Automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) is becoming a powerful complementary imaging modality of mammography. Due to its enormous data size, the exploitation of ABUS computer-aided detection and diagnosis (CAD) systems is crucial in the time-consuming screening process. Conventional ABUS-CAD systems containing extensive image processing, hand-crafted feature extraction, and classification modules suffer from low generalization capability. Recently deep learning (DL) has been applied successfully in advanced ABUS-CAD systems given sufficient data and supplementary techniques such as data augmentation and transfer learning. In this study, we investigate underlying artificial intelligence techniques of ABUS-CAD systems with their clinical applications in the literature.
Key Words: Breast; Automated Breast Ultrasound; Artificial Intelligence; Computer-Aided Detection; Computer-Aided Diagnosiss