Publications by authors named "Sanjay N Talbar"

Lung cancer has the highest mortality rate. Its diagnosis and treatment analysis depends upon the accurate segmentation of the tumor. It becomes tedious if done manually as radiologists are overburdened with numerous medical imaging tests due to the increase in cancer patients and the COVID pandemic.

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Lung nodule segmentation plays a crucial role in early-stage lung cancer diagnosis, and early detection of lung cancer can improve the survival rate of the patients. The approaches based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) have outperformed the traditional image processing approaches in various computer vision applications, including medical image analysis. Although multiple techniques based on convolutional neural networks have provided state-of-the-art performances for medical image segmentation tasks, these techniques still have some challenges.

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High-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) images in interstitial lung disease (ILD) screening can help improve healthcare quality. However, most of the earlier ILD classification work involves time-consuming manual identification of the region of interest (ROI) from the lung HRCT image before applying the deep learning classification algorithm. This paper has developed a two-stage hybrid approach of deep learning networks for ILD classification.

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Automatic liver and tumor segmentation are essential steps to take decisive action in hepatic disease detection, deciding therapeutic planning, and post-treatment assessment. The computed tomography (CT) scan has become the choice of medical experts to diagnose hepatic anomalies. However, due to advancements in CT image acquisition protocol, CT scan data is growing and manual delineation of the liver and tumor from the CT volume becomes cumbersome and tedious for medical experts.

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Automatic liver and tumor segmentation play a significant role in clinical interpretation and treatment planning of hepatic diseases. To segment liver and tumor manually from the hundreds of computed tomography (CT) images is tedious and labor-intensive; thus, segmentation becomes expert dependent. In this paper, we proposed the multi-scale approach to improve the receptive field of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) by representing multi-scale features that extract global and local features at a more granular level.

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Breast Cancer is the most prevalent cancer among women across the globe. Automatic detection of breast cancer using Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system suffers from false positives (FPs). Thus, reduction of FP is one of the challenging tasks to improve the performance of the diagnosis systems.

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Background And Objective: Early detection is the important key to reduce breast cancer mortality rate. Detecting the mammographic abnormality as a subtle sign of breast cancer is essential for the proper diagnosis and treatment. The aim of this preliminary study is to develop algorithms which detect suspicious lesions and characterize them to reduce the diagnostic errors regarding false positives and false negatives.

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Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is a parasite infection caused by the tapeworm Taenia solium in its larvae stage which affects the central nervous system of the human body (a definite host). It results in the formation of multiple lesions in the brain at different locations during its various stages. During diagnosis of such symptomatic patients, these lesions can be better visualized using a feature based fusion of Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

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