Quantitative analysis of micro-calcifications for breast cancer via wavelet transform and neural network

Nan Chyuan Tsai, Hong Wei Chen, Sheng Liang Hsu

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Abstract

A high-sensitivity computer-aided diagnosis algorithm which can detect and quantify micro-calcifications for early-stage breast cancer is proposed in this research. The algorithm can be divided into two phases: image reconstruction and recognition on micro-calcification regions. For Phase I, the suspicious micro-calcification regions are separated from the normal tissues by wavelet layers and Renyi's information theory. The Morphology-Dilation and Majority Voting Rule are employed to reconstruct the scattered regions of suspicious micro-calcification. For Phase II, total 49 descriptors which mainly includes shape inertia, compactness, eccentricity and grey-level co-occurrence matrix are introduced to define the characteristics of the suspicious micro-calcification clusters. In order to reduce the computation load, principal component analysis is used to transform these descriptors to a compact but efficient expression by linear combination method. The performance of proposed diagnosis algorithm is verified by intensive experiments upon realistic clinic patients. The efficacy of back-propagation neural network classifier exhibits its superiority in terms of high true positive rate(TP rate) and low false positive(FP rate) rate, in comparison to Bayes classifier.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2009 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM 2009
Pages209-214
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Event2009 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM 2009 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 2009 Jul 142009 Jul 17

Publication series

NameIEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM

Other

Other2009 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM 2009
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period09-07-1409-07-17

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Computer Science Applications

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