C-Net: Cascaded convolutional neural network with global guidance and refinement residuals for breast ultrasound images segmentation.

Journal: Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Breast lesions segmentation is an important step of computer-aided diagnosis system. However, speckle noise, heterogeneous structure, and similar intensity distributions bring challenges for breast lesion segmentation.

Authors

  • Gongping Chen
    Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, 350005, People's Republic of China.
  • Yu Dai
    College of Software, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.
  • Jianxun Zhang
    Department of Automation, Xi'an Institute of High-Technology, Xi'an 710025, China zhang200735@163.com.