Spatial and geometric learning for classification of breast tumors from multi-center ultrasound images: a hybrid learning approach.

Journal: BMC medical imaging
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, and ultrasound is a usual tool for early screening. Nowadays, deep learning technique is applied as an auxiliary tool to provide the predictive results for doctors to decide whether to make further examinations or treatments. This study aimed to develop a hybrid learning approach for breast ultrasound classification by extracting more potential features from local and multi-center ultrasound data.

Authors

  • Jintao Ru
    The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325000, China.
  • Zili Zhu
    Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.
  • Jialin Shi
    Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.