Segmentation of Pectoral Muscle in Mammograms Using Granular Computing

In this paper, pectoral muscle segmentation was performed to study the presence of malignancy in the pectoral muscle region in mammograms. A combined approach involving granular computing and layering was employed to locate the pectoral muscle in mammograms. In most cases, the pectoral muscle is found to be triangular in shape and hence, the ant colony optimization algorithm is employed to accurately estimate the pectoral muscle boundary. The proposed method works with the left mediolateral oblique (MLO) view of mammograms to avoid artifacts. For the right MLO view, the method automatically mirrors the image to the left MLO view. The performance of this method was evaluated using the standard mini MIAS dataset (mammographic image analysis society). The algorithm was tested on 322 images and the overall accuracy of the system was about 97.47 %. The method is robust with respect to the view, shape, size and reduces the processing time. The approach correctly identifies images when the pectoral muscle is completely absent.

Multicriteria Evaluation of Deep Neural Networks for Semantic Segmentation of Mammographies

Breast segmentation plays a vital role in the automatic analysis of mammograms. Accurate segmentation of the breast region increments the probability of a correct diagnostic and minimizes computational cost. Traditionally, model-based approaches dominated the landscape for breast segmentation, but recent studies seem to benefit from using robust deep learning models for this task. In this work, we present an extensive evaluation of deep learning architectures for semantic segmentation of mammograms, including segmentation metrics, memory requirements, and average inference time. We used several combinations of two-stage segmentation architectures composed of a feature extraction net (VGG16 and ResNet50) and a segmentation net (FCN-8, U-Net, and PSPNet). The training examples were taken from the mini Mammographic Image Analysis Society (MIAS) database. Experimental results using the mini-MIAS database show that the best net scored a Dice similarity coefficient of 99.37% for breast boundary segmentation and 95.45% for pectoral muscle segmentation.

Medical Image Classification Using the Discriminant Power Analysis (DPA) of Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) Coefficients

Medical imaging systems are very important in medicine domain. They assist specialists to make the final decision about the patient’s condition, and strongly help in early cancer detection. The classification of mammogram images represents a very important operation to identify whether the breast cancer is benign or malignant. In this chapter, we propose a new computer aided diagnostic (CAD) system, which is composed of three steps. In the first step, the input image is pre-processed to remove the noise and artifacts and also to separate the breast profile from the pectoral muscle. This operation is a difficult task that can affect the final decision. For this reason, a hybrid segmentation method using the seeded region growing (SRG) algorithm applied on a localized triangular region has been proposed. In the second step, we have proposed a features extraction method based on the discrete cosine transform (DCT), where the processed images of the breast profiles are transformed by the DCT where the part containing the highest energy value is selected. Then, in the feature’s selection step, a new most discriminative power coefficients algorithm has been proposed to select the most significant features. In the final step of the proposed system, we have used the most known classifiers in the field of the image classification for evaluation. An effective classification has been made using the Support Vector Machines (SVM), Naive Bayes (NB), Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and k-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) classifiers. To evaluate the efficiency and to measure the performances of the proposed CAD system, we have selected the mini Mammographic Image Analysis Society (MIAS) database. The obtained results show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm over others, which are recently proposed in the literature, whereas the new CAD reached an accuracy of 100%, in certain cases, with only a small set of selected features.

An enhancement of mammogram images for breast cancer classification using artificial neural networks

<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-12eaaa5f-7fff-c428-95bf-97a7381b2976"><span>Breast cancer is the most driving reason for death in women in both developed and developing nations. For the plan of effective classification of a system, the selection of features method must be used to decrease irregularity part in mammogram images. The proposed approach is used to crop the region of interests (ROIs) manually. Based on that number of features are extracted. In this proposed method a novel hybrid optimum feature selection (HOFS) method is used to find out the significant features to reach maximum accuracy for this classification. A number of selected features is applied to train the neural network. In this proposed method accessible informational index from the mini–mammographic image analysis society (MIAS) database was used. The classification of this mammogram database involved a neural networks classifier which attained an accuracy of 99.7% with a sensitivity of 99.5%, and specificity of 100% as the area under the curve (AUC) is 0.9975 and matthew’s correlation coefficient (MCC) represents a binary class value which reached the value of 0.9931. It can be useful in a computer-aided diagnosis system (CAD) framework to help the radiologist in analyzing breast cancer. Results achieved with the proposed method are better compared to recent work.</span></span></p>

