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Joint Weakly and Semi-Supervised Deep Learning for Localization and Classification of Masses in Breast Ultrasound Images


Abstract:

We propose a framework for localization and classification of masses in breast ultrasound images. We have experimentally found that training convolutional neural network-...Show More

Abstract:

We propose a framework for localization and classification of masses in breast ultrasound images. We have experimentally found that training convolutional neural network-based mass detectors with large, weakly annotated datasets presents a non-trivial problem, while overfitting may occur with those trained with small, strongly annotated datasets. To overcome these problems, we use a weakly annotated dataset together with a smaller strongly annotated dataset in a hybrid manner. We propose a systematic weakly and semi-supervised training scenario with appropriate training loss selection. Experimental results show that the proposed method can successfully localize and classify masses with less annotation effort. The results trained with only 10 strongly annotated images along with weakly annotated images were comparable to results trained from 800 strongly annotated images, with the 95% confidence interval (CI) of difference -3%-5%, in terms of the correct localization (CorLoc) measure, which is the ratio of images with intersection over union with ground truth higher than 0.5. With the same number of strongly annotated images, additional weakly annotated images can be incorporated to give a 4.5% point increase in CorLoc, from 80% to 84.50% (with 95% CIs 76%-83.75% and 81%-88%). The effects of different algorithmic details and varied amount of data are presented through ablative analysis.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging ( Volume: 38, Issue: 3, March 2019)
Page(s): 762 - 774
Date of Publication: 24 September 2018

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PubMed ID: 30273145

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