Tumor Detection, Segmentation and Classification Challenge on Automated 3D Breast Ultrasound: The TDSC-ABUS Challenge
Automatic breast ultrasound (ABUS) tumor detection, segmentation, and classification are challenged by morphological heterogeneity, low signal-to-noise ratio, and scarcity of annotated 3D data. Method: We introduce the first publicly available, high-quality, multi-center ABUS tumor benchmark dataset and the TDSC-ABUS2023 international challenge platform—enabling the first unified three-task evaluation. Our proposed framework integrates multi-scale 3D CNNs, Transformers, semi-supervised learning, and boundary-aware loss to address ABUS-specific challenges including ill-defined tumor boundaries and low contrast. Contribution/Results: Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance: 82.3% mAP@0.5 for detection, 79.6% Dice for segmentation, and 91.4% accuracy for malignancy classification—significantly outperforming baselines. This work fills critical gaps in publicly accessible ABUS benchmarks and standardized multi-task evaluation, advancing intelligent early diagnosis of breast cancer.