A review on image-based approaches for breast cancer detection, segmentation, and classification

Z Rezaei - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
The breast cancer as the most life-threatening disease among the woman has emerged in
the worldwide. It is supposed that the early testing and treatment for breast cancer detection …

Attention-enriched deep learning model for breast tumor segmentation in ultrasound images

A Vakanski, M **an, PE Freer - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Incorporating human domain knowledge for breast tumor diagnosis is challenging because
shape, boundary, curvature, intensity or other common medical priors vary significantly …

Methods for the segmentation and classification of breast ultrasound images: a review

AE Ilesanmi, U Chaumrattanakul, SS Makhanov - Journal of ultrasound, 2021 - Springer
Purpose Breast ultrasound (BUS) is one of the imaging modalities for the diagnosis and
treatment of breast cancer. However, the segmentation and classification of BUS images is a …

Automatic tumor segmentation in breast ultrasound images using a dilated fully convolutional network combined with an active contour model

Y Hu, Y Guo, Y Wang, J Yu, J Li, S Zhou… - Medical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Due to the low contrast, blurry boundaries, and large amount of shadows in breast
ultrasound (BUS) images, automatic tumor segmentation remains a challenging task. Deep …

Uncertainty aware temporal-ensembling model for semi-supervised abus mass segmentation

X Cao, H Chen, Y Li, Y Peng, S Wang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate breast mass segmentation of automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) images plays a
crucial role in 3D breast reconstruction which can assist radiologists in surgery planning …

Breast ultrasound region of interest detection and lesion localisation

MH Yap, M Goyal, F Osman, R Martí, E Denton… - Artificial Intelligence in …, 2020 - Elsevier
In current breast ultrasound computer aided diagnosis systems, the radiologist preselects a
region of interest (ROI) as an input for computerised breast ultrasound image analysis. This …

A comparative study of pre-trained convolutional neural networks for semantic segmentation of breast tumors in ultrasound

W Gómez-Flores… - Computers in Biology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The automatic segmentation of breast tumors in ultrasound (BUS) has recently been
addressed using convolutional neural networks (CNN). These CNN-based approaches …

[HTML][HTML] Deep Learning-based Multi-stage segmentation method using ultrasound images for breast cancer diagnosis

SW Cho, NR Baek, KR Park - Journal of King Saud University-Computer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Globally, breast cancer occurs frequently in women and has the highest mortality rate.
Owing to the increased need for a rapid and reliable initial diagnosis of breast cancer …

Tumor segmentation in automated whole breast ultrasound using bidirectional LSTM neural network and attention mechanism

P Pan, H Chen, Y Li, N Cai, L Cheng, S Wang - Ultrasonics, 2021 - Elsevier
Accurate breast mass segmentation of automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) is a great help
to breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. However, the lack of clear boundary and …

Breast tumors recognition based on edge feature extraction using support vector machine

Y Liu, L Ren, X Cao, Y Tong - Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2020 - Elsevier
Nowadays, it is important for the detection of ultrasound images of breast tumors. In this
paper, a new ultrasonic image feature extraction algorithm combining edge-based features …