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Breast cancer histology classification using Deep Residual Networks

1 Jul 2018Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2018 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE 2018 7archive 2025-07-28

Kamalakkannan Ravi, Sakthivel Selvaraj, JM Poorneshwaran, Keerthi Ram, Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

In this work, in order to improve the computer aided diagnosis systems’ performance on histopathological image analysis, we have proposed an approach with image pre-processing followed by a deep learning method to classify the breast cancer histology images into four classes; (i) normal tissue, (ii) benign lesion, (iii) in-situ carcinoma, and (iv) invasive carcinoma. The images are preprocessed for intensity and stain normalization using histogram equalization method. The Fine-tuning ConvNet transfer learning method is used with ResNet152 to train and classify the images. This proposed approach yields an average fivefold cross validation accuracy of 83%, a substantial improvement over the state-of-the-art.

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Breast Cancer Histology Image ClassificationClassificationTransfer Learning

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Breast Cancer Histology Image Classification ICIAR 2018 Grand Challenge on Breast Cancer Histology Images ResNet-152 Accuracy (% ) 83 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report

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