Directional features for automatic tumor classification of mammogram images
- 9 November 2010
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
- Vol. 6 (4), 370-378
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bspc.2010.10.003
Abstract
One way for breast cancer diagnosis is provided by taking radiographic (X-ray) images (termed mammograms) for suspect patients, images further used by physicians to identify potential abnormal areas thorough visual inspection. When digital mammograms are available, computer-aided based diagnostic may help the physician in having a more accurate decision. This implies automatic abnormal areas detection using segmentation, followed by tumor classification. This work aims at describing an approach to deal with the classification of digital mammograms. Patches around tumors are manually extracted to segment the abnormal areas from the remaining of the image, considered as background. The mammogram images are filtered using Gabor wavelets and directional features are extracted at different orientation and frequencies. Principal Component Analysis is employed to reduce the dimension of filtered and unfiltered high-dimensional data. Proximal Support Vector Machines are used to final classify the data. Superior mammogram image classification performance is attained when Gabor features are extracted instead of using original mammogram images. The robustness of Gabor features for digital mammogram images distorted by Poisson noise with different intensity levels is also addressed.Keywords
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