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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Image Anal. 2020 Dec 16;68:101908. doi: 10.1016/j.media.2020.101908

Algorithm 1.

retrieve_roi

Input: x∈ℝH,W, A∈ℝh,w,2, K
Output: O={x˜k∣x˜k∈ℝhc,wc}
1: O = Ø
2: for each class c ∈ {benign, malignant} do
3:    Ãc = min-max-normalization(Ac)
4: end for
5: A*=∑cA˜c
6: l denotes an arbitrary hchH×wcwW rectangular patch on A*
7: criterion(l,A*)=∑(i,j)∈lA*[i,j]
8: for each 1, 2, …, K do
9:    l* = argmaxl criterion(l, A*)
10:    L = position of l* in x
11:    O=O∪{L}
12:    ∀(i,j)∈l*, set A*[i, j] = 0
13: end for
14: return O