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Record W4414372291 · doi:10.1007/s00521-025-11631-6

MammoSegNet: a convolutional network analysis for segmenting tumor tissue masses in digital mammograms of breast cancer patients

2025· article· en· W4414372291 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueNeural Computing and Applications · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAI in cancer detection
Canadian institutionsUniversity of SaskatchewanLakehead University
FundersUniversity of Southern Queensland
KeywordsPreprocessorConvolutional neural networkPattern recognition (psychology)SegmentationNormalization (sociology)Feature extractionBreast cancerRobustness (evolution)MammographyPixel

Abstract

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Abstract Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related morbidity worldwide, underscoring the need for advanced diagnostic tools to improve early detection and treatment outcomes. This study introduces MammoSegNet, a novel convolutional neural network architecture optimized for precisely segmenting mammographic images. The proposed MammoSegNet incorporates Inception-ResNet blocks, Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) modules, and dilated convolutions to enable multi-scale feature extraction and efficient attention refinement while maintaining low computational complexity. MammoSegNet performance was rigorously evaluated on BCDR-D01 and INbreast datasets to examine its robustness and generalization. Using stratified fivefold cross-validation, the model was trained on BCDR-D01 and tested on the unseen INbreast dataset through Monte Carlo cross-validation. Preprocessing techniques, including Region of Interest (ROI) Isolation to concentrate on relevant areas, Normalization to standardized pixel intensities, and Data Augmentation to expand the dataset and enhance the model’s robustness, were employed. Additionally, a specialized image enhancement method called peak feature intensity transformation (PFIT) was designed to amplify diagnostic features while preserving structural integrity. Comparative evaluations confirmed MammoSegNet’s superior performance across metrics, achieving 97% accuracy on BCDR-D01 and 95% on INbreast. Statistical t-tests validated these improvements, and visual heatmaps demonstrated the model’s effectiveness in isolating tumor regions. These findings establish MammoSegNet as a promising tool for enhancing breast cancer diagnostic accuracy and reliability in medical applications.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.741
Threshold uncertainty score0.389

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.268
Teacher spread0.261 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it