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Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. Early-stage diagnosis of breast cancer can significantly improve the efficiency of treatment. Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems are widely adopted in this issue due to…

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Medical image segmentation plays a pivotal role in disease diagnosis and treatment planning, particularly in resource-constrained clinical settings where lightweight and generalizable models are urgently needed. However, existing…

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Breast cancer (BC) significantly contributes to cancer-related mortality in women, underscoring the criticality of early detection for optimal patient outcomes. A mammography is a key tool for identifying and diagnosing breast…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Muhammad Yaqub , Feng Jinchao

In the last two decades Computer Aided Diagnostics (CAD) systems were developed to help radiologists analyze screening mammograms. The benefits of current CAD technologies appear to be contradictory and they should be improved to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Dezső Ribli , Anna Horváth , Zsuzsa Unger , Péter Pollner , István Csabai

Mammography is crucial for breast cancer surveillance and early diagnosis. However, analyzing mammography images is a demanding task for radiologists, who often review hundreds of mammograms daily, leading to overdiagnosis and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Kun Zhao , Jakub Prokop , Javier Montalt Tordera , Sadegh Mohammadi

Accurate segmentation of brain tumors plays a key role in the diagnosis and treatment of brain tumor diseases. It serves as a critical technology for quantifying tumors and extracting their features. With the increasing application of deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Longfeng Shen , Yanqi Hou , Jiacong Chen , Liangjin Diao , Yaxi Duan

Accurate segmentation of wounds and scale markers in clinical images remainsa significant challenge, crucial for effective wound management and automatedassessment. In this study, we propose a novel dual-attention U-Net++ archi-tecture,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-14 Daniel Cieślak , Miriam Reca , Olena Onyshchenko , Jacek Rumiński

Some recent studies have described deep convolutional neural networks to diagnose breast cancer in mammograms with similar or even superior performance to that of human experts. One of the best techniques does two transfer learnings: the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Daniel G. P. Petrini , Carlos Shimizu , Rosimeire A. Roela , Gabriel V. Valente , Maria A. A. K. Folgueira , Hae Yong Kim

Incorporating various mass shapes and sizes in training deep learning architectures has made breast mass segmentation challenging. Moreover, manual segmentation of masses of irregular shapes is time-consuming and error-prone. Though Deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-17 Sharif Amit Kamran , Khondker Fariha Hossain , Alireza Tavakkoli , George Bebis , Sal Baker

Breast cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed malignancy among women in the developed world. Early detection through mammography screening plays a pivotal role in reducing mortality rates. While computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Shunjie-Fabian Zheng , Hyeonjun Lee , Thijs Kooi , Ali Diba

Breast cancer is a leading cause of death among women worldwide, emphasizing the need for early detection and accurate diagnosis. As such Ultrasound Imaging, a reliable and cost-effective tool, is used for this purpose, however the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Eyad Gad , Mustafa Abou Khatwa , Mustafa A. Elattar , Sahar Selim

Breast cancer ranks as the most prevalent form of cancer diagnosed in women, and diagnosis faces several challenges, a change in the size, shape and appearance of breasts, dense breast tissue, lumps or thickening in the breast especially if…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Abdulqader Mohammed , Mohammed Abdel Razek , Mohamed El-dosuky , Ahmed Sobhi

Accurate breast lesion risk estimation can significantly reduce unnecessary biopsies and help doctors decide optimal treatment plans. Most existing computer-aided systems rely solely on mammogram features to classify breast lesions. While…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Hung Q. Vo , Pengyu Yuan , Tiancheng He , Stephen T. C. Wong , Hien V. Nguyen

Deep learning techniques, particularly convolutional neural networks, have shown great potential in computer vision and medical imaging applications. However, deep learning models are computationally demanding as they require enormous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Owais Ali , Hazrat Ali , Syed Ayaz Ali Shah , Aamir Shahzad

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death after lung cancer in women. Early detection of breast cancer in X-ray mammography is believed to have effectively reduced the mortality rate. However, a relatively high false…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Xuejiao Tang , Liuhua Zhang , Wenbin Zhang , Xin Huang , Vasileios Iosifidis , Zhen Liu , Mingli Zhang , Enza Messina , Ji Zhang

Breast cancer is the most common invasive cancer with the highest cancer occurrence in females. Handheld ultrasound is one of the most efficient ways to identify and diagnose the breast cancer. The area and the shape information of a lesion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jie Xing , Zheren Li , Biyuan Wang , Yuji Qi , Bingbin Yu , Farhad G. Zanjani , Aiwen Zheng , Remco Duits , Tao Tan

This study evaluates the effectiveness of deep learning models in classifying histopathological images for early and accurate detection of breast cancer. Eight advanced models, including ResNet-50, DenseNet-121, ResNeXt-50, Vision…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-09 Sania Eskandari , Ali Eslamian , Nusrat Munia , Amjad Alqarni , Qiang Cheng

To address the issues of limited samples, time-consuming feature design, and low accuracy in detection and classification of breast cancer pathological images, a breast cancer image classification model algorithm combining deep learning and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Weimin Wang , Yufeng Li , Xu Yan , Mingxuan Xiao , Min Gao

Detection of malignant lesions on mammography images is extremely important for early breast cancer diagnosis. In clinical practice, images are acquired from two different angles, and radiologists can fully utilize information from both…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Arina Varlamova , Valery Belotsky , Grigory Novikov , Anton Konushin , Evgeny Sidorov

This study presents a deep learning system for breast cancer detection in mammography, developed using a modified EfficientNetV2 architecture with enhanced attention mechanisms. The model was trained on mammograms from a major Thai medical…