Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women worldwide. Because of high survival rates, there has been an increased interest in patient Quality of Life after treatment. Aesthetic results play an important role in this aspect, as these treatments can leave a mark on a patient’s self-image. Despite that, there are no standard ways of assessing aesthetic outcomes. Commonly used software such as BCCT.core or BAT require the manual annotation of keypoints, which makes them time-consuming for clinical use and can lead to result variability depending on the user. Recently, there have been attempts to leverage both traditional and Deep Learning algorithms to detect keypoints automatically. In this paper, we compare several methods for the detection of Breast Endpoints across two datasets. Furthermore, we present an extended evaluation of using these models as input for full contour prediction and aesthetic evaluation using the BCCT.core software. Overall, the YOLOv9 model, fine-tuned for this task, presents the best results considering both accuracy and usability, making this architecture the best choice for this application. The main contribution of this paper is the development of a pipeline for full breast contour prediction, which reduces clinician workload and user variability for automatic aesthetic assessment.

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Endpoint Detection in Breast Images for Automatic Classification of Breast Cancer Aesthetic Results

  • Nuno Freitas,
  • Carlos Veloso,
  • Carlos Mavioso,
  • Maria J. Cardoso,
  • Hélder P. Oliveira,
  • Jaime S. Cardoso

摘要

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women worldwide. Because of high survival rates, there has been an increased interest in patient Quality of Life after treatment. Aesthetic results play an important role in this aspect, as these treatments can leave a mark on a patient’s self-image. Despite that, there are no standard ways of assessing aesthetic outcomes. Commonly used software such as BCCT.core or BAT require the manual annotation of keypoints, which makes them time-consuming for clinical use and can lead to result variability depending on the user. Recently, there have been attempts to leverage both traditional and Deep Learning algorithms to detect keypoints automatically. In this paper, we compare several methods for the detection of Breast Endpoints across two datasets. Furthermore, we present an extended evaluation of using these models as input for full contour prediction and aesthetic evaluation using the BCCT.core software. Overall, the YOLOv9 model, fine-tuned for this task, presents the best results considering both accuracy and usability, making this architecture the best choice for this application. The main contribution of this paper is the development of a pipeline for full breast contour prediction, which reduces clinician workload and user variability for automatic aesthetic assessment.