Breast ultrasound image segmentation: a survey

Q Huang, Y Luo, Q Zhang - … journal of computer assisted radiology and …, 2017 - Springer
Purpose Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women worldwide.
Ultrasound imaging is one of the most frequently used diagnostic tools to detect and classify …

Computer-aided diagnosis: A survey with bibliometric analysis

R Takahashi, Y Kajikawa - International journal of medical informatics, 2017 - Elsevier
Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) has been a promising area of research over the last two
decades. However, CAD is a very complicated subject because it involves a number of …

Medical breast ultrasound image segmentation by machine learning

Y Xu, Y Wang, J Yuan, Q Cheng, X Wang, PL Carson - Ultrasonics, 2019 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer, which alone accounts for 30% all
new cancer diagnoses for women, posing a threat to women's health. Segmentation of …

Attention-enriched deep learning model for breast tumor segmentation in ultrasound images

A Vakanski, M Xian, PE Freer - Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Incorporating human domain knowledge for breast tumor diagnosis is challenging because
shape, boundary, curvature, intensity or other common medical priors vary significantly …

Channel attention module with multiscale grid average pooling for breast cancer segmentation in an ultrasound image

H Lee, J Park, JY Hwang - IEEE transactions on ultrasonics …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Breast cancer accounts for the second-largest number of deaths in women around the world,
and more than 8% of women will suffer from the disease in their lifetime. Mortality due to …

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 …

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 …

Automatic superpixel-based segmentation method for breast ultrasound images

MI Daoud, AA Atallah, F Awwad, M Al-Najjar… - Expert Systems with …, 2019 - Elsevier
Automatic and accurate breast ultrasound (BUS) image segmentation is crucial to achieve
effective ultrasound-based computer aided diagnosis (CAD) systems for breast cancer …

Medical image segmentation algorithm based on multilayer boundary perception-self attention deep learning model

FP An, J Liu - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2021 - Springer
Traditional medical image segmentation methods have problems such as low segmentation
accuracy and low adaptive ability. Therefore, many scholars have proposed a medical …

Methods for the segmentation and classification of breast ultrasound images: a review

AE Ilesanmi, U Chaumrattanakul, SS Makhanov - Journal of ultrasound, 2021 - Springer
Purpose Breast ultrasound (BUS) is one of the imaging modalities for the diagnosis and
treatment of breast cancer. However, the segmentation and classification of BUS images is a …