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SIFT-DBT: SELF-SUPERVISED INITIALIZATION AND FINE-TUNING FOR IMBALANCED DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS IMAGE CLASSIFICATION.

Yuexi DuRegina J HooleyJohn LewinNicha C Dvornek
Published in: Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (2024)
Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) is a widely used medical imaging modality for breast cancer screening and diagnosis, offering higher spatial resolution and greater detail through its 3D-like breast volume imaging capability. However, the increased data volume also introduces pronounced data imbalance challenges, where only a small fraction of the volume contains suspicious tissue. This further exacerbates the data imbalance due to the case-level distribution in real-world data and leads to learning a trivial classification model that only predicts the majority class. To address this, we propose a novel method using view-level contrastive S elf-supervised I nitialization and F ine- T uning for identifying abnormal DBT images, namely SIFT-DBT . We further introduce a patch-level multi-instance learning method to preserve spatial resolution. The proposed method achieves 92.69% volume-wise AUC on an evaluation of 970 unique studies.
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