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Characterization of lung nodules as benign or malignant is one of the most important tasks in lung cancer diagnosis, staging and treatment planning. While the variation in the appearance of the nodules remains large, there is a need for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Sarfaraz Hussein , Robert Gillies , Kunlin Cao , Qi Song , Ulas Bagci

Detection of pulmonary nodules by CT is used for screening lung cancer in early stages.omputer aided diagnosis (CAD) based on deep-learning method can identify the suspected areas of pulmonary nodules in CT images, thus improving the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-24 Yang Liu , Yue-Jie Hou , Chen-Xin Qin , Xin-Hui Li , Si-Jing Li , Bin Wang , Chi-Chun Zhou

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

The early identification of malignant pulmonary nodules is critical for better lung cancer prognosis and less invasive chemo or radio therapies. Nodule malignancy assessment done by radiologists is extremely useful for planning a preventive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-19 Ilaria Bonavita , Xavier Rafael-Palou , Mario Ceresa , Gemma Piella , Vicent Ribas , Miguel A. González Ballester

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

Lung cancer is a global and dangerous disease, and its early detection is crucial to reducing the risks of mortality. In this regard, it has been of great interest in developing a computer-aided system for pulmonary nodules detection as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Bum-Chae Kim , Jun-Sik Choi , Heung-Il Suk

Lung cancer follow-up is a complex, error prone, and time consuming task for clinical radiologists. Several lung CT scan images taken at different time points of a given patient need to be individually inspected, looking for possible…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-24 Xavier Rafael-Palou , Anton Aubanell , Ilaria Bonavita , Mario Ceresa , Gemma Piella , Vicent Ribas , Miguel Ángel González Ballester

Early detection of lung cancer is crucial for effective treatment and relies on accurate volumetric assessment of pulmonary nodules in CT scans. Traditional methods, such as consolidation-to-tumor ratio (CTR) and spherical approximation,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Yihan Zhou , Haocheng Huang , Yue Yu , Jianhui Shang

Lung cancer is one of the death threatening diseases among human beings. Early and accurate detection of lung cancer can increase the survival rate from lung cancer. Computed Tomography (CT) images are commonly used for detecting the lung…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-26 Md Rashidul Hasan , Muntasir Al Kabir

This paper introduces a novel deep-learning method for the automatic detection and segmentation of lung nodules, aimed at advancing the accuracy of early-stage lung cancer diagnosis. The proposed approach leverages a unique "Channel Squeeze…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Mingxiu Sui , Jiacheng Hu , Tong Zhou , Zibo Liu , Likang Wen , Junliang Du

Although radiographs are the most frequently used worldwide due to their cost-effectiveness and widespread accessibility, the structural superposition along the x-ray paths often renders suspicious or concerning lung nodules difficult to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-25 Chuang Niu , Giridhar Dasegowda , Pingkun Yan , Mannudeep K. Kalra , Ge Wang

Pulmonary nodule detection, false positive reduction and segmentation represent three of the most common tasks in the computeraided analysis of chest CT images. Methods have been proposed for eachtask with deep learning based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Hao Tang , Chupeng Zhang , Xiaohui Xie

Different types of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been applied to detect cancerous lung nodules from computed tomography (CT) scans. However, the size of a nodule is very diverse and can range anywhere between 3 and 30…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Mundher Al-Shabi , Hwee Kuan Lee , Maxine Tan

The early detection and early diagnosis of lung cancer are crucial to improve the survival rate of lung cancer patients. Pulmonary nodules detection results have a significant impact on the later diagnosis. In this work, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Tian Lan , Yuanyuan Li , Jonah Kimani Murugi , Yi Ding , Zhiguang Qin

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Gorkem Polat , Ugur Halici , Yesim Serinagaoglu Dogrusoz

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and early diagnosis is associated with a positive prognosis. Chest X-ray (CXR) provides an inexpensive imaging mode for lung cancer diagnosis. Suspicious nodules are difficult to distinguish…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-14 Michael James Horry , Subrata Chakraborty , Biswajeet Pradhan , Manoranjan Paul , Jing Zhu , Prabal Datta Barua , U. Rajendra Acharya , Fang Chen , Jianlong Zhou

Lung cancer has the highest rate of cancer-caused deaths, and early-stage diagnosis could increase the survival rate. Lung nodules are common indicators of lung cancer, making their detection crucial. Various lung nodule detection models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Saeed Shakuri , Alireza Rezvanian

Lung nodule detection is a class imbalanced problem because nodules are found with much lower frequency than non-nodules. In the class imbalanced problem, conventional classifiers tend to be overwhelmed by the majority class and ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Masaharu Sakamoto , Hiroki Nakano

The integration of Internet of Things (IoT) technology in pulmonary nodule detection significantly enhances the intelligence and real-time capabilities of the detection system. Currently, lung nodule detection primarily focuses on the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Meng Wang , Zi Yang , Ruifeng Zhao , Yaoting Jiang

Lung Cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Early and automatic diagnosis of Solitary Pulmonary Nodules (SPN) in Computer Tomography (CT) chest scans can provide early treatment as well as doctor liberation from…

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