Chaotic Duck Traveler Optimization (cDTO) Algorithm for Feature Selection in Breast Cancer Dataset Problem

Objective: 1 of every 3 individuals will be determined to have malignancy in the course of their life. Currently, there are more than 3.8 million ladies who have been determined to have breast malignancy in the United States. 2021 is practically around the bend, yet there's still an ideal opportunity to help ladies confronting breast malignancy in 2020. In this paper, chaotic based duck travel optimization (cDTO) meta-heuristic algorithm is introduced to classifying the input images from Mammogram Image Analysis Society (MIAS) database. Methods: Linear Discriminant Analysis is used to extract the mammogram image features. (cDTO-LDA) is an intrinsic algorithm to remove irrelevant features and select the optimal features by using wavelet families Haar (harr), db4 (daubechies), bior4.4 (Biorthogonal), Symlets (SYM8), “Discrete” FIR approximation of Meyer wavelet (dmey) features. Results: These selected features are evaluated by the quality measures such as accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, error rate that are clearly shows the high exactness of cDTO classifier is 98.5%. CSA-LDA classifier has the minimum exactness. Conclusion: Algorithm efficiency is proved by the promising results achieved by the proposed algorithm for selecting the best feature of breast cancer classification.

Breast Mass Classification Based on Hybrid Discrete Cosine Transformation–Haar Wavelet Transformation

Mammography is the most effective procedure for the early detection of breast cancer. In this paper an efficient a Computer Aided Diagnosis (CADx) system is proposed to discriminate between benign and malignant. The system comprises mainly of three steps: preprocessing of the images, feature extraction, and finally classification and performance analysis. The case sample mammographic images, originating from the mini MIAS (Mammographic Image Analysis Society) database. In the preprocessing phase the ROI is cropped and resized by 128 x 128. at the very beginning of the feature extraction process, we have applied Haar Wavelet Transform (HWT) for five levels and, in each level, Discrete Cosine Transform applied with various selection of coefficients. After that, different types of features are fed into the feature similarity measure City Block for the diagnosis of breast cancer. The images are of two classes benign and malignant classes. Finally, K-Nearest Number is employed here as a classifier. In our proposed system, we found competitive results.

Classification of Mammogram Abnormalities Using Legendre Moments

In this paper, the issue of classifying mammogram abnormalities using images from an mammogram image analysis society (MIAS) database is discussed. We compare a feature extractor based on Legendre moments (LMs) with six other feature extractors. To determine the best feature extractor, the performance of each was compared in terms of classification accuracy rate and extraction time using a [Formula: see text]-nearest neighbors ([Formula: see text]-NN) classifier. This study shows that feature extraction using LMs performed best with an accuracy rate over 84% and requiring relatively little time for feature extraction, on average only 1[Formula: see text]s.

Multi-Type Classification Comparison of Mammogram Abnormalities

Cancer is a life-threatening disease which reduces the lifespan of humans. If the disease is treated early, the lifespan can be extended. This paper provides a useful method for detecting the abnormalities in the mammograms. The proposed method uses four phases such as pre-processing, segmentation, feature extraction and classification. In the pre-processing phase, median filter is utilized to enhance the quality of an image. The pre-processed image is then segmented by fuzzy C means (FCM). Three different features such as Gaussian–Hermite moments (GHM), Jacobi moments and pseudo Zernike moments (PZM) are extracted from the segmented image. Finally, extreme learning machine (ELM) classifier identifies the normal, malignant and benign kinds of cancer. This method is compared with four different classifiers. The proposed method is tested on mammographic image analysis society (MIAS) dataset and the performance is evaluated against several analogous approaches in terms of accuracy, sensitivity and specificity. The proposed approach substantially provides the best result.