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ArticleBiomedicines2023

Improving Breast Cancer Detection and Diagnosis through Semantic Segmentation Using the Unet3+ Deep Learning Framework.

Taukir Alam, Wei-Chung Shia, Fang-Rong Hsu, Taimoor Hassan

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Article in Biomedicines, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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Taukir AlamDepartment of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung 407, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0003-3353-5338
Wei-Chung ShiaDepartment of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung 407, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-5351-840X
Fang-Rong HsuDepartment of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung 407, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-9791-317X
Taimoor HassanInstitute of Translational Medicine and New Drug Development, China Medical University, Taichung 404333, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-2761-2766

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Changhua Christian Hospital 110-CCH-IRP-012; 112-CCH-IRP-117Ministry of Science and Technology MOST 111-2221-E-035-015
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Abstract

We present an analysis and evaluation of breast cancer detection and diagnosis using segmentation models. We used an advanced semantic segmentation method and a deep convolutional neural network to identify the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) lexicon for breast ultrasound images. To improve the segmentation results, we used six models to analyse 309 patients, including 151 benign and 158 malignant tumour images. We compared the Unet3+ architecture with several other models, such as FCN, Unet, SegNet, DeeplabV3+ and pspNet. The Unet3+ model is a state-of-the-art, semantic segmentation architecture that showed optimal performance with an average accuracy of 82.53% and an average intersection over union (IU) of 52.57%. The weighted IU was found to be 89.14% with a global accuracy of 90.99%. The application of these types of segmentation models to the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer provides remarkable results. Our proposed method has the potential to provide a more accurate and objective diagnosis of breast cancer, leading to improved patient outcomes.

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convolution networkdeep learningsemantic segmentationultrasound

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