IEEE Access,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
12, P. 41942 - 41953
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
Breast
tumor
is
a
common
female
physiological
disease,
and
the
malignant
one
of
main
fatal
diseases
women.
Accurate
examination
assessment
shape
can
facilitate
subsequent
treatment
improve
cure
rate.
With
development
deep
learning,
automatic
detection
systems
are
designed
to
assist
doctors
in
diagnosis.
However,
blurry
edges,
poor
visual
quality,
irregular
shapes
breast
tumors
pose
significant
challenges
design
highly
efficient
system.
In
addition,
lack
publicly
available
labeled
data
major
obstacle
developing
accurate
robust
learning
models
for
detection.
To
overcome
aforementioned
issues,
we
propose
SRU-PMT+,
pseudo-label
reusing
Mean-Teacher
architecture
based
on
squeeze-and-excitation
residual
(SE-Res)
attention.
We
utilize
proposed
segmentation
network,
SRU-Net++,
generate
pseudo-labels
unlabeled
data,
guide
student
model
using
generated
groundtruth,
improving
accuracy
robustness
model.
Our
semi-supervised
method
has
been
rigorously
evaluated
dataset,
i.e.,
Ultrasound
Images
(BUSI)
dataset.
Results
show
that
our
outperforms
current
methods
good
performance.
Importantly,
strategy
improves
performance
segmentation.
Scientific Reports,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
15(1)
Published: Jan. 6, 2025
This
study
utilizes
the
Breast
Ultrasound
Image
(BUSI)
dataset
to
present
a
deep
learning
technique
for
breast
tumor
segmentation
based
on
modified
UNet
architecture.
To
improve
accuracy,
model
integrates
attention
mechanisms,
such
as
Convolutional
Block
Attention
Module
(CBAM)
and
Non-Local
Attention,
with
advanced
encoder
architectures,
including
ResNet,
DenseNet,
EfficientNet.
These
mechanisms
enable
focus
more
effectively
relevant
areas,
resulting
in
significant
performance
improvements.
Models
incorporating
outperformed
those
without,
reflected
superior
evaluation
metrics.
The
effects
of
Dice
Loss
Binary
Cross-Entropy
(BCE)
model's
were
also
analyzed.
maximized
overlap
between
predicted
actual
masks,
leading
precise
boundary
delineation,
while
BCE
achieved
higher
recall,
improving
detection
areas.
Grad-CAM
visualizations
further
demonstrated
that
attention-based
models
enhanced
interpretability
by
accurately
highlighting
findings
denote
combining
framework
can
yield
reliable
accurate
segmentation.
Future
research
will
explore
use
multi-modal
imaging,
real-time
deployment
clinical
applications,
performance.
Diagnostics,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
14(3), P. 269 - 269
Published: Jan. 26, 2024
Breast
cancer
is
one
of
the
most
common
cancers
in
world,
especially
among
women.
tumor
segmentation
a
key
step
identification
and
localization
breast
region,
which
has
important
clinical
significance.
Inspired
by
swin-transformer
model
with
powerful
global
modeling
ability,
we
propose
semantic
framework
named
Swin-Net
for
ultrasound
images,
combines
Transformer
Convolutional
Neural
Networks
(CNNs)
to
effectively
improve
accuracy
segmentation.
Firstly,
our
utilizes
encoder
stronger
learning
can
extract
features
images
more
precisely.
In
addition,
two
new
modules
are
introduced
method,
including
feature
refinement
enhancement
module
(RLM)
hierarchical
multi-scale
fusion
(HFM),
given
that
influence
ultrasonic
image
acquisition
methods
characteristics
lesions
difficult
capture.
Among
them,
RLM
used
further
refine
enhance
map
learned
transformer
encoder.
The
HFM
process
high-level
low-level
details,
so
as
achieve
effective
cross-layer
fusion,
suppress
noise,
performance.
Experimental
results
show
performs
significantly
better
than
advanced
on
public
benchmark
datasets.
particular,
it
achieves
an
absolute
improvement
1.4–1.8%
Dice.
Additionally,
provide
dataset
test
effect
model,
demonstrating
validity
method.
summary,
proposed
makes
significant
advancements
segmentation,
providing
valuable
exploration
research
applications
this
domain.
Bioengineering,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
11(9), P. 945 - 945
Published: Sept. 21, 2024
This
study
introduces
a
sophisticated
neural
network
structure
for
segmenting
breast
tumors.
It
achieves
this
by
combining
pretrained
Vision
Transformer
(ViT)
model
with
UNet
framework.
The
architecture,
commonly
employed
biomedical
image
segmentation,
is
further
enhanced
depthwise
separable
convolutional
blocks
to
decrease
computational
complexity
and
parameter
count,
resulting
in
better
efficiency
less
overfitting.
ViT,
renowned
its
robust
feature
extraction
capabilities
utilizing
self-attention
processes,
efficiently
captures
the
overall
context
within
images,
surpassing
performance
of
conventional
networks.
By
using
ViT
as
encoder
our
model,
we
take
advantage
extensive
representations
acquired
from
datasets,
major
enhancement
model’s
ability
generalize
train
efficiently.
suggested
has
exceptional
cancers
medical
highlighting
advantages
integrating
transformer-based
encoders
efficient
topologies.
hybrid
methodology
emphasizes
transformers
field
processing
establishes
new
standard
accuracy
activities
related
tumor
segmentation.