Research Area:  Machine Learning

Abstract:

Patients with breast cancer are prone to serious health-related complications with higher mortality. The primary reason might be a misinterpretation of radiologists in recognizing suspicious lesions due to technical issues in imaging qualities and heterogeneous breast densities which increases the false-(positive and negative) ratio. Early intervention is significant in establishing an up-to-date prognosis process which can successfully mitigate complications of disease with higher recovery. The manual screening of breast abnormalities through traditional machine learning schemes misinterpret the inconsistent feature-extraction process which poses a problem, i.e., patients being called-back for biopsies to eliminates the suspicions. However, several deep learning-based methods have been developed for reliable breast cancer prognosis and classification but very few of them provided a comprehensive overview of lesions segmentation. This research focusses on providing benefits and risks of breast multi-imaging modalities, segmentation schemes, feature extraction, classification of breast abnormalities through state-of-the-art deep learning approaches. This research also explores various well-known databases using ”Breast Cancer” keyword to present a comprehensive survey on existing diagnostic schemes to open-up new research challenges for radiologists and researchers to intervene as early as possible to develop an efficient and reliable breast cancer prognosis system using prominent deep learning schemes.

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Author(s) Name:  Tariq Mahmood; Jianqiang Li; Yan Pei; Faheem Akhtar; Azhar Imran; Khalil Ur Rehman

Publisher name:  IEEE

DOI:  10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3021343

Volume Information:  ( Volume: 8) Page(s): 165779 - 165809

Paper Link:   https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9184879