Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems can help radiologists in numerous medical tasks including classification and staging of the various diseases. The 3D tomosynthesis imaging technique adds value to the CAD systems in diagnosis and classification of the breast lesions. Several convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures have been proposed to classify the lesion shapes to the respective classes using a similar imaging method. However, not only is the black box nature of these CNN models questionable in the healthcare domain, but so is the morphological-based cancer classification, concerning the clinicians. As a result, this study proposes both a mathematically and visually explainable deep-learning-driven multiclass shape-based classification framework for the tomosynthesis breast lesion images. In this study, authors exploit eight pretrained CNN architectures for the classification task on the previously extracted regions of interests images containing the lesions. Additionally, the study also unleashes the black box nature of the deep learning models using two well-known perceptive explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) algorithms including Grad-CAM and LIME. Moreover, two mathematical-structure-based interpretability techniques, i.e., t-SNE and UMAP, are employed to investigate the pretrained models’ behavior towards multiclass feature clustering. The experimental results of the classification task validate the applicability of the proposed framework by yielding the mean area under the curve of 98.2%. The explanability study validates the applicability of all employed methods, mainly emphasizing the pros and cons of both Grad-CAM and LIME methods that can provide useful insights towards explainable CAD systems.

Shape-Based Breast Lesion Classification Using Digital Tomosynthesis Images: The Role of Explainable Artificial Intelligence / Hussain, Sardar Mehboob; Buongiorno, Domenico; Altini, Nicola; Berloco, Francesco; Prencipe, Berardino; Moschetta, Marco; Bevilacqua, Vitoantonio; Brunetti, Antonio. - In: APPLIED SCIENCES. - ISSN 2076-3417. - ELETTRONICO. - 12:12(2022). [10.3390/app12126230]

Shape-Based Breast Lesion Classification Using Digital Tomosynthesis Images: The Role of Explainable Artificial Intelligence

Hussain, Sardar Mehboob;Buongiorno, Domenico;Altini, Nicola;Berloco, Francesco;Prencipe, Berardino;Bevilacqua, Vitoantonio;Brunetti, Antonio
2022-01-01

Abstract

Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems can help radiologists in numerous medical tasks including classification and staging of the various diseases. The 3D tomosynthesis imaging technique adds value to the CAD systems in diagnosis and classification of the breast lesions. Several convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures have been proposed to classify the lesion shapes to the respective classes using a similar imaging method. However, not only is the black box nature of these CNN models questionable in the healthcare domain, but so is the morphological-based cancer classification, concerning the clinicians. As a result, this study proposes both a mathematically and visually explainable deep-learning-driven multiclass shape-based classification framework for the tomosynthesis breast lesion images. In this study, authors exploit eight pretrained CNN architectures for the classification task on the previously extracted regions of interests images containing the lesions. Additionally, the study also unleashes the black box nature of the deep learning models using two well-known perceptive explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) algorithms including Grad-CAM and LIME. Moreover, two mathematical-structure-based interpretability techniques, i.e., t-SNE and UMAP, are employed to investigate the pretrained models’ behavior towards multiclass feature clustering. The experimental results of the classification task validate the applicability of the proposed framework by yielding the mean area under the curve of 98.2%. The explanability study validates the applicability of all employed methods, mainly emphasizing the pros and cons of both Grad-CAM and LIME methods that can provide useful insights towards explainable CAD systems.
2022
Shape-Based Breast Lesion Classification Using Digital Tomosynthesis Images: The Role of Explainable Artificial Intelligence / Hussain, Sardar Mehboob; Buongiorno, Domenico; Altini, Nicola; Berloco, Francesco; Prencipe, Berardino; Moschetta, Marco; Bevilacqua, Vitoantonio; Brunetti, Antonio. - In: APPLIED SCIENCES. - ISSN 2076-3417. - ELETTRONICO. - 12:12(2022). [10.3390/app12126230]
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