Semiautomatic mammographic parenchymal patterns classification using multiple statistical features.

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Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Semiautomatic mammographic parenchymal patterns classification using multiple statistical features.
Périodique
Academic Radiology
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Castella C., Kinkel K., Eckstein M.P., Sottas P.E., Verdun F.R., Bochud F.O.
ISSN
1076-6332
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2007
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
14
Numéro
12
Pages
1486-1499
Langue
anglais
Résumé
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Our project was to investigate a complete methodology for the semiautomatic assessment of digital mammograms according to their density, an indicator known to be correlated to breast cancer risk. The BI-RADS four-grade density scale is usually employed by radiologists for reporting breast density, but it allows for a certain degree of subjective input, and an objective qualification of density has therefore often been reported hard to assess. The goal of this study was to design an objective technique for determining breast BI-RADS density. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The proposed semiautomatic method makes use of complementary pattern recognition techniques to describe manually selected regions of interest (ROIs) in the breast with 36 statistical features. Three different classifiers based on a linear discriminant analysis or Bayesian theories were designed and tested on a database consisting of 1408 ROIs from 88 patients, using a leave-one-ROI-out technique. Classifications in optimal feature subspaces with lower dimensionality and reduction to a two-class problem were studied as well. RESULTS: Comparison with a reference established by the classifications of three radiologists shows excellent performance of the classifiers, even though extremely dense breasts continue to remain more difficult to classify accurately. For the two best classifiers, the exact agreement percentages are 76% and above, and weighted kappa values are 0.78 and 0.83. Furthermore, classification in lower dimensional spaces and two-class problems give excellent results. CONCLUSION: The proposed semiautomatic classifiers method provides an objective and reproducible method for characterizing breast density, especially for the two-class case. It represents a simple and valuable tool that could be used in screening programs, training, education, or for optimizing image processing in diagnostic tasks.
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Algorithms, Bayes Theorem, Breast/pathology, Breast Neoplasms/radiography, Databases as Topic, Discriminant Analysis, Female, Humans, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted/statistics & numerical data, Knowledge Bases, Mammography/classification, Pattern Recognition, Automated, Radiographic Image Enhancement, Radiology, Risk Factors
Pubmed
Web of science
Open Access
Oui
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25/04/2008 18:11
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20/08/2019 16:26
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