Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for breast cancer screening.

Journal: Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Radiologists often have a hard time classifying mammography mass lesions which leads to unnecessary breast biopsies to remove suspicions and this ends up adding exorbitant expenses to an already burdened patient and health care system.

Authors

  • Hiba Chougrad
    Laboratory of Computer Science and Mathematics and their Applications (LIMA), Faculty of science, University Chouaib Doukkali, El Jadida 24000, Morocco. Electronic address: chougrad.h@ucd.ac.ma.
  • Hamid Zouaki
    Laboratory of Computer Science and Mathematics and their Applications (LIMA), Faculty of science, University Chouaib Doukkali, El Jadida 24000, Morocco.
  • Omar Alheyane
    Laboratory of Fundamental Mathematics (LMF), Faculty of science, University Chouaib Doukkali, El Jadida 24000, Morocco.