Using deep learning for triple-negative breast cancer classification in DCE-MRI

Triple-negative is one of the most aggressive type of breast cancer for which is also difficult to find an effective treatment. An early diagnosis and a fast and specific treatment are shown to be key aspects for a better prognosis. Current diagnosis of these cases are based on performing a biopsy. This study proposes a non-invasive medical imaging predication method, based on a deep learning architecture, to automatically classify triple-negative tumors in DCE-MRI images. Results are evaluated on an extensive public dataset for different normalizations, data augmentations, learning rates and batch sizes, reaching a state-of-the-art AUC of 0.68.