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The CyberKnife system is a robotic radiosurgery platform that allows the delivery of lung SBRT treatments using fiducial-free soft-tissue tracking. However, not all lung cancer patients are eligible for lung tumor tracking. Tumor size,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-08-24 Matthieu Lafrenière , Gilmer Valdes , Martina Descovich

The advent of large scale, high-throughput genomic screening has introduced a wide range of tests for diagnostic purposes. Prominent among them are tests using miRNA expression levels. Genomics and proteomics now provide expression levels…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-08 Neerja Garikipati

Lung cancer is a devastating disease with the highest mortality rate among cancer types. Over 60% of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, which accounts for 87% of diagnoses, require radiation therapy. Rapid treatment initiation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-02 Hamed Hooshangnejad , Xue Feng , Gaofeng Huang , Rui Zhang , Katelyn Kelly , Quan Chen , Kai Ding

Lung diseases are a leading cause of child mortality in the developing world, with India accounting for approximately half of global pneumonia deaths (370,000) in 2016. Timely diagnosis is crucial for reducing mortality rates. This paper…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-13 Mihir Jain

Due to its predominantly asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic progression, lung cancer is often diagnosed in advanced stages, resulting in poorer survival rates for patients. As with other cancers, early detection significantly improves the…

Early detection is crucial for successful cancer treatment and increasing survivability rates, particularly in the most common forms. Ten different cancers have been identified in most of these advances that effectively use CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hossein Molaeian , Kaveh Karamjani , Sina Teimouri , Saeed Roshani , Sobhan Roshani

Background: Conventional prediction methods such as logistic regression and gradient boosting have been widely utilized for disease onset prediction for their reliability and interpretability. Deep learning methods promise enhanced…

The nature of clinical data makes it difficult to quickly select, tune and apply machine learning algorithms to clinical prognosis. As a result, a lot of time is spent searching for the most appropriate machine learning algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Kwetishe Joro Danjuma

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

Vision transformer-based methods are advancing the field of medical artificial intelligence and cancer imaging, including lung cancer applications. Recently, many researchers have developed vision transformer-based AI methods for lung…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-07 Hazrat Ali , Farida Mohsen , Zubair Shah

Lung diseases, including lung cancer and COPD, are significant health concerns globally. Traditional diagnostic methods can be costly, time-consuming, and invasive. This study investigates the use of semi supervised learning methods for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Xiaoran Xu , In-Ho Ra , Ravi Sankar

Lung disease poses a substantial global health challenge, with pneumonia being a prevalent concern. This research focuses on leveraging deep learning techniques to detect and assess pneumonia, addressing two interconnected objectives.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 S Kumar Reddy Mallidi

Cancer is one of the most dangerous diseases to humans, and yet no permanent cure has been developed for it. Breast cancer is one of the most common cancer types. According to the National Breast Cancer foundation, in 2020 alone, more than…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-10 Ali Bou Nassif , Manar Abu Talib , Qassim Nasir , Yaman Afadar , Omar Elgendy

Annual low dose computed tomography (CT) lung screening is currently advised for individuals at high risk of lung cancer (e.g., heavy smokers between 55 and 80 years old). The recommended screening practice significantly reduces all-cause…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Riqiang Gao , Lingfeng Li , Yucheng Tang , Sanja L. Antic , Alexis B. Paulson , Yuankai Huo , Kim L. Sandler , Pierre P. Massion , Bennett A. Landman

Cancer is a term that denotes a group of diseases caused by abnormal growth of cells that can spread in different parts of the body. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cancer is the second major cause of death after…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Fadi Alharbi , Aleksandar Vakanski

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

This study evaluates publicly available deep-learning based lung segmentation models in transplant-eligible patients to determine their performance across disease severity levels, pathology categories, and lung sides, and to identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Jisoo Lee , Michael R. Harowicz , Yuwen Chen , Hanxue Gu , Isaac S. Alderete , Lin Li , Maciej A. Mazurowski , Matthew G. Hartwig

Risk stratification (characterization) of tumors from radiology images can be more accurate and faster with computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) tools. Tumor characterization through such tools can also enable non-invasive cancer staging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Sarfaraz Hussein , Pujan Kandel , Candice W. Bolan , Michael B. Wallace , Ulas Bagci

At present, the incidence and fatality rate of lung cancer in China rank first among all malignant tumors. Despite the continuous development and improvement of China's medical level, the overall 5-year survival rate of lung cancer patients…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Shulin Li , Liqiang Yu , Bo Liu , Qunwei Lin , Jiaxin Huang

Recent studies have shown that lung cancer screening using annual low-dose computed tomography (CT) reduces lung cancer mortality by 20% compared to traditional chest radiography. Therefore, CT lung screening has started to be used widely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Gorkem Polat , Yesim Dogrusoz Serinagaoglu , Ugur Halici