Fully convolutional network for breast lesion segmentation in ultrasound image: towards false positive reduction

Sicong Zhang; Alaa Al Zoubi; Hongbo Du

doi:10.1117/12.2618502

27 May 2022 Fully convolutional network for breast lesion segmentation in ultrasound image: towards false positive reduction

Sicong Zhang, Alaa Al Zoubi, Hongbo Du

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Proceedings Volume 12100, Multimodal Image Exploitation and Learning 2022; 1210007 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2618502
Event: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2022, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Ultrasound scan (US) imagery is an important tool for radiologists to make a fast and reliable diagnosis decision about breast lesion status (benign or malignant). Accurate and automatic segmentation of breast lesion is critical for annotating the lesion characteristics such as margin smoothness and regularity in support of the diagnosis decision. Fully convolutional network (FCN) is one of the commonly used deep learning neural network methods for semantic segmentation. This paper is concerned with effective adaptation of the FCN solutions for segmenting breast lesions from 2D ultrasound images. The paper aims to first evaluate the existing FCN solution for solving the problem at hand and compare its performance with another popular method using U-Net. The paper then highlights one key issue with the FCN, i.e. false positive pixels near the boundary of a lesion and false positive pixels forming false lesions. The paper then investigates several methods in reducing such false positive pixels, including the use of data augmentation in training the classification model and use of loss functions in training the models. Experimental results using several data sets collected from various sources show that our adapted FCN method outperforms U-Net-based solutions in general and the false positive reduction methods we attempted have reduced the false positive pixels in both regions close to lesion boundary and separate from true lesion regions.

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Sicong Zhang, Alaa Al Zoubi, and Hongbo Du "Fully convolutional network for breast lesion segmentation in ultrasound image: towards false positive reduction", Proc. SPIE 12100, Multimodal Image Exploitation and Learning 2022, 1210007 (27 May 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2618502

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