BreastSegNet: Multi-label Segmentation of Breast MRI

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13604v1
• Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 02:16:00 GMT
• Title: BreastSegNet: Multi-label Segmentation of Breast MRI
• Authors: Qihang Li, Jichen Yang, Yaqian Chen, Yuwen Chen, Hanxue Gu, Lars J. Grimm, Maciej A. Mazurowski,
• Abstract summary: BreastSegNet is a multi-label segmentation algorithm for breast MRI.<n>It covers nine anatomical labels: fibroglandular tissue (FGT), vessel, muscle, bone, lesion, lymph node, heart, liver, and implant.<n>nnU-Net ResEncM achieves the highest average Dice scores of 0.694 across all labels.
• Score: 12.138053457221002
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Breast MRI provides high-resolution imaging critical for breast cancer screening and preoperative staging. However, existing segmentation methods for breast MRI remain limited in scope, often focusing on only a few anatomical structures, such as fibroglandular tissue or tumors, and do not cover the full range of tissues seen in scans. This narrows their utility for quantitative analysis. In this study, we present BreastSegNet, a multi-label segmentation algorithm for breast MRI that covers nine anatomical labels: fibroglandular tissue (FGT), vessel, muscle, bone, lesion, lymph node, heart, liver, and implant. We manually annotated a large set of 1123 MRI slices capturing these structures with detailed review and correction from an expert radiologist. Additionally, we benchmark nine segmentation models, including U-Net, SwinUNet, UNet++, SAM, MedSAM, and nnU-Net with multiple ResNet-based encoders. Among them, nnU-Net ResEncM achieves the highest average Dice scores of 0.694 across all labels. It performs especially well on heart, liver, muscle, FGT, and bone, with Dice scores exceeding 0.73, and approaching 0.90 for heart and liver. All model code and weights are publicly available, and we plan to release the data at a later date.

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