SEGMENTATION OF CANCER MASSES ON BREAST ULTRASOUND IMAGES USING MODIFIED U-NET

Ihssane Khallassi

ihssanekhallassi639@gmail.com
Electronic Systems Sensors and Nanobiotechnology, National School of Arts and Crafts, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco (Morocco)
https://orcid.org/0009-0006-7965-0269

My Hachem El Yousfi Alaoui


Electronic Systems Sensors and Nanobiotechnology, National School of Arts and Crafts, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco (Morocco)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4285-0540

Abdelilah Jilbab


Electronic Systems Sensors and Nanobiotechnology, National School of Arts and Crafts, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco (Morocco)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1577-9040

Abstract

Breast cancer causes a huge number of women’s deaths every year. The accurate localization of a breast lesion is a crucial stage. The segmentation of breast ultrasound images participates in the improvement of the process of detection of breast anomalies. An automatic approach of segmentation of breast ultrasound images is presented in this paper, the proposed model is a modified u-net called Attention Residual U-net, designed to help radiologists in their clinical examination to determine adequately the limitation of breast tumors. Attention Residual U-net is a combination of existing models (Convolutional Neural Network U-net, the Attention Gate Mechanism and the Residual Neural Network). Public breast ultrasound images dataset of Baheya hospital in Egypt is used in this work. Dice coefficient, Jaccard index and Accuracy are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed model on the test set. Attention residual u-net can significantly give a dice coefficient = 90%, Jaccard index = 76% and Accuracy = 90%. The proposed model is compared with two other breast segmentation methods on the same dataset. The results show that the modified U-net model was able to achieve accurate segmentation of breast lesions in breast ultrasound images.


Keywords:

convolutional neural network, segmentation, u-net, residual neural network

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2023-09-30

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Khallassi, I., El Yousfi Alaoui, M. H., & Jilbab, A. (2023). SEGMENTATION OF CANCER MASSES ON BREAST ULTRASOUND IMAGES USING MODIFIED U-NET . Informatyka, Automatyka, Pomiary W Gospodarce I Ochronie Środowiska, 13(3), 11–15. https://doi.org/10.35784/iapgos.5319

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Ihssane Khallassi 
ihssanekhallassi639@gmail.com
Electronic Systems Sensors and Nanobiotechnology, National School of Arts and Crafts, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco Morocco
https://orcid.org/0009-0006-7965-0269

Authors

My Hachem El Yousfi Alaoui 

Electronic Systems Sensors and Nanobiotechnology, National School of Arts and Crafts, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco Morocco
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4285-0540

Authors

Abdelilah Jilbab 

Electronic Systems Sensors and Nanobiotechnology, National School of Arts and Crafts, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco Morocco
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1577-9040

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