Subtraction-Based Tumor Segmentation and Lesion-Centered pCR Prediction for the MAMA-MIA Challenge

📅 2026-08-29
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研究通过基于减法的图像处理和模型集成方法,解决了乳腺MRI中肿瘤分割及病理性完全缓解预测问题。
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We describe the submission of team FME to the MAMA-MIA Challenge, which evaluated primary tumor segmentation and prediction of pathological complete response (pCR) from pretreatment dynamic contrast-enhanced breast MRI on an external multi-country cohort. For segmentation, we trained a five-fold residual-encoder nnU-Net ensemble using only the first post-contrast minus pre-contrast image, combined with mirroring test-time augmentation and largest-connected-component filtering. For pCR prediction, we ensembled 25 pretrained 3D video classifiers trained on lesion-centred crops from the pre-contrast and first two post-contrast volumes. FME ranked second in both tasks. The segmentation method achieved a combined performance-fairness score of 0.882, with Dice 0.713 and normalized Hausdorff distance 0.099. The pCR method achieved a combined score of 0.664, balanced accuracy of 0.541, and equalized-odds disparity of 0.212. The results indicate that subtraction-based input and ensembling support robust tumor segmentation under cross-site domain shift, whereas pCR prediction from baseline DCE-MRI alone remains limited. For the submission repository, see https://github.com/FraunhoferMEVIS/MAMA-MIA-Challenge-FME
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tumor segmentation
pathological complete response prediction
dynamic contrast-enhanced breast MRI
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subtraction-based
ensembling
tumor segmentation
pCR prediction
cross-site domain shift
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