Breast cancer detection from ultrasound images using attention U-nets model

Abstract

Breast cancer is the most common form of invasive cancer in women. In recent years, it has become standard practise to perform breast mass evaluations using ultrasound (US) imaging. US can accurately distinguish between malignant and benign breast masses when used by skilled radiologists, as compared to other medical imaging modalities such as MRI. Human domain knowledge is difficult to incorporate into the diagnosis of breast tumours because it differs greatly from person to person in terms of shape, border, curve, intensity, and other commonly used medical priors. A deep learning model that incorporates visual saliency can now be used to segment breast tumours in ultrasound images. Radiologists use the term "visual saliency," which refers to areas of an image that are more likely to be noticed. Features that prioritise spatial regions with high saliency levels are learned using the proposed method. According to validation results, tumours are more accurately identified in models that include attention layers than those without them. The salient attention model has the potential to improve medical image analysis accuracy and robustness by allowing deep learning architectures to incorporate task-specific knowledge. AUC-ROC plots show that our new model is more accurate in terms of IOU and AUC-ROC scores, dice score, precision, recall, and IOU.