Breast mass classification method based on convolutional neural networks

Abstract

To classify the X-ray mammograms images as benign or malignant is a long-standing unresolved problem, due to the high similarity of different between the mammograms images. In this study, a novel convolutional neural network based X-ray breast mass classification method is proposed. The method receives original breast mass image and its transformed image simultaneously, and extracts more abundant features from the breast mass images. Though the transformed image is a simple inverse of the original image, it allows another side of the thing to be perceived by the network at a very low cost. Experiment results demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms the compared state-of-the-art classification methods for breast mass.