Title
Residual Deep Learning System for Mass Segmentation and Classification in Mammography.
Abstract
Automatic extraction of breast mass in mammogram (MG) images is a challenging task due to the varying sizes, shapes, and textures of masses. Moreover, the density of MGs makes mass detection very challenging since masses can be hidden in dense MGs. In this paper, we propose a residual deep learning (DL) system for mass segmentation and classification in mammography. The overall proposed system consists of two cascaded parts: 1) a residual attention U-Net model (RU-Net) to precisely segment mass lesions in MG images, followed by 2) a ResNet classifier to classify the detected binary segmented lesions into benign or malignant. The proposed semantic based CNN model, RU-Net, has the basic architecture of the U-Net model, which extracts contextual information combining low-level feature with high-level ones. We have modified the U-Net structure by adding residual attention modules in order to preserve the spatial and context information, help the network have deeper architecture, and handles the gradient vanishing problem. We compared the performance of the proposed RU-Net model with those of state-of-the-art two semantic segmentation models, and two object detectors using public databases. We also examined the effect of the breast density on the accuracy of localizing and segmenting the breast masses. Our proposed model shows superior performance compared to the other DL methods in detecting and segmenting masses, especially for heterogeneously dense and dense MG images, in terms of intersection over union (IOU) and the Dice index coefficient (DI). Moreover, our results show that the cascaded ResNet model, trained using binary-scale images, classify the masses to benign or malignant with higher accuracy compared to the ResNet model that is trained on gray-scale images.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3307339.3342157
BCB
Field
DocType
ISBN
Residual,Mammography,Computer science,Segmentation,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Machine learning
Conference
978-1-4503-6666-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.40
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dina Abdelhafiz151.46
Sheida Nabavi2188.68
Reda A. Ammar34114.54
Clifford Yang461.82
Jinbo Bi51432104.24