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AMS-U-Net: automatic mass segmentation in digital breast tomosynthesis via U-Net
Ahmad Qasem1, Genggeng Qin2, Zhiguo Zhou1,3
1University of Kansas Medical Center, The Reliable Intelligence and Medical Innovation Laboratory (RIMI Lab), Department of Biostatistics & Data Science, Kansas City, Kansas, United States.
Purpose:
The objective of this study was to develop a fully automatic mass segmentation method called AMS-U-Net for digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), a popular breast cancer screening imaging modality. The aim was to address the challenges posed by the increasing number of slices in DBT, which leads to higher mass contouring workload and decreased treatment efficiency.
Approach:
The study used 50 slices from different DBT volumes for evaluation. The AMS-U-Net approach consisted of four stages: image pre-processing, AMS-U-Net training, image segmentation, and post-processing. The model performance was evaluated by calculating the true positive ratio (TPR), false positive ratio (FPR), F-score, intersection over union (IoU), and 95% Hausdorff distance (pixels) as they are appropriate for datasets with class imbalance.
Results:
The model achieved 0.911, 0.003, 0.911, 0.900, 5.82 for TPR, FPR, F-score, IoU, and 95% Hausdorff distance, respectively.
Conclusions:
The AMS-U-Net model demonstrated impressive visual and quantitative results, achieving high accuracy in mass segmentation without the need for human interaction. This capability has the potential to significantly increase clinical efficiency and workflow in DBT for breast cancer screening.
