{"title":"A Multi-Task Learning Framework for Automated Segmentation and Classification of Breast Tumors From Ultrasound Images.","authors":"Jignesh Chowdary, Pratheepan Yogarajah, Priyanka Chaurasia, Velmathi Guruviah","doi":"10.1177/01617346221075769","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Breast cancer is one of the most fatal diseases leading to the death of several women across the world. But early diagnosis of breast cancer can help to reduce the mortality rate. So an efficient multi-task learning approach is proposed in this work for the automatic segmentation and classification of breast tumors from ultrasound images. The proposed learning approach consists of an encoder, decoder, and bridge blocks for segmentation and a dense branch for the classification of tumors. For efficient classification, multi-scale features from different levels of the network are used. Experimental results show that the proposed approach is able to enhance the accuracy and recall of segmentation by <math><mrow><mn>1</mn><mo>.</mo><mn>08</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></math>, <math><mrow><mn>4</mn><mo>.</mo><mn>13</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></math>, and classification by <math><mrow><mn>1</mn><mo>.</mo><mn>16</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></math>, <math><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>.</mo><mn>34</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></math>, respectively than the methods available in the literature.</p>","PeriodicalId":49401,"journal":{"name":"Ultrasonic Imaging","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/8f/98/10.1177_01617346221075769.PMC8902030.pdf","citationCount":"15","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Ultrasonic Imaging","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01617346221075769","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2022/2/7 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ACOUSTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 15
Abstract
Breast cancer is one of the most fatal diseases leading to the death of several women across the world. But early diagnosis of breast cancer can help to reduce the mortality rate. So an efficient multi-task learning approach is proposed in this work for the automatic segmentation and classification of breast tumors from ultrasound images. The proposed learning approach consists of an encoder, decoder, and bridge blocks for segmentation and a dense branch for the classification of tumors. For efficient classification, multi-scale features from different levels of the network are used. Experimental results show that the proposed approach is able to enhance the accuracy and recall of segmentation by , , and classification by , , respectively than the methods available in the literature.
期刊介绍:
Ultrasonic Imaging provides rapid publication for original and exceptional papers concerned with the development and application of ultrasonic-imaging technology. Ultrasonic Imaging publishes articles in the following areas: theoretical and experimental aspects of advanced methods and instrumentation for imaging