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LRSCnet: Local Reference Semantic Code learning for breast tumor classification in ultrasound images.
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Biomedical engineering online [Biomed Eng Online] 2021 Dec 17; Vol. 20 (1), pp. 127. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Dec 17. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Purpose: This study proposed a novel Local Reference Semantic Code (LRSC) network for automatic breast ultrasound image classification with few labeled data.<br />Methods: In the proposed network, the local structure extractor is firstly developed to learn the local reference which describes common local characteristics of tumors. After that, a two-stage hierarchical encoder is developed to encode the local structures of lesion into the high-level semantic code. Based on the learned semantic code, the self-matching layer is proposed for the final classification.<br />Results: In the experiment, the proposed method outperformed traditional classification methods and AUC (Area Under Curve), ACC (Accuracy), Sen (Sensitivity), Spec (Specificity), PPV (Positive Predictive Values), and NPV(Negative Predictive Values) are 0.9540, 0.9776, 0.9629, 0.93, 0.9774 and 0.9090, respectively. In addition, the proposed method also improved matching speed.<br />Conclusions: LRSC-network is proposed for breast ultrasound images classification with few labeled data. In the proposed network, a two-stage hierarchical encoder is introduced to learn high-level semantic code. The learned code contains more effective high-level classification information and is simpler, leading to better generalization ability.<br /> (© 2021. The Author(s).)
- Subjects :
- Female
Humans
Ultrasonography, Mammary
Breast Neoplasms diagnostic imaging
Semantics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1475-925X
- Volume :
- 20
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Biomedical engineering online
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 34920726
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12938-021-00968-3