Title
DCE-MRI Breast Lesions Segmentation with a 3TP U-Net Deep Convolutional Neural Network
Abstract
Nowadays, Dynamic Contrast Enhanced-Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DCE-MRI) is increasingly succeeding as a complementary methodology for breast cancer, with Computer Aided Detection/Diagnosis (CAD) systems becoming essential technological tools to provide early detection and diagnosis of tumours. Several CADs make use of machine learning, resulting in a constant design of hand-crafted features aimed at better assisting the physician. In recent years, Deep learning (DL) approaches raised in popularity in many pattern recognition tasks thanks to their ability to learn compact hierarchical features that well fit the specific task to solve. If, on one and, this characteristic suggests to explore DL suitability for biomedical image processing, on the other, it is important to take into account the physiological inheritance of the images under analysis. With this goal in mind, in this work we propose "3TP U-Net", an U-Shaped Deep Convolutional Neural Network that exploits the well-known Three Time Points approach for the lesion segmentation task. Results show that our proposal is able to outperform not only the classical (non-deep) approaches but also some very recent deep proposal, achieving a median Dice Similarity Coefficient of 61.24%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/CBMS.2019.00130
2019 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Deep Learning,CNN,U Net,3TP,Breast,DCE MRI,Segmentation
Conference
2372-918X
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-2287-8
1
0.37
References 
Authors
7
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gabriele Piantadosi1104.33
Stefano Marrone217425.49
Antonio Galli310.70
Mario Sansone4619.22
C. Sansone5156994.00