Bilateral analysis based false positive reduction for computer‐aided mass detection
- 26 July 2007
- journal article
- radiation imaging-physics
- Published by Wiley in Medical Physics
- Vol. 34 (8), 3334-3344
- https://doi.org/10.1118/1.2756612
Abstract
We have developed a false positive (FP) reduction method based on analysis of bilateral mammograms for computerized mass detection systems. The mass candidates on each view were first detected by our unilateral computer‐aided detection (CAD) system. For each detected object, a regional registration technique was used to define a region of interest (ROI) that is “symmetrical” to the object location on the contralateral mammogram. Texture features derived from the spatial gray level dependence matrices and morphological features were extracted from the ROI containing the detected object on a mammogram and its corresponding ROI on the contralateral mammogram. Bilateral features were then generated from corresponding pairs of unilateral features for each object. Two linear discriminant analysis (LDA) classifiers were trained from the unilateral and the bilateral feature spaces, respectively. Finally, the scores from the unilateral LDA classifier and the bilateral LDA asymmetry classifier were fused with a third LDA whose output score was used to distinguish true mass from FPs. A data set of 341 cases of bilateral two‐view mammograms was used in this study, of which 276 cases with 552 bilateral pairs contained 110 malignant and 166 benign biopsy‐proven masses and 65 cases with 130 bilateral pairs were normal. The mass data set was divided into two subsets for twofold cross‐validation training and testing. The normal data set was used for estimation of FP rates. It was found that our bilateral CAD system achieved a case‐based sensitivity of , , and at average FP rates of 0.35, 0.75, and 0.95 FPs/image, respectively, on the test data sets with malignant masses. In comparison to the average FP rates for the unilateral CAD system of 0.58, 1.33, and 1.63, respectively, at the corresponding sensitivities, the FP rates were reduced by , , and with the bilateral symmetry information. The improvement was statistically significance as estimated by JAFROC analysis.Keywords
Funding Information
- U.S. Public Health Service (CA95153)
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