Fully multi-target segmentation for breast ultrasound image based on fully convolutional network.

Ultrasound image segmentation plays an important role in computer-aided diagnosis of breast cancer. Existing approaches focused on extracting the tumor tissue to characterize the tumor class. However, other tissues are also helpful for providing the references. In this paper, a multi-target semantic...

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Publicado en:Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing Vol. 58; no. 9; pp. 2049 - 2062
Autores principales: Zhang, Yingtao, Liu, Yan, Cheng, Hengda, Li, Ziyao, Liu, Cong
Formato: Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Sep2020
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          Zhang, Yingtao
          Liu, Yan
          Cheng, Hengda
          Li, Ziyao
          Liu, Cong
        affil: School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, No. 92, Xidazhi Street, 150001, Harbin, China
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          Breast
          Ultrasonography Methods
          Breast Neoplasms
          Ultrasonography Statistics and Numerical Data
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          Bioinformatics
          Female
          Image Interpretation, Computer Assisted Statistics and Numerical Data
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          Image Interpretation, Computer Assisted Methods
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      ab: Ultrasound image segmentation plays an important role in computer-aided diagnosis of breast cancer. Existing approaches focused on extracting the tumor tissue to characterize the tumor class. However, other tissues are also helpful for providing the references. In this paper, a multi-target semantic segmentation approach is proposed based on the fully convolutional network for segmenting the breast ultrasound image into different target tissue regions. For handling the uncertain affiliation of pixels in blurry boundaries, the certain outputs of pixel characteristics in AlexNet are transformed into the fuzzy decision expression. For improving the image detail representation, the AlexNet network structure of fully convolutional network is optimized with fully connected skip structure. In addition, the output of net model is optimized with fully connected conditional random field to improve the characterization of spatial consistency and pixels' correlation of the image. Moreover, a data training optimization method is developed for improving the efficiency of network training. In the experiment, 325 ultrasound images and four error metrics are utilized for validating the segmentation performance. Comparing with existing methods, experimental results show that the proposed approach is effective for handling the breast ultrasound images accurately and reliably. Graphical abstract.
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