This paper aims to demonstrate a novel deep-learning network that addresses the prediction of breast tumors for diffuse optical imaging. Two learning schemes, signal encoder and image encoder, in the proposed network are designed for reconstructing optical-property images. The former processing method takes boundary data directly to deep networks, and predicts the optical-coefficient distribution, while the latter feeds images obtained by inverse image reconstruction with artifacts and sometimes hard-to-localized tumors. All 10,000 samples of synthesized homogeneous and heterogeneous phantoms were randomly selected for training, validation, and testing of performance. Twelve phantom samples were employed to justify its effectiveness in real applications.
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