Rethinking the unpretentious U-net for medical ultrasound image segmentation

G Chen, L Li, J Zhang, Y Dai - Pattern Recognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Breast tumor segmentation from ultrasound images is one of the key steps that help us
characterize and localize tumor regions. However, variable tumor morphology, blurred …

AAU-net: an adaptive attention U-net for breast lesions segmentation in ultrasound images

G Chen, L Li, Y Dai, J Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Various deep learning methods have been proposed to segment breast lesions from
ultrasound images. However, similar intensity distributions, variable tumor morphologies …

Efficientu-net: a novel deep learning method for breast tumor segmentation and classification in ultrasound images

MF Dar, A Ganivada - Neural Processing Letters, 2023 - Springer
Segmentation and classification of breast tumors in ultrasound (US) images is an important
application to deep neural networks. Unet architecture is recently developed for image …

C-Net: Cascaded convolutional neural network with global guidance and refinement residuals for breast ultrasound images segmentation

G Chen, Y Dai, J Zhang - Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Background and objective Breast lesions segmentation is an important step of computer-
aided diagnosis system. However, speckle noise, heterogeneous structure, and similar …

RCA-IUnet: a residual cross-spatial attention-guided inception U-Net model for tumor segmentation in breast ultrasound imaging

NS Punn, S Agarwal - Machine Vision and Applications, 2022 - Springer
The advancements in deep learning technologies have produced immense contributions to
biomedical image analysis applications. With breast cancer being the common deadliest …

Multi-scale fusion U-net for the segmentation of breast lesions

J Li, L Cheng, T Xia, H Ni, J Li - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Breast lesion is a malignant tumor that occurs in the epithelial tissue of the breast. The early
detection of breast lesions can make patients for treatment and improve survival rate. Thus …

[HTML][HTML] Deep Learning-based Multi-stage segmentation method using ultrasound images for breast cancer diagnosis

SW Cho, NR Baek, KR Park - Journal of King Saud University-Computer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Globally, breast cancer occurs frequently in women and has the highest mortality rate.
Owing to the increased need for a rapid and reliable initial diagnosis of breast cancer …

HAU-Net: Hybrid CNN-transformer for breast ultrasound image segmentation

H Zhang, J Lian, Z Yi, R Wu, X Lu, P Ma… - … Signal Processing and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is a significant health concern that remains one of the leading causes of
mortality in women worldwide. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been shown to …

Cmu-net: a strong convmixer-based medical ultrasound image segmentation network

F Tang, L Wang, C Ning, M Xian… - 2023 IEEE 20th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
U-Net and its extensions have achieved great success in medical image segmentation.
However, due to the inherent local characteristics of ordinary convolution operations, U-Net …

CSwin-PNet: A CNN-Swin Transformer combined pyramid network for breast lesion segmentation in ultrasound images

H Yang, D Yang - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
Currently, the automatic segmentation of breast tumors based on breast ultrasound (BUS)
images is still a challenging task. Most lesion segmentation methods are implemented …