Sulaiman, Siti Noraini
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Automated DeepLabV3+ based model for left ventricle segmentation on short-axis late gadolinium enhancement-magnetic cardiac resonance imaging images Awang Damit, Dayang Suhaida; Sulaiman, Siti Noraini; Osman, Muhammad Khusairi; A. Karim, Noor Khairiah; Setumin, Samsul
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 14, No 3: June 2024
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v14i3.pp3362-3371

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Accurate segmentation of myocardial scar tissue on late gadolinium enhancement-magnetic cardiac resonance imaging (LGE-CMR) is exceptionally vital for clinical applications, enabling precise diagnosis and effective treatment of various cardiac diseases, such as myocardial infarction and cardiomyopathies. However, the ventricle (LV) variations in the size and shape, artifacts, and image resolution of LGE-CMR has made automatic segmentation of myocardial scar tissue more challenging. While many existing approaches delineate the LV myocardium region using multi-modal segmentation, these models may be computationally complex and suffer from misalignment. Therefore, this study proposed an automatic dual-stage DeepLabV3+ based approach tailored for myocardial scar segmentation on short-axis LGE-MRI exclusively. To segment myocardial scar tissue, the second stage employs the segmented LV chamber from the previous stage. The encoder part of the framework utilizes a MobileNetV2 and ResNet50 backbone for the first and second segmentation, respectively, aiming for optimal resolution of feature maps. Both stages tailor an improved Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling module in the DeepLabV3+ model with fine-tuned dilated atrous rates to effectively extract the LV chamber and myocardial scar from the complex LGE-MRI background. Based on the results, the proposed dual-stage network recorded an outstanding segmentation performance, with mean Dice score of 96.02% for LV chamber segmentation and 68.01% for scar tissue extraction.
Genetic algorithm-adapted activation function optimization of deep learning framework for breast mass cancer classification in mammogram images Razali, Noor Fadzilah; Isa, Iza Sazanita; Sulaiman, Siti Noraini; Osman, Muhammad Khusairi; Karim, Noor Khairiah A.; Damit, Dayang Suhaida Awang
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 15, No 3: June 2025
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v15i3.pp2820-2833

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The convolutional neural network (CNN) has been explored for mammogram cancer classification to aid radiologists. CNNs require multiple convolution and non-linearity repetitions to learn data sparsity, but deeper networks often face the vanishing gradient effect, which hinders effective learning. The rectified linear unit (ReLU) activation function activates neurons only when the output exceeds zero, limiting activation and potentially lowering performance. This study proposes an adaptive ReLU based on a genetic algorithm (GA) to determine the optimal threshold for neuron activation, thus improving the restrictive nature of the original ReLU. We compared performances on the INbreast and IPPT-mammo mammogram datasets using ReLU and leakyReLU activation functions. Results show accuracy improvements from 95.0% to 97.01% for INbreast and 84.9% to 87.4% for IPPT-mammo with ReLU and from 93.03% to 99.0% for INbreast and 84.03% to 91.06% for IPPT-mammo with leakyReLU. Significant accuracy improvements were observed for breast cancer classification in mammograms, demonstrating its potential to aid radiologists with more robust and reliable diagnostic tools.