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3D Inception U‐net with Asymmetric Loss for Cancer Detection in Automated Breast Ultrasound
Author(s) -
Wang Yi,
Qin Chenchen,
Lin Chuanlu,
Lin Di,
Xu Min,
Luo Xiao,
Wang Tianfu,
Li Anhua,
Ni Dong
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1002/mp.14389
Subject(s) - breast cancer , false positive paradox , cancer , computer science , false positives and false negatives , cancer detection , mammography , medicine , convolutional neural network , artificial intelligence
Purpose Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer‐related deaths for women all over the world. Recently, automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) has become a new and promising screening modality for whole breast examination. However, reviewing volumetric ABUS is time‐consuming and lesions could be missed during the examination. Therefore, computer‐aided cancer detection in ABUS volume is extremely expected to help clinician for the breast cancer screening. Methods We develop a novel end‐to‐end 3D convolutional network for automated cancer detection in ABUS volume, in order to accelerate reviewing and meanwhile to provide high detection sensitivity with low false positives (FPs). Specifically, an efficient 3D Inception Unet‐style architecture with fusion deep supervision mechanism is proposed to attain decent detection performance. In addition, a novel asymmetric loss is designed to help the network balancing false positive and false negative regions, thus improving detection sensitivity for small cancerous lesions. Results The efficacy of our network was extensively validated on a dataset including 196 patients with 661 cancer regions. Our network obtained a detection sensitivity of 95.1% with 3.0 FPs per ABUS volume. Furthermore, the average inference time of the network was 0.1 second per volume, which largely shortens the conventional reviewing time. Conclusions The proposed network provides efficient and accurate cancer detection scheme using ABUS volume, and may assist clinicians for more efficient breast cancer screening.