Breast Cancer Histological Image Classification Using Fine-Tuned Deep Network Fusion

• Breast cancer is the most common cancer type in women worldwide. Histological evaluation of the breast biopsies is a challenging task even for experienced pathologists. In this paper, we propose a fully automatic method to classify breast cancer histological images to four classes, namely normal, benign, in situ carcinoma and invasive carcinoma. The proposed method takes normalized hematoxylin and eosin stained images as input and gives the final prediction by fusing the output of two residual neural networks (ResNet) of different depth. These ResNets were first pre-trained on ImageNet images, and then fine-tuned on breast histological images. We found that our approach outperformed a previous published method by a large margin when applied on the BioImaging 2015 challenge dataset yielding an accuracy of 97.22%. Moreover, the same approach provided an excellent classification performance with an accuracy of 88.50% when applied on the ICIAR 2018 grand challenge dataset using 5-fold cross validation.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datorseende och robotik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Vision and Robotics (hsv//eng)

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Breast cancer

Classification

Deep learning

Histological images

Biopsy

Classification (of information)

Diseases

Image analysis

Medical imaging

Automatic method

Breast biopsies

Classification performance

Cross validation

Grand Challenge

Histological evaluation

Image classification

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