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Globally-Aware Multiple Instance Classifier for Breast Cancer Screening

Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 11861)

Abstract

Deep learning models designed for visual classification tasks on natural images have become prevalent in medical image analysis. However, medical images differ from typical natural images in many ways, such as significantly higher resolutions and smaller regions of interest. Moreover, both the global structure and local details play important roles in medical image analysis tasks. To address these unique properties of medical images, we propose a neural network that is able to classify breast cancer lesions utilizing information from both a global saliency map and multiple local patches. The proposed model outperforms the ResNet-based baseline and achieves radiologist-level performance in the interpretation of screening mammography. Although our model is trained only with image-level labels, it is able to generate pixel-level saliency maps that provide localization of possible malignant findings.

Keywords

Deep learning Neural networks Breast cancer screening Weakly supervised localization High-resolution image classification 

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Center for Data ScienceNew York UniversityNew YorkUSA
  2. 2.Department of RadiologyNew York University School of MedicineNew YorkUSA
  3. 3.Department of Computer Science, Courant InstituteNew York UniversityNew YorkUSA
  4. 4.Facebook AI ResearchNew YorkUSA
  5. 5.CIFAR Azrieli Global ScholarTorontoCanada

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