Title
A Hybrid Framework For Tumor Saliency Estimation
Abstract
Automatic tumor segmentation of breast ultrasound (BUS) image is quite challenging due to the complicated anatomic structure of breast and poor image quality. Most tumor segmentation approaches achieve good performance on BUS images collected in controlled settings; however, the performance degrades greatly with BUS images from different sources. Tumor saliency estimation (TSE) has attracted increasing attention to solve the problem by modeling radiologists' attention mechanism. In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid framework for TSE, which integrates both high-level domain-knowledge and robust low-level saliency assumptions and can overcome drawbacks caused by direct mapping in traditional TSE approaches. The new framework integrated the Neutro-Connectedness (NC) map, the adaptive-center, the correlation and the layer structure-based weighted map. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms state-of-the-art TSE methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ICPR.2018.8545599
2018 24TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION (ICPR)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Breast ultrasound, Tumor saliency estimation, Neutro-Connectedness, Automatic segmentation
Conference
abs/1806.10696
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1051-4651
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fei Xu12814.31
Min Xian2215.84
Yingtao Zhang353.48
Kuan Huang413.41
H. D. Cheng51900138.13
boyu zhang67117.54
Jianrui Ding7276.26
Chunping Ning800.68
Ying Wang900.34