Research Article

Automated Segmentation of Mass Regions in DBT Images Using a Dilated DCNN Approach

Table 1

The proposed dilated DCNN configuration and parameters.

LayerTypeConfigurationDilationNumber of parameters

1Convolutional3 × 3 × 1 × 3212256
Batch normalization
ReLU

2Convolutional3 × 3 × 32 × 32118464
Batch normalization
ReLU

3Convolutional3 × 3 × 32 × 32236928
Batch normalization
ReLU

4Convolutional3 × 3 × 32 × 32473856
Batch normalization
ReLU

5Convolutional3 × 3 × 32 × 328147712
Batch normalization
ReLU

6Convolutional3 × 3 × 32 × 3216295424
Batch normalization
ReLU

7Convolutional3 × 3 × 32 × 321295424
Batch normalization
ReLU

8Convolutional1 × 1 × 32 × 2116384