A Fusion-Based Approach for Breast Ultrasound Image Classification Using Multiple-ROI Texture and Morphological Analyses
Joint Authors
Daoud, Mohammad I.
Bdair, Tariq M.
Al-Najar, Mahasen
Alazrai, Rami
Source
Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2016, Issue 2016 (31 Dec. 2016), pp.1-12, 12 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2016-12-29
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
12
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Ultrasound imaging is commonly used for breast cancer diagnosis, but accurate interpretation of breast ultrasound (BUS) images is often challenging and operator-dependent.
Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems can be employed to provide the radiologists with a second opinion to improve the diagnosis accuracy.
In this study, a new CAD system is developed to enable accurate BUS image classification.
In particular, an improved texture analysis is introduced, in which the tumor is divided into a set of nonoverlapping regions of interest (ROIs).
Each ROI is analyzed using gray-level cooccurrence matrix features and a support vector machine classifier to estimate its tumor class indicator.
The tumor class indicators of all ROIs are combined using a voting mechanism to estimate the tumor class.
In addition, morphological analysis is employed to classify the tumor.
A probabilistic approach is used to fuse the classification results of the multiple-ROI texture analysis and morphological analysis.
The proposed approach is applied to classify 110 BUS images that include 64 benign and 46 malignant tumors.
The accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity obtained using the proposed approach are 98.2%, 98.4%, and 97.8%, respectively.
These results demonstrate that the proposed approach can effectively be used to differentiate benign and malignant tumors.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Daoud, Mohammad I.& Bdair, Tariq M.& Al-Najar, Mahasen& Alazrai, Rami. 2016. A Fusion-Based Approach for Breast Ultrasound Image Classification Using Multiple-ROI Texture and Morphological Analyses. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine،Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1100172
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Daoud, Mohammad I.…[et al.]. A Fusion-Based Approach for Breast Ultrasound Image Classification Using Multiple-ROI Texture and Morphological Analyses. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine No. 2016 (2016), pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1100172
American Medical Association (AMA)
Daoud, Mohammad I.& Bdair, Tariq M.& Al-Najar, Mahasen& Alazrai, Rami. A Fusion-Based Approach for Breast Ultrasound Image Classification Using Multiple-ROI Texture and Morphological Analyses. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. 2016. Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1100172
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1100172