Enhancing breast ultrasound segmentation through fine-tuning and optimization techniques: Sharp attention UNet

• Donya Khaledyan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: dkhaledy@ur.rochester.edu

  Affiliation Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-0430-8341

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• Thomas J. Marini,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Imaging Sciences, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

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• Timothy M. Baran,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Imaging Sciences, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

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• Avice O’Connell,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Imaging Sciences, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

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• Kevin Parker

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States of America, Department of Imaging Sciences, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States of America

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