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Microcalcification evaluation in computer assisted diagnosis for digital mammography

In order to develop applications for z;isual interpretation of medical images, the early detection and evaluation of microcalcifications in digital mammograms is verg important since their presence is often associated with a high incidence of breast cancers. Accurate classification into benign and malignant groups would help improve diagnostic sensitivity as well as reduce the number of unnecessa y biopsies. The challenge here is the selection of the useful features to distinguish benign from malignant micro calcifications. Our purpose in this work is to analyse a microcalcification evaluation method based on a set of shapebased features extracted from the digitised mammography. The segmentation of the microcalcifications is performed using a fixed-tolerance region growing method to extract boundaries of calcifications with manually selected seed pixels. Taking into account that shapes and sizes of clustered microcalcifications have been associated with a high risk of carcinoma based on digerent subjective measures, such as whether or not the calcifications are irregular, linear, vermiform, branched, rounded or ring like, our efforts were addressed to obtain a feature set related to the shape. The identification of the pammeters concerning the malignant character of the microcalcifications was performed on a set of 146 mammograms with their real diagnosis known in advance from biopsies. This allowed identifying the following shape-based parameters as the relevant ones: Number of clusters, Number of holes, Area, Feret elongation, Roughness, and Elongation. Further experiments on a set of 70 new mammogmms showed that the performance of the classification scheme is close to the mean performance of three expert radiologists, which allows to consider the proposed method for assisting the diagnosis and encourages to continue the investigation in the sense of adding new features not only related to the shape

© IEE Colloquium on Medical Applications of Signal Processing, 1999, núm. 107, p. 7-7

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Autor: Martí Bonmatí, Joan
Batlle i Grabulosa, Joan
Cufí i Solé, Xavier
Español, Josep
Data: 1999
Resum: In order to develop applications for z;isual interpretation of medical images, the early detection and evaluation of microcalcifications in digital mammograms is verg important since their presence is often associated with a high incidence of breast cancers. Accurate classification into benign and malignant groups would help improve diagnostic sensitivity as well as reduce the number of unnecessa y biopsies. The challenge here is the selection of the useful features to distinguish benign from malignant micro calcifications. Our purpose in this work is to analyse a microcalcification evaluation method based on a set of shapebased features extracted from the digitised mammography. The segmentation of the microcalcifications is performed using a fixed-tolerance region growing method to extract boundaries of calcifications with manually selected seed pixels. Taking into account that shapes and sizes of clustered microcalcifications have been associated with a high risk of carcinoma based on digerent subjective measures, such as whether or not the calcifications are irregular, linear, vermiform, branched, rounded or ring like, our efforts were addressed to obtain a feature set related to the shape. The identification of the pammeters concerning the malignant character of the microcalcifications was performed on a set of 146 mammograms with their real diagnosis known in advance from biopsies. This allowed identifying the following shape-based parameters as the relevant ones: Number of clusters, Number of holes, Area, Feret elongation, Roughness, and Elongation. Further experiments on a set of 70 new mammogmms showed that the performance of the classification scheme is close to the mean performance of three expert radiologists, which allows to consider the proposed method for assisting the diagnosis and encourages to continue the investigation in the sense of adding new features not only related to the shape
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Cita: Martí, J., Batlle, J., Cufí, X., i Español, J. (1999). IEE Colloquium on Medical Applications of Signal Processing, 107, 7/1 - 7/6. Recuperat 06 maig 2010, a http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=828606
Accés al document: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/2182
Llenguatge: eng
Editor: IEEE
Col·lecció: Articles publicats (D-ATC)
És part de: © IEE Colloquium on Medical Applications of Signal Processing, 1999, núm. 107, p. 7-7
Drets: Tots els drets reservats
Matèria: Diagnòstic per la imatge
Imatges -- Segmentació
Imatgeria mèdica
Mama -- Radiografia
Imaging segmentation
Radiografia mèdica -- Tècniques digitals
Breast -- Radiography
Diagnostic imaging
Imaging systems in medicine
Radiography, Medical -- Digital techniques
Títol: Microcalcification evaluation in computer assisted diagnosis for digital mammography
Tipus: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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