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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2023

Convolutional Networks and Transformers for Mammography Classification: An Experimental Study.

Marco Cantone, Claudio Marrocco, Francesco Tortorella, Alessandro Bria

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Marco CantoneDepartment of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Latium, 03043 Cassino, FR, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-6225-6680
Claudio MarroccoDepartment of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Latium, 03043 Cassino, FR, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0840-7350
Francesco TortorellaDepartment of Information and Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano, SA, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5033-9323
Alessandro BriaDepartment of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Latium, 03043 Cassino, FR, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2895-6544

Funding

Cancer Research UK 28396
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have received a large share of research in mammography image analysis due to their capability of extracting hierarchical features directly from raw data. Recently, Vision Transformers are emerging as viable alternative to CNNs in medical imaging, in some cases performing on par or better than their convolutional counterparts. In this work, we conduct an extensive experimental study to compare the most recent CNN and Vision Transformer architectures for whole mammograms classification. We selected, trained and tested 33 different models, 19 convolutional- and 14 transformer-based, on the largest publicly available mammography image database OMI-DB. We also performed an analysis of the performance at eight different image resolutions and considering all the individual lesion categories in isolation (masses, calcifications, focal asymmetries, architectural distortions). Our findings confirm the potential of visual transformers, which performed on par with traditional CNNs like ResNet, but at the same time show a superiority of modern convolutional networks like EfficientNet.

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MammographyNeural Networks, ComputerDatabases, FactualImage Processing, Computer-Assistedcomputer aided diagnosisconvolutional networksmammography classificationvision transformers

Identifiers

PMID36772268
PMCPMC9921468

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