arXiv Machine Learning

Hybrid Cross-Modal Attention Network for Early Breast Cancer Detection in Low-Resource Clinical Settings

The paper introduces a Hybrid Cross-Modal Attention Network (HCMAN) that fuses mammogram images with structured clinical data using transformer-based cross‑modal attention. Trained on a locally collected dataset of 2,560 images from 1,024 Ethiopian patients, the model achieves 97.8% accuracy, 97.2% sensitivity, 98.3% specificity, and an AUC of 0.987, outperforming image‑only baselines and maintaining robustness to low‑quality images. Its lightweight design allows inference in under two seconds on a standard CPU, making it suitable for deployment in resource‑limited clinical settings.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 25

OncoVision: Integrating Mammography and Clinical Data through Attention-Driven Multimodal AI for Enhanced Breast Cancer Diagnosis

OncoVision is a privileged‑information training framework that learns from mammography images and clinical data during training but performs inference using only mammographic images. It employs an attention‑based encoder‑decoder to jointly segment masses, calcifications, axillary findings, and breast tissue, and predicts ten structured clinical features such as BI‑RADS. Two late‑fusion strategies (Independent and Dependent) integrate imaging, radiomic, and clinical information to improve diagnostic precision, and a retrospective multi‑reader study showed higher diagnostic confidence, reduced reading time, and segmentation accuracy comparable to or better than radiologists.

By Istiak Ahmed, Galib Ahmed, K. Shahriar Sanjid, Md. Tanzim Hossain, Md. Nishan Khan, Md. Misbah Khan, Md. Arifur Rahman, Sheikh Anisul Haque, Sharmin Akhtar Rupa, Mohammed Mejbahuddin Mia, Mahmud Hasan Mostofa Kamal, Md. Mostafa Kamal Sarker, M. Monir Uddin
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

BiLoG-Net: A Bi-Context Location-Guided Network for Breast Mass Segmentation and Malignancy Classification in Mammography

arXiv:2607. 10188v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Breast cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed malignancy among women worldwide, yet accurate detection and characterization of breast masses in mammography remain challenging due to subtle intensity variations, heterogeneous tissue densities, and indistinct lesion boundaries that complicate radiological interpretation.

By Abu Fatema Mohammad Abdun Noor, Md Imam Ahasan, Md Samiul Ahasan, Kah Ong Michael Goh, S M Hasan Mahmud, Raihana Zannat
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 24

M3D-Net: Hierarchical Coordination of Spatial Context, Feature Reuse, and Differential Attention for Mammography Classification

M3D‑Net is a mammography encoder that hierarchically coordinates multi‑scale coordinate attention, bounded dynamic feature reuse, and differential attention through resolution‑aware operator placement. It preserves earlier features within stages, integrates local and global context via coordinate‑aware aggregation, and applies differential attention at coarse resolutions. In image‑only classification on AISSLab mammography and an adapted image‑clinical model on BrEaST ultrasound, M3D‑Net achieves the highest validation accuracy and lowest endpoint cross‑entropy loss compared to EdgeNeXt, RepViT, and TransXNet, with accuracies of 97.78% and 80.39% respectively.

By Zheng Yu, Xinhang Li, Jiabao Gao, Boyang Wang, Xiang Li
arXiv AI
Sep 17

A Lightweight CNN Integrated Compact Convolutional Transformer for Multi-Scale Feature Learning and reducing computational complexity for breast cancer mammography image detection and classification

The paper presents a lightweight CNN‑integrated Compact Convolutional Transformer (CCT) designed for multi‑scale feature learning in breast cancer mammography. With only 250,435 parameters, the model achieved 99‑100% accuracy across three datasets using 5‑fold cross‑validation, demonstrating robust generalization. Explainable AI components were added to clarify the classification process, aiming to increase clinical trust in resource‑constrained settings.

