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Table 3 Comparison of our work with other studies concerning with BPE segmentation with CNN-based models

From: Generalizable attention U-Net for segmentation of fibroglandular tissue and background parenchymal enhancement in breast DCE-MRI

REF

Approach

Model

Dataset

MRI scanners

DSC

r

Comment

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Segmentaion of FGT from native images, transfer of the mask to subtraction images. Segmentation of BPE based on mean and std of intenisty values

3D V-Net

794 patients with unilateral breast cancer (healthy breast was segmented)

3.0 T:

Siemens Verio

Phillips Ingenia

1.5 T:

GE Signa

Breast 0.91 ± 0.04

FGT 0.85 ± 0.11

Breast: 0.96

FGT: 0.93

3.0 T Siemens and Phillips data in the training and testing set, seprate test set with GE 1.5 T data

Evaluation of BPE segmentation not reported

29

Segmentation of BPE from subtraction images

2D U-Net

38 patients (slices not depicting tumor)

3.0 T:

Siemens Skyra

Overall: 0.76

-

Only BPE segmentation

Our work

Segmentation of FGT from native images, independent segmentation of BPE from subtraction images

2D attention U-Net

88 patients (slices not depicting tumor)

1.5 T:

Siemens, Sola

3.0 T:

Siemens Skyra

(two hospitals)

FGT model:

Breast 0.950 ± 0.002

FGT 0.820 ± 0.005

(0.864 ± 0.004 wDSC)

BPE model:

Breast 0.927 ± 0.001

BPE 0.628 ± 0.018

(0.715 ± 0.015 wDSC)

FGT model:

Breast 0.999 ± 0.001

FGT% 0.985 ± 0.001

BPE model:

Breast 0.992 ± 0.001

BPE% 0.963 ± 0.004

Data coming from only one scanner used for model training and validation