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Benchmarking Transfer Learning for Dense Breast Tissue Segmentation on Small Mammogram Datasets

2026-02-24 radiology and imaging Title + abstract only
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Dense breast tissue diminishes the sensitivity of mammographic screening and is a key cancer risk factor, which motivates accurate segmentation under scarce and expensive expert annotations in the medical imaging domain. Here, we benchmark the effect of backbone architecture, self-supervised pre-training (SSL), fine-tuning strategy, and loss design for dense-tissue segmentation on a small expert-labeled dataset (596 images) and an in-domain unlabeled corpus (20, 000 images), reflecting the lack ...

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