Abstract | ||
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Dynamic Contrast Enhanced-Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DCE-MRI) has demonstrated, in recent years, a great potential as a complementary diagnostic method for early detection and diagnosis of breast cancer. However, due to the large amount of data, DCE-MRI manual inspection is error prone and can hardly be handled without the use of a Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system. In a typical CAD processing, the segmentation of the breast parenchyma is a crucial stage aimed to reduce computational effort and to increase reliability. In the last years, deep convolutional networks have outperformed the state-of-the-art in many visual tasks, such as image classification and object recognition. However, very few proposals based on a deep learning approach have been applied so far for segmentation tasks in the biomedical field. The aim of this work is to apply a suitably modified convolutional neural network for fully-automating the non-trivial breast tissues segmentation task in 3D MR data, in order to accurately segment breast parenchyma from the air and other tissues (such as chest-wall). The proposed approach has been validated over 42 DCE-MRI studies. The median segmentation accuracy and Dice similarity index were 98.93 (+/- 0; 15) and 95.90 (+/- 0; 74) respectively with p < 0.05, and 100% of neoplastic lesion coverage. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2018 | 10.1109/ICPR.2018.8545327 | 2018 24TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION (ICPR) |
Field | DocType | ISSN |
CAD,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Segmentation,Convolutional neural network,Computer science,Computer-aided diagnosis,Image segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Contextual image classification,Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition | Conference | 1051-4651 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 0 |
Authors | ||
3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Gabriele Piantadosi | 1 | 10 | 4.33 |
Mario Sansone | 2 | 14 | 3.97 |
C. Sansone | 3 | 1569 | 94.00 |