Breast density classification with deep convolutional neural networks

Nan Wu, Krzysztof J. Geras, Yiqiu Shen, Jingyi Su, S. Gene Kim, Eric Kim, Stacey Wolfson, Linda Moy, Kyunghyun Cho

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Abstract

Breast density classification is an essential part of breast cancer screening. Although a lot of prior work considered this problem as a task for learning algorithms, to our knowledge, all of them used small and not clinically realistic data both for training and evaluation of their models. In this work, we explored the limits of this task with a data set coming from over 200,000 breast cancer screening exams. We used this data to train and evaluate a strong convolutional neural network classifier. In a reader study, we found that our model can perform this task comparably to a human expert.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2018 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages6682-6686
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9781538646588
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 10 2018
Event2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2018 - Calgary, Canada
Duration: Apr 15 2018Apr 20 2018

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume2018-April
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Other

Other2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2018
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityCalgary
Period4/15/184/20/18

Keywords

  • Breast cancer screening
  • Breast density
  • Convolutional neural networks
  • Deep learning
  • Mammography

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Signal Processing
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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