Synthetic data of simulated microcalcification clusters to train and explain deep learning detection models in contrast-enhanced mammography

Astrid Van Camp; Manon Beuque; Lesley Cockmartin; Henry C. Woodruff; Nicholas W. Marshall; Marc Lobbes; Philippe Lambin; Hilde Bosmans

doi:10.1117/12.2621195

13 July 2022 Synthetic data of simulated microcalcification clusters to train and explain deep learning detection models in contrast-enhanced mammography

Astrid Van Camp, Manon Beuque, Lesley Cockmartin, Henry C. Woodruff, Nicholas W. Marshall, Marc Lobbes, Philippe Lambin, Hilde Bosmans

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Proceedings Volume 12286, 16th International Workshop on Breast Imaging (IWBI2022); 122860U (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2621195
Event: Sixteenth International Workshop on Breast Imaging, 2022, Leuven, Belgium

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Deep learning (DL) models can be trained on contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) images to detect and classify lesions in the breast. As they often put more emphasis on the masses enhanced in the recombined image, they can fail in recognizing microcalcification clusters since these are hardly enhanced and are mainly visible in the (processed) lowenergy image. Therefore, we developed a method to create synthetic data with simulated microcalcification clusters to be used for data augmentation and explainability studies when training DL models. At first 3-dimensional voxel models of simulated microcalcification clusters based on descriptors of the shape and structure were constructed. In a set of 500 simulated microcalcification clusters the range of the size and of the number of microcalcifications per cluster followed the distribution of real clusters. The insertion of these clusters in real images of non-delineated CEM cases was evaluated by radiologists. The realism score was acceptable for single view applications. Radiologists could more easily categorize synthetic clusters into benign versus malignant than real clusters. In a second phase of the work, the role of synthetic data for training and/or explaining DL models was explored. A Mask R-CNN model was trained with synthetic CEM images containing microcalcification clusters. After a training run of 100 epochs the model was found to overfit on a training set of 192 images. In an evaluation with multiple test sets, it was found that this high level of sensitivity was due to the model being capable of recognizing the image rather than the cluster. Synthetic data could be applied for more tests, such as the impact of particular features in both background and lesion models.

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Astrid Van Camp, Manon Beuque, Lesley Cockmartin, Henry C. Woodruff, Nicholas W. Marshall, Marc Lobbes, Philippe Lambin, and Hilde Bosmans "Synthetic data of simulated microcalcification clusters to train and explain deep learning detection models in contrast-enhanced mammography", Proc. SPIE 12286, 16th International Workshop on Breast Imaging (IWBI2022), 122860U (13 July 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2621195

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Data modeling

Breast

Tumor growth modeling

Mammography

RGB color model

Image processing

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