By Md Taimur Ahad (Department of Management North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh), Ainuddin Ahmed (Department of Management North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh)
arXiv AI
Aug 18

DualMiT-Net: Local-Global Transformer-Convolutional Fusion for Breast Mass Segmentation in Mammographic Regions of Interest

arXiv:2608. 15019v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Breast mass segmentation is an important step in computer-aided mammography, but it remains difficult because masses can have low contrast, irregular shapes, and boundaries that blend with surrounding breast tissue.

By Alibek Kamiluly, Milana Muratova, Yash Patel, Fan Li
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

An Attention-Guided Global and Local Fusion Framework for Lesion-Focused Image Classification

The paper introduces an attention‑guided fusion framework that combines global and lesion‑focused local information for image classification. Using a three‑branch architecture built on DenseNet‑121, the model generates attention maps with Grad‑CAM, refines local features with CBAM, and adaptively fuses the two representations. Experiments on synthetic and real datasets, including skin, guava leaf, and grape leaf images, show that the fusion branch outperforms individual branches, achieving up to 97.75% accuracy on skin lesions and 99.64% on guava leaves.

By Mst Shafia Tasnima, Md Samaun Elaheea, Tanjim Taharat Aurpab, Md Musfique Anwar
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

Solving the Needle-in-a-Haystack Problem in Mammography Vision-Language Model with Differentiable Subset Sampling

The paper introduces TopKSigLIP, a vision‑language model tailored for mammography that tackles two key challenges: high‑resolution imaging and homogeneous radiology reports. It replaces standard CLIP training with a TopK‑Patch module that selects sparse high‑resolution patches likely to contain lesions, and a Sup‑sigmoid loss that uses soft labels from structured data instead of contrastive loss. TopKSigLIP outperforms existing open‑source mammography and general medical VLMs on zero‑shot tasks such as density assessment, BI‑RADS classification, finding subtyping, and cancer prediction, while also providing better lesion localization than Grad‑CAM.

By Young Seok Jeon, Beatrice Brown-Mulry, Rohan Satya Isaac, Anjana Dissanayaka, Theo Dapamede, Mohammadreza Chavoshi, Judy Gichoya, Hari Trivedi
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 12

BreastMammo and DenseMammo: Benchmarks for Mammography Domain Generalization

arXiv:2608. 10271v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Breast density classification is a critical component of breast cancer risk assessment, yet AI models often struggle to generalize across clinical sites due to vendor-specific acquisition styles.

By Hongyi Pan, Gorkem Durak, Halil Ertugrul Aktas, Andrea Mia Bejar, Mustafa Ege Seker, Nebile Alibeyoglu, Rumeysa Guclu, Rana Gunoz Comert Bozkurt, Sibel Ozkan Gurdal, Neslihan Cabioglu, Beyza Ozcinar, Ravza Yilmaz, Vahit Ozmen, Erkin Aribal, Sukru Mehmet Erturk, Yalda Zafari, Mohamed Mabrok, Kayhan Batmanghelich, Mohammad Yaqub, Ziyue Xu, Ulas Bagci
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 7

Token-Based Dual-view Fusion and Adaptation of Large Vision Models for Breast Cancer Classification

Accurate breast cancer classification from mammography requires effective integration of complementary information from craniocaudal (CC) and mediolateral oblique (MLO) views, which provide a more complete characterization of breast abnormalities. However, existing multi-view learning approaches typically rely on feature-level aggregation or single-stage cross-attention, which can entangle view-specific and shared representations and restrict interaction to limited network depths.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

Performance of Machine Learning Classification in Sonomammogram Images using BI-RADS

This study evaluates the classification accuracy of six modern deep‑learning architectures—VGG19, ResNet50, GoogleNet, ConvNeXt, EfficientNet, and Vision Transformers—on breast ultrasound images categorized by BI‑RADS. Using 2,945 training images and 936 validation images from 1,540 patients, the models were tested in full fine‑tuning, linear evaluation, and training‑from‑scratch settings. The best performance was achieved with full fine‑tuning, yielding 76.39 % accuracy and a 67.94 % F1 score.

By Malitha Gunawardhana, Norbert Zolek