and effective tricks. Nevertheless, current methods are mainly trained with cross-entropy loss using one-hot categorical labels, which results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Yiming Lei , Zilong Li , Yan Shen , Junping Zhang , Hongming Shan

Computed tomography (CT) generates a stack of cross-sectional images covering a region of the body. The visual assessment of these images for the identification of potential abnormalities is a challenging and time consuming task due to the…

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In this paper, we examine the strength of deep learning technique for diagnosing lung cancer on medical image analysis problem. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) models become popular among the pattern recognition and computer vision…

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Lung nodules can be an alarming precursor to potential lung cancer. Missed nodule detections during chest radiograph analysis remains a common challenge among thoracic radiologists. In this work, we present a multi-task lung nodule…

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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.…

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Early detection of lung cancer is critical to improving survival outcomes. We present a deep learning framework for automated lung cancer screening from chest computed tomography (CT) images with integrated explainability. Using the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Nishan Rai , Sujan Khatri , Devendra Risal

Lung nodule malignancy prediction is an essential step in the early diagnosis of lung cancer. Besides the difficulties commonly discussed, the challenges of this task also come from the ambiguous labels provided by annotators, since deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-26 Zehui Liao , Yutong Xie , Shishuai Hu , Yong Xia

We present a deep learning framework for computer-aided lung cancer diagnosis. Our multi-stage framework detects nodules in 3D lung CAT scans, determines if each nodule is malignant, and finally assigns a cancer probability based on these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Kingsley Kuan , Mathieu Ravaut , Gaurav Manek , Huiling Chen , Jie Lin , Babar Nazir , Cen Chen , Tse Chiang Howe , Zeng Zeng , Vijay Chandrasekhar

Pulmonary nodules are an early sign of lung cancer, and detecting them early is vital for improving patient survival rates. Most current methods use only single Computed Tomography (CT) images to assess nodule malignancy. However, doctors…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-29 Yin Shen , Zhaojie Fang , Ke Zhuang , Guanyu Zhou , Xiao Yu , Yucheng Zhao , Yuan Tian , Ruiquan Ge , Changmiao Wang , Xiaopeng Fan , Ahmed Elazab

In this paper we discuss lung cancer detection using hybrid model of Convolutional-Neural-Networks (CNNs) and Support-Vector-Machines-(SVMs) in order to gain early detection of tumors, benign or malignant. The work uses this hybrid model by…

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