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Deep Location Soft-Embedding-Based Network With Regional Scoring for Mammogram Classification


Abstract:

Early detection and treatment of breast cancer can significantly reduce patient mortality, and mammogram is an effective method for early screening. Computer-aided diagno...Show More

Abstract:

Early detection and treatment of breast cancer can significantly reduce patient mortality, and mammogram is an effective method for early screening. Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) of mammography based on deep learning can assist radiologists in making more objective and accurate judgments. However, existing methods often depend on datasets with manual segmentation annotations. In addition, due to the large image sizes and small lesion proportions, many methods that do not use region of interest (ROI) mostly rely on multi-scale and multi-feature fusion models. These shortcomings increase the labor, money, and computational overhead of applying the model. Therefore, a deep location soft-embedding-based network with regional scoring (DLSEN-RS) is proposed. DLSEN-RS is an end-to-end mammography image classification method containing only one feature extractor and relies on positional embedding (PE) and aggregation pooling (AP) modules to locate lesion areas without bounding boxes, transfer learning, or multi-stage training. In particular, the introduced PE and AP modules exhibit versatility across various CNN models and improve the model’s tumor localization and diagnostic accuracy for mammography images. Experiments are conducted on published INbreast and CBIS-DDSM datasets, and compared to previous state-of-the-art mammographic image classification methods, DLSEN-RS performed satisfactorily.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging ( Volume: 43, Issue: 9, September 2024)
Page(s): 3137 - 3148
Date of Publication: 16 April 2024

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PubMed ID: 38625766

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