Sannasi Chakravarthy¹, Bharanidharan Nagarajan², Surbhi Bhatia Khan^3,7,*, Vinoth Kumar Venkatesan², Mahesh Thyluru Ramakrishna⁴, Ahlam Al Musharraf⁵, Khursheed Aurungzeb⁶

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.3, pp. 5029-5045, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052531 - 12 September 2024

Abstract Breast cancer is a type of cancer responsible for higher mortality rates among women. The cruelty of breast cancer always requires a promising approach for its earlier detection. In light of this, the proposed research leverages the representation ability of pretrained EfficientNet-B0 model and the classification ability of the XGBoost model for the binary classification of breast tumors. In addition, the above transfer learning model is modified in such a way that it will focus more on tumor cells in the input mammogram. Accordingly, the work proposed an EfficientNet-B0 having a Spatial Attention Layer with More >

Afnan M. Alhassan^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.78, No.2, pp. 2207-2223, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.046427 - 27 February 2024

Abstract Breast Arterial Calcification (BAC) is a mammographic decision dissimilar to cancer and commonly observed in elderly women. Thus identifying BAC could provide an expense, and be inaccurate. Recently Deep Learning (DL) methods have been introduced for automatic BAC detection and quantification with increased accuracy. Previously, classification with deep learning had reached higher efficiency, but designing the structure of DL proved to be an extremely challenging task due to overfitting models. It also is not able to capture the patterns and irregularities presented in the images. To solve the overfitting problem, an optimal feature set has… More >

Manar Ahmed Hamza^*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.3, pp. 2879-2895, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.034719 - 15 March 2023

Abstract Breast Cancer (BC) is considered the most commonly scrutinized cancer in women worldwide, affecting one in eight women in a lifetime. Mammography screening becomes one such standard method that is helpful in identifying suspicious masses’ malignancy of BC at an initial level. However, the prior identification of masses in mammograms was still challenging for extremely dense and dense breast categories and needs an effective and automatic mechanisms for helping radiotherapists in diagnosis. Deep learning (DL) techniques were broadly utilized for medical imaging applications, particularly breast mass classification. The advancements in the DL field paved the… More >

Vicky Mudeng^1,2, Jin-woo Jeong³, Se-woon Choe^1,4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 4677-4693, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.031046 - 28 July 2022

Abstract A lump growing in the breast may be referred to as a breast mass related to the tumor. However, not all tumors are cancerous or malignant. Breast masses can cause discomfort and pain, depending on the size and texture of the breast. With an appropriate diagnosis, non-cancerous breast masses can be diagnosed earlier to prevent their cultivation from being malignant. With the development of the artificial neural network, the deep discriminative model, such as a convolutional neural network, may evaluate the breast lesion to distinguish benign and malignant cancers from mammogram breast masses images. This… More >

Yassir Edrees Almalki¹, Maida Khalid², Sharifa Khalid Alduraibi³, Qudsia Yousaf², Maryam Zaffar², Shoayea Mohessen Almutiri⁴, Muhammad Irfan⁵, Mohammad Abd Alkhalik Basha⁶, Alaa Khalid Alduraibi³, Abdulrahman Manaa Alamri⁷, Khalaf Alshamrani⁸, Hassan A. Alshamrani^8,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 4103-4121, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029039 - 16 June 2022

Abstract Since reporting cases of breast cancer are on the rise all over the world. Especially in regions such as Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. Efficient methods for the early detection and diagnosis of breast cancer are needed. The usual diagnosis procedures followed by physicians has been updated with modern diagnostic approaches that include computer-aided support for better accuracy. Machine learning based practices has increased the accuracy and efficiency of medical diagnosis, which has helped save lives of many patients. There is much research in the field of medical imaging diagnostics that can be… More >

D. Banumathy^1,*, Osamah Ibrahim Khalaf², Carlos Andrés Tavera Romero³, J. Indra⁴, Dilip Kumar Sharma⁵

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.34, No.1, pp. 667-685, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.025609 - 15 April 2022

Abstract Lump in the breast, discharge of blood from the nipple, and deformation of the nipple/breast and its texture are the symptoms of breast cancer. Though breast cancer is very common in women, men can also get breast cancer. In the early stages, BCD makes use of Thermal Mammograms Breast Images (TMBI). The cost of treatment can be severely reduced in the early stages of detection. Based on the techniques of segmentation, the Breast Cancer Detection (BCD) works. Moreover, by providing a balanced, reliable and appropriate second opinion, a tremendous role has been played by ML… More >

Romany F. Mansour^1,*, Maha M. Althobaiti²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.2, pp. 3945-3959, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026515 - 29 March 2022

Abstract Recently, the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has become a research hotspot due to its various applicability in medical field. However, the data analysis and management in IoMT remain challenging owing to the existence of a massive number of devices linked to the server environment, generating a massive quantity of healthcare data. In such cases, cognitive computing can be employed that uses many intelligent technologies–machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL), artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP) and others–to comprehend data expansively. Furthermore, breast cancer (BC) has been found to be a major cause of… More >

José Escorcia-Gutierrez^1,*, Romany F. Mansour², Kelvin Beleño³, Javier Jiménez-Cabas⁴, Meglys Pérez¹, Natasha Madera¹, Kevin Velasquez¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 4221-4235, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.022322 - 14 January 2022

Abstract Biomedical image processing is a hot research topic which helps to majorly assist the disease diagnostic process. At the same time, breast cancer becomes the deadliest disease among women and can be detected by the use of different imaging techniques. Digital mammograms can be used for the earlier identification and diagnostic of breast cancer to minimize the death rate. But the proper identification of breast cancer has mainly relied on the mammography findings and results to increased false positives. For resolving the issues of false positives of breast cancer diagnosis, this paper presents an automated… More >

S. Sathiya Devi¹, S. Vidivelli^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 3049-3066, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.019917 - 27 September 2021

Abstract Breast cancer is one of the common invasive cancers and stands at second position for death after lung cancer. The present research work is useful in image processing for characterizing shape and gray-scale complexity. The proposed Modified Differential Box Counting (MDBC) extract Fractal features such as Fractal Dimension (FD), Lacunarity, and Succolarity for shape characterization. In traditional DBC method, the unreasonable results obtained when FD is computed for tumour regions with the same roughness of intensity surface but different gray-levels. The problem is overcome by the proposed MDBC method that uses box over counting and… More >

Mavra Mehmood¹, Ember Ayub¹, Fahad Ahmad^1,6,*, Madallah Alruwaili², Ziyad A. Alrowaili³, Saad Alanazi², Mamoona Humayun², Muhammad Rizwan¹, Shahid Naseem⁴, Tahir Alyas⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.1, pp. 641-657, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.013774 - 12 January 2021

Abstract Clinical image processing plays a significant role in healthcare systems and is currently a widely used methodology. In carcinogenic diseases, time is crucial; thus, an image’s accurate analysis can help treat disease at an early stage. Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) are common types of malignancies that affect both women and men. The number of cases of DCIS and LCIS has increased every year since 2002, while it still takes a considerable amount of time to recommend a controlling technique. Image processing is a powerful technique to analyze preprocessed… More >