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| العنوان: |
NSBR-Net: A Novel Noise Suppression and Boundary Refinement Network for Breast Tumor Segmentation in Ultrasound Images. |
| المؤلفون: |
Sun, Yue, Huang, Zhaohong, Cai, Guorong, Su, Jinhe, Gong, Zheng |
| المصدر: |
Algorithms; Jun2024, Vol. 17 Issue 6, p257, 15p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
BREAST, ULTRASONIC imaging, BREAST tumors, TRANSFORMER models, SPECKLE interference, DEEP learning, IMAGE segmentation |
| مستخلص: |
Breast tumor segmentation of ultrasound images provides valuable tumor information for early detection and diagnosis. However, speckle noise and blurred boundaries in breast ultrasound images present challenges for tumor segmentation, especially for malignant tumors with irregular shapes. Recent vision transformers have shown promising performance in handling the variation through global context modeling. Nevertheless, they are often dominated by features of large patterns and lack the ability to recognize negative information in ultrasound images, which leads to the loss of breast tumor details (e.g., boundaries and small objects). In this paper, we propose a novel noise suppression and boundary refinement network, NSBR-Net, to simultaneously alleviate speckle noise interference and blurred boundary problems of breast tumor segmentation. Specifically, we propose two innovative designs, namely, the Noise Suppression Module (NSM) and the Boundary Refinement Module (BRM). The NSM filters noise information from the coarse-grained feature maps, while the BRM progressively refines the boundaries of significant lesion objects. Our method demonstrates superior accuracy over state-of-the-art deep learning models, achieving significant improvements of 3.67% on Dataset B and 2.30% on the BUSI dataset in mDice for testing malignant tumors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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