Efficiency and Scalability Methods in Cancer Detection Problems

Author(s):  
Inna Stainvas ◽  
Alexandra Manevitch

Computer aided detection (CAD) system for cancer detection from X-ray images is highly requested by radiologists. For CAD systems to be successful, a large amount of data has to be collected. This poses new challenges for developing learning algorithms that are efficient and scalable to large dataset sizes. One way to achieve this efficiency is by using good feature selection.

Author(s):  
Nazila Darabi ◽  
Abdalhossein Rezai ◽  
Seyedeh Shahrbanoo Falahieh Hamidpour

Breast cancer is a common cancer in female. Accurate and early detection of breast cancer can play a vital role in treatment. This paper presents and evaluates a thermogram based Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) system for the detection of breast cancer. In this CAD system, the Random Subset Feature Selection (RSFS) algorithm and hybrid of minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance (mRMR) algorithm and Genetic Algorithm (GA) with RSFS algorithm are utilized for feature selection. In addition, the Support Vector Machine (SVM) and k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN) algorithms are utilized as classifier algorithm. The proposed CAD system is verified using MATLAB 2017 and a dataset that is composed of breast images from 78 patients. The implementation results demonstrate that using RSFS algorithm for feature selection and kNN and SVM algorithms as classifier have accuracy of 85.36% and 75%, and sensitivity of 94.11% and 79.31%, respectively. In addition, using hybrid GA and RSFS algorithm for feature selection and kNN and SVM algorithms as classifier have accuracy of 83.87% and 69.56%, and sensitivity of 96% and 81.81%, respectively, and using hybrid mRMR and RSFS algorithms for feature selection and kNN and SVM algorithms as classifier have accuracy of 77.41% and 73.07%, and sensitivity of 98% and 72.72%, respectively.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S11) ◽  
pp. 1008-1014

The Women breast cancer is the most critical cancer that are found in women. Its the second important cause of death in the world. Breast cancer has been ranked number one cancer in Indian females with rates occurrence of 25.8 per 1,00,000 females and death rate 12.7 among 1,00,000. Generally breast cancer is a malignant tumor that begins in the cells of the breast and eventually it spreads to the surrounding tissues. Early detection and diagnosis can reduce the mortality rate. Radiologist misdiagnosis the disease due to technical issues such as imaging quality and human error. Radiologists can improve the performance of Computer Aided Detection/Diagnosis (CAD) systems to finding and discriminating between the normal and abnormal tissues. Breast cancer diagnosis can applied are applied recent CAD systems on imaging modalities such as mammogram, ultrasound, MRI and biopsy histopathological images. CAD system have four stages for diagnosis which are pre-processing, segmentation, Feature Extraction and Classification. CAD system are developed to reduce the time taken to diagnose the breast cancer and reduce the death rate. This paper focus on the survey of CAD system to detect women breast cancer disease from the digital mammographic images to achieve high accuracy and low computational cost.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kishore Rajagopalan ◽  
Suresh babu

Abstract Background An existing computer aided detection (CAD) scheme faces major issues during subtle nodule recognition. However, radiologists have not noticed subtle nodules in beginning stage of lung cancer. Method In the proposed computer aided detection (CAD) system, this issue has been resolved by creating MTANN based soft tissue technique from the lung segmented x-ray image. X-ray images are downloaded using JSRT(Japanese society of radiological technology) image set. JSRT image set includes 233 images (140 nodule x-ray images and 93 normal x-ray images). A mean size for a nodule is 17.8 mm and it is validated with computed tomography (CT) image. Thirty percent (42/140) abnormal represent subtle nodules and it is split into five stages (tremendously subtle, very subtle, subtle, observable, relatively observable) by radiologists. Result An existing computer aided detection (CAD) scheme attained 66.42% (93/140) sensitivity having 2.5 false positives (FPs) per image. Utilizing MTANN based soft tissue technique, many nodules superimposed by ribs as well as clavicles have identified (sensitivity is 72.85% (102/140) at one false positive rate). Conclusion In particular, proposed computer aided detection (CAD) system using soft tissue technique determine sensitivity in support of subtle nodules (14/42=33.33%) is statistically higher than CAD (13/42=30.95%) scheme without soft tissue technique. A proposed CAD scheme attained tremendously minimum false positive rate and it is a promising technique in support of cancerous recognition.


Author(s):  
Susama Bagchi ◽  
Kim Gaik Tay ◽  
Audrey Huong ◽  
Sanjoy Kumar Debnath

This paper aims to review the previously developed Computer-aided detection (CAD) systems for mammogram screening because increasing death rate in women due to breast cancer is a global medical issue and it can be controlled only by early detection with regular screening. Till now mammography is the widely used breast imaging modality. CAD systems have been adopted by the radiologists to increase the accuracy of the breast cancer diagnosis by avoiding human errors and experience related issues. This study reveals that in spite of the higher accuracy obtained by the earlier proposed CAD systems for breast cancer diagnosis, they are not fully automated. Moreover, the false-positive mammogram screening cases are high in number and over-diagnosis of breast cancer exposes a patient towards harmful overtreatment for which a huge amount of money is being wasted. In addition, it is also reported that the mammogram screening result with and without CAD systems does not have noticeable difference, whereas the undetected cancer cases by CAD system are increasing. Thus, future research is required to improve the performance of CAD system for mammogram screening and make it completely automated.


