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ArticleScientific reports2018

Detecting and classifying lesions in mammograms with Deep Learning.

Dezső Ribli, Anna Horváth, Zsuzsa Unger, Péter Pollner, István Csabai

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Dezső RibliDepartment of Physics of Complex Systems, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. dkrib@caesar.elte.hu.
Anna Horváth3rd Department of Internal Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
Zsuzsa UngerDepartment of Radiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
Péter PollnerMTA-ELTE Statistical and Biological Physics Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
István CsabaiDepartment of Physics of Complex Systems, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0001-9232-9898

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the last two decades, Computer Aided Detection (CAD) systems were developed to help radiologists analyse screening mammograms, however benefits of current CAD technologies appear to be contradictory, therefore they should be improved to be ultimately considered useful. Since 2012, deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been a tremendous success in image recognition, reaching human performance. These methods have greatly surpassed the traditional approaches, which are similar to currently used CAD solutions. Deep CNN-s have the potential to revolutionize medical image analysis. We propose a CAD system based on one of the most successful object detection frameworks, Faster R-CNN. The system detects and classifies malignant or benign lesions on a mammogram without any human intervention. The proposed method sets the state of the art classification performance on the public INbreast database, AUC = 0.95. The approach described here has achieved 2nd place in the Digital Mammography DREAM Challenge with AUC = 0.85. When used as a detector, the system reaches high sensitivity with very few false positive marks per image on the INbreast dataset. Source code, the trained model and an OsiriX plugin are published online at https://github.com/riblidezso/frcnn_cad .

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Deep LearningBreast NeoplasmsData AccuracyDatabases, FactualDiagnosis, Computer-AssistedEarly Detection of CancerFemaleHumansMachine LearningMammographyMass ScreeningNeural Networks, ComputerROC Curve

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PMID29545529
PMCPMC5854668

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