Breast density classification with convolutional neural networks

Pablo Fonseca, Benjamin Castañeda, Ricardo Valenzuela, Jacques Wainer

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Abstract

Breast Density Classification is a problem in Medical Imaging domain that aims to assign an American College of Radiology’s BIRADS category (I-IV) to a mammogram as an indication of tissue density. This is performed by radiologists in an qualitative way, and thus subject to variations from one physician to the other. In machine learning terms it is a 4-ordered-classes classification task with highly unbalance training data, as classes are not equally distributed among populations, even with variations among ethnicities. Deep Learning techniques in general became the state-of-the-art for many imaging classification tasks, however, dependent on the availability of large datasets. This is not often the case for Medical Imaging, and thus we explore Transfer Learning and Dataset Augmentationn. Results show a very high squared weighted kappa score of 0.81 (0.95 C.I. [0.77,0.85]) which is high in comparison to the 8 medical doctors that participated in the dataset labeling 0.82 (0.95 CI [0.77, 0.87]).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProgress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications - 21st Iberoamerican Congress, CIARP 2016, Proceedings
EditorsCesar Beltran-Castanon, Fazel Famili, Ingela Nystrom
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages101-108
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9783319522760
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event21st Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2016 - Lima, Peru
Duration: 8 Nov 201611 Nov 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10125 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference21st Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2016
Country/TerritoryPeru
City Lima
Period8/11/1611/11/16

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