Abstract Background and Objective Cerebral vascular accident (CVA), also known as stroke,
is an important health problem worldwide and it affects 16 million people worldwide every …

Identification of diseases based on processing and analysis of medical images is of great
importance for medical doctors to assist them in their decision making. In this work, a new …

Novel segmentation methods based on models of deformable active contours are constantly
proposed and validated in different fields of knowledge, with the aim to make the detection of …

Abstract The World Health Organization estimated that around 300 million people have
asthma, and 210 million people are affected by Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease …

Stroke is the second most common cause of death and one of the leading causes of
disability in industrialized countries. Among the 17.5 million deaths caused by …

Abstract The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 300 million people have
asthma and that this disease causes about 250 thousand deaths per year worldwide. The …

Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is a common disease all
over the world that can be deadliest if not diagnosed at the early stages. Thus an accurate …

This work proposes a method of steganography without embedding that uses an artificial
neural network (ANN) for subliminally communicating some sensitive information using …

Lung diseases identification based on analysis and processing of medical images is
important to assist medical doctors during the diagnosis process. In this context, this paper …

Computed tomography (CT) stands out among the exams used by computer-aided
diagnosis in medical imaging as it provides the visualization of internal organs such as the …