The article reviews recent applications of artificial intelligence and deep learning, particularly convolutional neural networks with transfer learning and data augmentation, for detecting lung cancer in medical images. It surveys 96 studies from 2015 onward, highlighting high sensitivity and specificity achieved by these methods. The authors also identify challenges such as data standardization, model explainability, patient privacy, and ethical concerns that must be addressed before clinical deployment.
arXiv:2607. 26580v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the increase in the number of cases related to respiratory diseases, there is an urgent need to detect them early and diagnose them accurately.
The article presents a comparative study of convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures for classifying COVID-19 from healthy lung images using CT and X‑ray scans. Multiple pre‑trained models—including VGG, DenseNet, ResNet, MobileNet, Xception, Inception, EfficientNet, and NasNet—were evaluated on two X‑ray and two CT datasets. ResNet and VGG achieved the highest accuracies, ranging from 95% to 98%, outperforming previous reports in the literature.
This study introduces a computationally efficient convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture enhanced with transfer learning for multi-cancer detection using biomedical images. The proposed lightweight CNN model is designed to reduce computational complexity while maintaining high classification performance, making it suitable for deployment in resource-constrained environments.
arXiv:2608. 15915v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, while histopathological diagnosis is often affected by inter-observer variability and the substantial workload associated with manual slide examination.
arXiv:2606. 04453v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Radiomics enables extraction of quantitative imaging biomarkers from medical images and has become an important tool for computer-aided cancer diagnosis.
The paper presents a lightweight CNN‑integrated Compact Convolutional Transformer (CCT) designed for multi‑scale feature learning in breast cancer mammography. With only 250,435 parameters, the model achieved 99‑100% accuracy across three datasets using 5‑fold cross‑validation, demonstrating robust generalization. Explainable AI components were added to clarify the classification process, aiming to increase clinical trust in resource‑constrained settings.
Radiomics enables extraction of quantitative imaging biomarkers from medical images and has become an important tool for computer-aided cancer diagnosis. However, radiomics datasets are typically high-dimensional with limited samples, making feature selection a critical step for building reliable predictive models.
arXiv:2606. 27405v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning has shown significant potential in medical image analysis, particularly for disease detection using MRI scans.
The study evaluates ten ImageNet‑pretrained deep learning models for classifying benign versus malignant breast cancer in the BreakHis histopathology dataset, using a patient‑level split. DenseNet121 achieved the highest performance with 99.4% accuracy and an AUC‑ROC of 0.999, outperforming all other models (p < 0.001). Explainability methods (Grad‑CAM, LIME, Integrated Gradients, LRP) consistently identified nuclei‑rich and glandular regions as key diagnostic features, demonstrating that transfer learning combined with explainable AI can produce accurate and interpretable breast cancer diagnostic tools.
The paper presents a lightweight, energy‑efficient lung tumor segmentation model that combines the ENet architecture with UNet‑style skip connections and a lightweight Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM). Trained on TCIA data and evaluated on LIDC‑IDRI, the model achieves a Dice score of 0.90812 while using only 430,052 parameters and 0.549 GMAC, making it up to 10 times faster and far less computationally demanding than UNet or SegNet. Grad‑CAM is employed to provide visual interpretability and highlight areas needing improvement.
arXiv:2608.21571v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Lung cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, and early diagnosis is critical for improving survival. However, early-stage...
This study presents a clinically relevant framework for evaluating deep neural networks that segment lymphoma lesions in PET/CT images, addressing gaps such as out‑of‑distribution testing and comparison with expert annotators. Using 611 multi‑institutional cases, the authors assess four networks (ResUNet, SegResNet, DynUNet, SwinUNETR) with lesion‑specific metrics, detection criteria, and metabolic‑characteristic‑based thresholds, finding that models perform best on large, intense lesions. The work also demonstrates that network errors mirror those of physicians, highlighting shared challenges with small, faint lesions.