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 …

HCTNet: A hybrid CNN-transformer network for breast ultrasound image segmentation

Q He, Q Yang, M Xie - Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Automatic breast ultrasound image segmentation helps radiologists to improve the accuracy
of breast cancer diagnosis. In recent years, the convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have …

RRCNet: Refinement residual convolutional network for breast ultrasound images segmentation

G Chen, Y Dai, J Zhang - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2023 - Elsevier
Breast ultrasound images segmentation is one of the key steps in clinical auxiliary diagnosis
of breast cancer, which seriously threatens women's health. Currently, deep learning …

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 …

Global guidance network for breast lesion segmentation in ultrasound images

C Xue, L Zhu, H Fu, X Hu, X Li, H Zhang… - Medical image analysis, 2021 - Elsevier
Automatic breast lesion segmentation in ultrasound helps to diagnose breast cancer, which
is one of the dreadful diseases that affect women globally. Segmenting breast regions …

Breast ultrasound image segmentation: a coarse‐to‐fine fusion convolutional neural network

K Wang, S Liang, S Zhong, Q Feng, Z Ning… - Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Breast ultrasound (BUS) image segmentation plays a crucial role in computer‐
aided diagnosis systems for BUS examination, which are useful for improved accuracy of …

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 …

SMU-Net: Saliency-guided morphology-aware U-Net for breast lesion segmentation in ultrasound image

Z Ning, S Zhong, Q Feng, W Chen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning methods, especially convolutional neural networks, have been successfully
applied to lesion segmentation in breast ultrasound (BUS) images. However, pattern …

Boundary-rendering network for breast lesion segmentation in ultrasound images

R Huang, M Lin, H Dou, Z Lin, Q Ying, X Jia, W Xu… - Medical image …, 2022 - Elsevier
Breast Ultrasound (BUS) has proven to be an effective tool for the early detection of cancer
in the breast. A lesion segmentation provides identification of the boundary, shape, and …

Residual feedback network for breast lesion segmentation in ultrasound image

K Wang, S Liang, Y Zhang - … Strasbourg, France, September 27–October 1 …, 2021 - Springer
Accurate lesion segmentation in breast ultrasound (BUS) images is of great significance for
the clinical diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. However, precise segmentation on …