Breast Cancer

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Overview

The field studies how to detect breast cancer, estimate future risk, classify tumors, and predict treatment response or recurrence. Common approaches include deep learning on mammograms, MRI, and pathology slides; longitudinal alignment of screening images; and models that combine imaging with clinical records or molecular data. Methods are tested on settings such as EMBED and CSAW-CC mammograms, TCGA-BRCA pathology data, and multi-cohort MRI studies, with external validation used to assess transfer across hospitals and populations. Strong results remain difficult to translate reliably: performance can shift across datasets and subgroups, and safety, calibration, interpretability, and prospective clinical benefit remain important tests.

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  1. A Lightweight Fiducial-Based Pipeline for 3D Hyperspectral Mapping of ex-vivo Lumpectomy Specimens

    Jun 12, 2026Anna Bicchi, Alberto Rota, Leonardo Passoni +5Breast CancerMedical Image Registration

    Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy · Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

  2. Seeing Below the Limit of Detection: A Censored-Poisson Bayesian Latent-Growth Change-Point Detector (the Span Detector) for Serial ctDNA in HR+/HER2- Metastatic Breast Cancer

    Jun 10, 2026Aarchi Singh Thakur, Abhijoy SarkarBreast CancerOncology

    Span AI

  3. BreastGPT: A Multimodal Large Language Model for the Full Spectrum of Breast Cancer Clinical Routine

    Jun 3, 2026Yang Liu, Jiajin Zhang, Danyang Tu +8Breast CancerMedical Imaging

    DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group · Zhejiang University · West China Hospital +1

  4. Multi-Modal Machine Learning for Breast Cancer Recurrence Prediction

    Jun 1, 2026Jiahao Shao, Xudong Wang, Anam Nawaz Khan +3Breast CancerClinical Outcome Prediction

    Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA · The University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN 37920, USA

  5. Can Language Models Identify Side Effects of Breast Cancer Radiation Treatments?

    May 8, 2026Natalie Seah, Danielle S. Bitterman, Daphna Spiegel +1Breast CancerHealthcare

    University of Virginia · Mass General Brigham, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

  6. Multimodal Stepwise Clinically-Guided Attention Learning for Pathological Complete Response Prediction in Breast Cancer

    May 8, 2026Alice Natalina Caragliano, Valerio Guarrasi, Michela Gravina +2Breast CancerClinical Outcome Prediction

    Unit of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Systems, Department of Engineering, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy · Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy · Department of Diagnostics and Intervention, Radiation Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

  7. Feature Dimensionality Outweighs Model Complexity in Breast Cancer Subtype Classification Using TCGA-BRCA Gene Expression Data

    May 7, 2026Meena Al HasaniBreast CancerMulticlass Classification

    Independent Researcher

  8. Mammographic Lesion Segmentation with Lightweight Models: A Comparative Study

    Apr 26, 2026Helder OliveiraBreast CancerEfficient Neural Network Inference

    aIndependent Researcher, GnosisX, Calgary, AB, Canada

  9. Multimodal Fusion of Histopathology Images and Electronic Health Records for Early Breast Cancer Diagnosis

    Apr 18, 2026Aditya Shribhagwan Khandelwal, Mohammad Samar Ansari, Asra AslamBreast CancerComputational Pathology

    University of Sheffield, UK · University of Chester, UK

  10. LoGo-MR: Screening Breast MRI for Cancer Risk Prediction by Efficient Omni-Slice Modeling

    Apr 13, 2026Xin Wang, Yuan Gao, George Yiasemis +13Medical Image AnalysisClinical Risk Prediction

    Netherlands Cancer Institute · Radboud University Medical Center · University Medical Center Utrecht +1

  11. Longitudinal Risk Prediction in Mammography with Privileged History Distillation

    Mar 16, 2026Banafsheh Karimian, Soufiane Belharbi, Alexis Guichemerre +3Breast CancerMedical Imaging

    LIVIA, Dept. of Systems Engineering, ETS Montreal, Canada · Goodman Cancer Institute, Dept. of Oncology, McGill University, Canada

  12. Extracting Breast Cancer Phenotypes from Clinical Notes: Comparing LLMs with Classical Ontology Methods

    Mar 16, 2026Abdullah Bin Faiz, Arbaz Khan Shehzad, Asad Afzal +5Clinical Information ExtractionLLM Information Extraction

    CureMD Research, 80 Pine Street, New York, 10005, USA · Oncology Department, Shifa International Hospital, 4 Pitras Bukhari Rd, H-8/4 H 8/4 H-8, Islamabad, Pakistan

  13. Leveraging Large Language Models and Survival Analysis for Early Prediction of Chemotherapy Outcomes

    Mar 12, 2026Muhammad Faisal Shahid, Asad Afzal, Abdullah Faiz +5Clinical Outcome PredictionCancer Survival Prediction

    CureMD Research, 80 Pine St 21st Floor, New York, NY 10005, United States

  14. BRIGHT: A Collaborative Generalist-Specialist Foundation Model for Breast Pathology

    Mar 3, 2026Xiaojing Guo, Jiatai Lin, Yumian Jia +39Breast CancerHealthcare

  15. Multimodal Survival Modeling and Fairness-Aware Clinical Machine Learning for 5-Year Breast Cancer Risk Prediction

    Feb 25, 2026Toktam KhatibiCancer Survival PredictionMultimodal Survival Analysis

    Faculty of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

  16. OncoVision: Integrating Mammography and Clinical Data through Attention-Driven Multimodal AI for Enhanced Breast Cancer Diagnosis

    Nov 24, 2025Istiak Ahmed, Galib Ahmed, K. Shahriar Sanjid +10Breast CancerMedical Image Segmentation

    Department Electrical and Computer Engineering, North South University, Dhaka, 1229, Bangladesh. · Big-Matrix Lab, North South University, Dhaka, 1229, Bangladesh. · Department of Mathematics and Physics, North South University, Dhaka, 1229, Bangladesh. +7

  17. The Impact of Longitudinal Mammogram Alignment on Breast Cancer Risk Assessment

    Nov 11, 2025Solveig Thrun, Stine Hansen, Zijun Sun +8Longitudinal Medical Image AnalysisMammography

    Department of Physics and Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, 9037, Norway · SPKI The Norwegian Centre for Clinical Artificial Intelligence, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, 9019, Norway · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, 40126, Bologna, Italy +4