PRISM-Net: Patient-specific reference-guided inter-breast symmetry matching for three-class breast DCE-MRI classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26799v1
• Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:38:59 GMT
• Title: PRISM-Net: Patient-specific reference-guided inter-breast symmetry matching for three-class breast DCE-MRI classification
• Abstract summary: We propose PRISM-Net, a registration-free bilateral framework that leverages contralateral breast features as patient-specific references for background-aware representation learning.<n> PRISM-Net integrates bilateral feature matching and asymmetry-aware attention to establish adaptive inter-breast correspondence and enhance representations of discriminative asymmetric patterns.
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• Abstract: Breast DCE-MRI AI is increasingly being explored for breast-level classification of no-lesion, benign, and malignant findings, beyond conventional lesion-centered diagnosis. Within this broader diagnostic scope, however, patient-specific background variability remains a major source of imaging confounding across classification tasks. Existing approaches predominantly focus on unilateral or lesion-centric analysis, whereas bilateral methods offer limited explicit modeling of spatially adaptive cross-breast correspondence. We propose PRISM-Net, a registration-free bilateral framework that leverages contralateral breast features as patient-specific references for background-aware representation learning. PRISM-Net integrates bilateral feature matching and asymmetry-aware attention to establish adaptive inter-breast correspondence and enhance representations of discriminative asymmetric patterns. On ODELIA, Macro AUC, Micro AUC, and quadratic weighted kappa were $84.11 \pm 2.33$, $90.64 \pm 1.61$, and $60.94 \pm 5.64$ on the in-distribution test set, and $68.51 \pm 4.54$, $80.74 \pm 2.68$, and $43.45 \pm 7.10$ on the held-out institution, respectively, outperforming the evaluated baseline methods across the primary evaluation metrics. PRISM-Net further demonstrated performance on independent institutional and background-complexity evaluations. Ablation experiments revealed that both bilateral relation modeling and asymmetry-aware reweighting contributed to improved classification performance. These findings highlight patient-specific bilateral reference modeling as a clinically grounded strategy for DCE-MRI interpretation, improving asymmetric pattern discrimination through explicit modeling of background complexity.

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