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Early detection of lung nodules is of great importance in lung cancer screening. Existing research recognizes the critical role played by CAD systems in early detection and diagnosis of lung nodules. However, many CAD systems, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Naji Khosravan , Ulas Bagci

Lung cancer has the highest mortality rate of deadly cancers in the world. Early detection is essential to treatment of lung cancer. However, detection and accurate diagnosis of pulmonary nodules depend heavily on the experiences of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Chenglong Wang , Yun Liu , Fen Wang , Chengxiu Zhang , Yida Wang , Mei Yuan , Guang Yang

In this paper, we propose a novel framework with 3D convolutional networks (ConvNets) for automated detection of pulmonary nodules from low-dose CT scans, which is a challenging yet crucial task for lung cancer early diagnosis and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Qi Dou , Hao Chen , Yueming Jin , Huangjing Lin , Jing Qin , Pheng-Ann Heng

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

Automatic diagnosing lung cancer from Computed Tomography (CT) scans involves two steps: detect all suspicious lesions (pulmonary nodules) and evaluate the whole-lung/pulmonary malignancy. Currently, there are many studies about the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Fangzhou Liao , Ming Liang , Zhe Li , Xiaolin Hu , Sen Song

Purpose: The lung nodules localization in CT scan images is the most difficult task due to the complexity of the arbitrariness of shape, size, and texture of lung nodules. This is a challenge to be faced when coming to developing different…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-06 Haytham Al Ewaidat , Youness El Brag

Automated detection and segmentation of pulmonary nodules on lung computed tomography (CT) scans can facilitate early lung cancer diagnosis. Existing supervised approaches for automated nodule segmentation on CT scans require voxel-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Xinyang Feng , Jie Yang , Andrew F. Laine , Elsa D. Angelini

Detection of pulmonary nodules on chest CT is an essential step in the early diagnosis of lung cancer, which is critical for best patient care. Although a number of computer-aided nodule detection methods have been published in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Junjie Zhang , Yong Xia , Yanning Zhang

We introduce a new computer aided detection and diagnosis system for lung cancer screening with low-dose CT scans that produces meaningful probability assessments. Our system is based entirely on 3D convolutional neural networks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Onur Ozdemir , Rebecca L. Russell , Andrew A. Berlin

Candidate generation, the first stage for most computer aided detection (CAD) systems, rapidly scans the entire image data for any possible abnormality locations, while the subsequent stages of the CAD system refine the candidates list to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-22 Sergei V. Fotin , David F. Yankelevitz , Claudia I. Henschke , Anthony P. Reeves

Pulmonary nodule detection using low-dose Computed Tomography (CT) is often the first step in lung disease screening and diagnosis. Recently, algorithms based on deep convolutional neural nets have shown great promise for automated nodule…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Hao Tang , Xingwei Liu , Xiaohui Xie

Objective: Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, primarily due to delayed diagnosis and poor early detection. This study aims to develop a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system that leverages large…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Hafza Eman , Furqan Shaukat , Muhammad Hamza Zafar , Syed Muhammad Anwar

Lung cancer remains one of the most common and deadliest forms of cancer worldwide. The likelihood of successful treatment depends strongly on the stage at which the disease is diagnosed. Therefore, early detection of lung cancer represents…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Volodymyr Sydorskyi

Background and Objective:Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems promote diagnosis effectiveness and alleviate pressure of radiologists. A CAD system for lung cancer diagnosis includes nodule candidate detection and nodule malignancy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-17 Shaohua Zheng , Zhiqiang Shen , Chenhao Peia , Wangbin Ding , Haojin Lin , Jiepeng Zheng , Lin Pan , Bin Zheng , Liqin Huang

Lung cancer has been one of the major threats to human life for decades. Computer-aided diagnosis can help with early lung nodul detection and facilitate subsequent nodule characterization. Large Visual Language models (VLMs) have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-04 Furqan Shaukat , Syed Muhammad Anwar , Abhijeet Parida , Van Khanh Lam , Marius George Linguraru , Mubarak Shah

Accurate detection of pulmonary nodules with high sensitivity and specificity is essential for automatic lung cancer diagnosis from CT scans. Although many deep learning-based algorithms make great progress for improving the accuracy of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-30 Jingya Liu , Liangliang Cao , Oguz Akin , Yingli Tian

Accurate assessment of Lung nodules is a time consuming and error prone ingredient of the radiologist interpretation work. Automating 3D volume detection and segmentation can improve workflow as well as patient care. Previous works have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-29 Evi Kopelowitz , Guy Engelhard

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

In this work, we present a fully automated lung CT cancer diagnosis system, DeepLung. DeepLung contains two parts, nodule detection and classification. Considering the 3D nature of lung CT data, two 3D networks are designed for the nodule…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Wentao Zhu , Chaochun Liu , Wei Fan , Xiaohui Xie