Combination of Texture and Shape Features Using Machine and Deep Learning Algorithms for Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Worldwide, breast cancer is a commonly occurring disease in women. Automatic diagnosis of the lesions based on mammographic images is playing an essential role to assist experts. A novel Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CADx) scheme of breast lesion classification is proposed in this paper based on an optimized combination of texture and shape features using machine and deep learning algorithms for mass classification as benign-malignant namely C(M-ZMs)*. The main advantage of using Zernike moments for shape feature extraction is their scale, translation, and rotation invariance property, this allows omitting some of the preprocessing stages in our case. We implemented for texture feature extraction the Monogenic-Local Binary Pattern taking the advantage of lower time and space complexity because monogenic signal analysis needs fewer convolutions and generates more compact feature vectors. Therefore, we used Zernike moments for shape feature extraction due to their scale, translation, and rotation invariance property, this allows omitting some of the preprocessing stages in our proposed system. The proposed system proves its performance on some challenging breast cancer cases where the lesions exist in dense breast tissues. Validation has been undertaken on 520 mammograms from the Digital Database for Screening Mammography Database (DDSM), yielding an accuracy rate of 99.5\%.