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Textural Classification of Mammographic Parenchymal Patterns with the SONNET Selforganizing Neural Network
Joint Authors
Brezulianu, Adrian
Howard, Daniel
Ryan, Conor
Roberts, Simon C.
Source
Issue
Vol. 2008, Issue 2008 (31 Dec. 2008), pp.1-11, 11 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2008-04-13
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
11
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
In nationwide mammography screening, thousands of mammography examinations must be processed.
Each consists of two standard views of each breast, and each mammogram must be visually examined by an experienced radiologist to assess it for any anomalies.
The ability to detect an anomaly in mammographic texture is important to successful outcomes in mammography screening and, in this study, a large number of mammograms were digitized with a highly accurate scanner; and textural features were derived from the mammograms as input data to a SONNET selforganizing neural network.
The paper discusses how SONNET was used to produce a taxonomic organization of the mammography archive in an unsupervised manner.
This process is subject to certain choices of SONNET parameters, in these numerical experiments using the craniocaudal view, and typically produced O(10), for example, 39 mammogram classes, by analysis of features from O(103) mammogram images.
The mammogram taxonomy captured typical subtleties to discriminate mammograms, and it is submitted that this may be exploited to aid the detection of mammographic anomalies, for example, by acting as a preprocessing stage to simplify the task for a computational detection scheme, or by ordering mammography examinations by mammogram taxonomic class prior to screening in order to encourage more successful visual examination during screening.
The resulting taxonomy may help train screening radiologists and conceivably help to settle legal cases concerning a mammography screening examination because the taxonomy can reveal the frequency of mammographic patterns in a population.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Howard, Daniel& Roberts, Simon C.& Ryan, Conor& Brezulianu, Adrian. 2008. Textural Classification of Mammographic Parenchymal Patterns with the SONNET Selforganizing Neural Network. BioMed Research International،Vol. 2008, no. 2008, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-987778
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Howard, Daniel…[et al.]. Textural Classification of Mammographic Parenchymal Patterns with the SONNET Selforganizing Neural Network. BioMed Research International No. 2008 (2008), pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-987778
American Medical Association (AMA)
Howard, Daniel& Roberts, Simon C.& Ryan, Conor& Brezulianu, Adrian. Textural Classification of Mammographic Parenchymal Patterns with the SONNET Selforganizing Neural Network. BioMed Research International. 2008. Vol. 2008, no. 2008, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-987778
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-987778