2010 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 482-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seung Ja Kim ◽  
Woo Kyung Moon ◽  
Soo-Yeon Kim ◽  
Jung Min Chang ◽  
Sun Mi Kim ◽  
...  

Background: The performance of the computer-aided detection (CAD) system can be determined by the sensitivity and false-positive marks rate, therefore these factors should be improved by upgrading the software version of the CAD system. Purpose: To compare retrospectively the performances of two software versions of a commercially available CAD system when applied to full-field digital mammograms for the detection of breast cancers in a screening group. Material and Methods: Versions 3.1 and 8.3 of a CAD software system (ImageChecker, R2 Technology) were applied to the full-field digital mammograms of 130 women (age range 36–80, mean age 53 years) with 130 breast cancers detected by screening. Results: The overall sensitivities of the version 3.1 and 8.3 CAD systems were 92.3% (120 of 130) and 96.2% (125 of 130) ( P=0.025), respectively, and sensitivities for masses were 78.3% (36 of 46) and 89.1% (41 of 46) ( P=0.024) and for microcalcifications 100% (84 of 84) and 100% (84 of 84), respectively. Version 8.3 correctly marked five lesions of invasive ductal carcinoma that were missed by version 3.1. Average numbers of false-positive marks per image were 0.38 (0.15 for calcifications, 0.23 for masses) for version 3.1 and 0.46 (0.13 for calcifications, 0.33 for masses) for version 8.3 ( P=0.1420). Conclusion: The newer version 8.3 of the CAD system showed better overall sensitivity for the detection of breast cancer than version 3.1 due to its improved sensitivity for masses when applied to full-field digital mammograms.


Author(s):  
Ammar Chaudhry ◽  
Ammar Chaudhry ◽  
William H. Moore

Purpose: The radiographic diagnosis of lung nodules is associated with low sensitivity and specificity. Computer-aided detection (CAD) system has been shown to have higher accuracy in the detection of lung nodules. The purpose of this study is to assess the effect on sensitivity and specificity when a CAD system is used to review chest radiographs in real-time setting. Methods: Sixty-three patients, including 24 controls, who had chest radiographs and CT within three months were included in this study. Three radiologists were presented chest radiographs without CAD and were asked to mark all lung nodules. Then the radiologists were allowed to see the CAD region-of-interest (ROI) marks and were asked to agree or disagree with the marks. All marks were correlated with CT studies. Results: The mean sensitivity of the three radiologists without CAD was 16.1%, which showed a statistically significant improvement to 22.5% with CAD. The mean specificity of the three radiologists was 52.5% without CAD and decreased to 48.1% with CAD. There was no significant change in the positive predictive value or negative predictive value. Conclusion: The addition of a CAD system to chest radiography interpretation statistically improves the detection of lung nodules without affecting its specificity. Thus suggesting CAD would improve overall detection of lung nodules.


Author(s):  
Jian-Wu Xu ◽  
Kenji Suzuki

One of the major challenges in current Computer-Aided Detection (CADe) of polyps in CT Colonography (CTC) is to improve the specificity without sacrificing the sensitivity. If a large number of False Positive (FP) detections of polyps are produced by the scheme, radiologists might lose their confidence in the use of CADe. In this chapter, the authors used a nonlinear regression model operating on image voxels and a nonlinear classification model with extracted image features based on Support Vector Machines (SVMs). They investigated the feasibility of a Support Vector Regression (SVR) in the massive-training framework, and the authors developed a Massive-Training SVR (MTSVR) in order to reduce the long training time associated with the Massive-Training Artificial Neural Network (MTANN) for reduction of FPs in CADe of polyps in CTC. In addition, the authors proposed a feature selection method directly coupled with an SVM classifier to maximize the CADe system performance. They compared the proposed feature selection method with the conventional stepwise feature selection based on Wilks’ lambda with a linear discriminant analysis classifier. The FP reduction system based on the proposed feature selection method was able to achieve a 96.0% by-polyp sensitivity with an FP rate of 4.1 per patient. The performance is better than that of the stepwise feature selection based on Wilks’ lambda (which yielded the same sensitivity with 18.0 FPs/patient). To test the performance of the proposed MTSVR, the authors compared it with the original MTANN in the distinction between actual polyps and various types of FPs in terms of the training time reduction and FP reduction performance. The authors’ CTC database consisted of 240 CTC datasets obtained from 120 patients in the supine and prone positions. With MTSVR, they reduced the training time by a factor of 190, while achieving a performance (by-polyp sensitivity of 94.7% with 2.5 FPs/patient) comparable to that of the original MTANN (which has the same sensitivity with 2.6 FPs/patient).


Author(s):  
Gautam S. Muralidhar ◽  
Alan C. Bovik ◽  
Mia K. Markey

The last 15 years has seen the advent of a variety of powerful 3D x-ray based breast imaging modalities such as digital breast tomosynthesis, digital breast computed tomography, and stereo mammography. These modalities promise to herald a new and exciting future for early detection and diagnosis of breast cancer. In this chapter, the authors review some of the recent developments in 3D x-ray based breast imaging. They also review some of the initial work in the area of computer-aided detection and diagnosis for 3D x-ray based breast imaging. The chapter concludes by discussing future research directions in 3D computer-aided detection.


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