Early screening of skeptical masses or breast carcinomas in mammograms is supposed to decline the mortality rate among women. This amount can be decreased more on development of the computer-aided diagnosis with reduction of false suppositions in medical informatics. Our aim is to provide a robust tumor detection system for accurate classification of breast masses using normal, abnormal, benign, or malignant classes. The breast carcinomas are classified on the basis of observed classes. This is highly dependent on feature extraction process. In propose work, a novel algorithm for classification based on the combination of top Hat transformation and gray level co-occurrence matrix with back propagation neural network. The aim of this study is to present a robust classification model for automated diagnosis of the breast tumor with reduction of false assumptions in medical informatics. The proposed method is verified on two datasets MIAS and DDSM. It is observed that rate of false positives decreased by the proposed method to improve the performance of classification, efficiently.

A novel classification scheme to decline the mortality rate among women due to breast tumor.

Accurate tumor segmentation is an essential and crucial step for computer-aided brain tumor diagnosis and surgical planning. Subjective segmentations are widely adopted in clinical diagnosis and treating, but they are neither accurate nor reliable. An automatical and objective system for brain tumor segmentation is strongly expected. But they are still facing some challenges such as lower segmentation accuracy, demanding a priori knowledge or requiring the human intervention. In this paper, a novel and new coarse-to-fine method is proposed to segment the brain tumor. This hierarchical framework consists of preprocessing, deep learning network based classification and post-processing. The preprocessing is used to extract image patches for each MR image and obtains the gray level sequences of image patches as the input of the deep learning network. The deep learning network based classification is implemented by a stacked auto-encoder network to extract the high level abstract feature from the input, and utilizes the extracted feature to classify image patches. After mapping the classification result to a binary image, the post-processing is implemented by a morphological filter to get the final segmentation result. In order to evaluate the proposed method, the experiment was applied to segment the brain tumor for the real patient dataset. The final performance shows that the proposed brain tumor segmentation method is more accurate and efficient.

A deep learning-based segmentation method for brain tumor in MR images

In order to begin the initial check on breast cancer, radiologist can use Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) as another option to detect breast cancer. During breast cancer check, human error is often to affecting the result. Several research before have proved that CAD is able to detect breast cancer spot more accurate. The purpose of this research is to find reliable method to classify breast cancer abnormalities. Mammography Image Analysis Society (MIAS) database is used as the sample data to the proposed system in this research. Mammograms are divided into three categorize which are normal, benign and malignant according to MIAS database. Features included in this experiment are extracted by using gray level co-occurrence matrices (GLCM) at 0o, 45o, 90o and 135o with a block size of 128x128. In classification process, this research attempt to compare k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier in order to achieve the better accuracy. The result shows that SVM outperforms KNN in breast cancer abnormalities classification with 93.88% accuracy.

Comparison Classifier: Support Vector Machine (SVM) and K-Nearest Neighbor (K-NN) In Digital Mammogram Images

A new approach for the detection of mammary calcifications by using the white Top-Hat transform and thresholding of Otsu

Breast cancer is one of the life-threatening cancers occurring in women. In recent years, from the surveys provided by various medical organizations, it has become clear that the mortality rate of females is increasing owing to the late detection of breast cancer. Therefore, an automated algorithm is needed to identify the early occurrence of microcalcification, which would assist radiologists and physicians in reducing the false predictions via image processing techniques. In this work, we propose a new algorithm to detect the pattern of a microcalcification by calculating its physical characteristics. The considered physical characteristics are the reflection coefficient and mass density of the binned digital mammogram image. The calculation of physical characteristics doubly confirms the presence of malignant microcalcification. Subsequently, by interpolating the physical characteristics via thresholding and mapping techniques, a three-dimensional (3D) projection of the region of interest (RoI) is obtained in terms of the distance in millimeter. The size of a microcalcification is determined using this 3D-projected view. This algorithm is verified with 100 abnormal mammogram images showing microcalcification and 10 normal mammogram images. In addition to the size calculation, the proposed algorithm acts as a good classifier that is used to classify the considered input image as normal or abnormal with the help of only two physical characteristics. This proposed algorithm exhibits a classification accuracy of 99%.

Pattern Recognition and Size Prediction of Microcalcification Based on Physical Characteristics by Using Digital Mammogram Images.

Mammography images are employed in diagnosing breast cancers, since they are most effective, low cost and one of the highly sensitive techniques such that they can detect even small lesions. The proposed work increases the accuracy of classification and reduces the percentage of false positives. The images from the data set are initially preprocessed and contrast enhanced which makes the image most effective for further analysis. Then Region Of Interest (ROI) is determined from morphological top hat filtered image by means of thresholding segmentation. Various features like first order textural features, Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) features, Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) features, run length features and higher order gradient features are derived for the particular ROI. Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier is trained with the above mentioned features using MATLAB bioinformatics tool box. Thus the classified results are obtained for the query image based on the trained SVM structure. The mammography data set has been taken from the Mammographic Image Analysis Society (MIAS) in which there are 322 images available along with ground tooth information.

D. Manimegalai

Papers

Automatic detection of tumor subtype in mammograms based On GLCM and DWT features using SVM