Towards clinical application of artificial intelligence in ultrasound imaging

M Komatsu, A Sakai, A Dozen, K Shozu, S Yasutomi… - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Artificial intelligence (AI) is being increasingly adopted in medical research and applications.
Medical AI devices have continuously been approved by the Food and Drug Administration …

Deep learning in breast cancer imaging: A decade of progress and future directions

L Luo, X Wang, Y Lin, X Ma, A Tan… - IEEE Reviews in …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Breast cancer has reached the highest incidence rate worldwide among all malignancies
since 2020. Breast imaging plays a significant role in early diagnosis and intervention to …

[HTML][HTML] Unified focal loss: Generalising dice and cross entropy-based losses to handle class imbalanced medical image segmentation

M Yeung, E Sala, CB Schönlieb, L Rundo - Computerized Medical Imaging …, 2022 - Elsevier
Automatic segmentation methods are an important advancement in medical image analysis.
Machine learning techniques, and deep neural networks in particular, are the state-of-the-art …

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 …

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 …

Attention gate resU-Net for automatic MRI brain tumor segmentation

J Zhang, Z Jiang, J Dong, Y Hou, B Liu - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Brain tumor segmentation technology plays a pivotal role in the process of diagnosis and
treatment of MRI brain tumors. It helps doctors to locate and measure tumors, as well as …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A comparative study of pre-trained convolutional neural networks for semantic segmentation of breast tumors in ultrasound

W Gómez-Flores… - Computers in Biology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The automatic segmentation of breast tumors in ultrasound (BUS) has recently been
addressed using convolutional neural networks (CNN). These CNN-based approaches …