Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 58, Issue 4, 0410007(2021)

Mass Classification of Breast Mammogram Based on Attention Mechanism and Transfer Learning

Wenhui Xu, Yijian Pei*, Donglin Gao, Jiude Zhu, and Yunkai Liu
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  • School of Information, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650500, China
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    Workflow of the proposed method
    Mammograms and the pixel-level lesion labels of different views (L-CC, L-MLO, R-CC and R-MLO) from CBIS-DDSM dataset
    Images from different datasets. (a)Local breast mass patch image from dataset P; (b)whole breast mammogram from CBIS-DDSM dataset;(c)global breast mammogram from dataset G
    Residual block structure in ResNet50 Network
    Structure of channel attention module
    Structure of spatial attention module
    Mammogram from dataset G and heat maps of the corresponding Grad-CAM. (a)Sample 1(benign); (b)sample 2(benign);(c)sample 3(malignant);(d)sample 4(malignant);(e)sample 5(malignant)
    • Table 1. Comparison of classification performance of different network models on patch dataset P

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      Table 1. Comparison of classification performance of different network models on patch dataset P

      ModelSensitivitySpecificityAccuracyAUC
      VGG16VGG16+CBAM0.76190.76490.77480.80730.76980.78310.83950.8503
      Inception V3Inception V3+CBAM0.76870.76990.77920.78060.77510.77720.84030.8477
      ResNet500.75510.78350.77240.8348
      Proposed network0.79930.80740.80420.8607
    • Table 2. Comparison of classification performance of different network models and different transfer learning methods on global breast dataset G

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      Table 2. Comparison of classification performance of different network models and different transfer learning methods on global breast dataset G

      MethodTransfer learningSensitivitySpecificityAccuracyAUC
      VGG16ImageNetPatch data0.68350.71430.72720.73800.70970.72880.75990.7749
      VGG16+CBAMImageNetPatch data0.71940.72780.71770.74080.71840.73350.78850.7913
      Inception V3ImageNetPatch data0.66190.71220.67940.74160.67240.72980.75410.7941
      Inception V3+CBAMImageNetPatch data0.68350.74820.73210.69860.71260.71840.79540.7656
      ResNet50ImageNetPatch data0.71220.74820.74640.70370.73270.73410.78810.7929
      Proposed networkImageNetPatch data0.73500.76980.74560.74160.74140.75290.79820.8081
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    Wenhui Xu, Yijian Pei, Donglin Gao, Jiude Zhu, Yunkai Liu. Mass Classification of Breast Mammogram Based on Attention Mechanism and Transfer Learning[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2021, 58(4): 0410007

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    Paper Information

    Category: Image Processing

    Received: Jun. 9, 2020

    Accepted: Aug. 6, 2020

    Published Online: Feb. 8, 2021

    The Author Email: Pei Yijian (pei3p@ynu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP202158.0410007

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