An approach for tissue density classification in mammographic images using artificial neural network based on wavelet and curvelet transforms

Hüseyin Yaşar; Murat Ceylan

doi:10.1117/12.2178829

4 March 2015 An approach for tissue density classification in mammographic images using artificial neural network based on wavelet and curvelet transforms

Hüseyin Yaşar, Murat Ceylan

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Proceedings Volume 9443, Sixth International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing (ICGIP 2014); 94430O (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2178829
Event: Sixth International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing (ICGIP 2014), 2014, Beijing, China

Abstract

Breast cancer is one of the types of cancer which is most commonly seen in women. Density of breast is an important indicator for the risk of cancer. In addition, densities of tissue may harden the diagnosis by hiding the abnormalities occurring on the breast. For this reason, during the process of diagnosis, the process of automatic classification of breast density has a significant importance. In this study, a new system with the base of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and multiple resolution analysis is suggested. Wavelet and curvelet analyses having the most common use have been used as multi resolution analysis. 4 pieces of statistics which are minimum value, maximum value, mean value and standard deviation have been extracted from the images which have been eluted to their sub-bands via multi resolution analysis. For the purpose of testing the success of the system, 322 pieces of images which are in MIAS database have been used. The obtained results for different backgrounds are so satisfying; and the highest classification values have been obtained as 97.16 % with Wavelet transform and ANN for fatty background and 79.80 % with Wavelet transform and ANN for fatty-glanduar background. The same results have been obtained using Wavelet transform and ANN and Curvelet transform and ANN for dense background and accuracy rate of 84.82 % have been reached. The results of mean classification have been obtained, for three pieces of tissue types (fatty, fatty-glanduar, dense), in sequence as 84.47 % with the use of ANN, 85.71 % with the use of curvelet analysis and ANN; and 87.26 % with the use of wavelet analysis and ANN.

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Hüseyin Yaşar and Murat Ceylan "An approach for tissue density classification in mammographic images using artificial neural network based on wavelet and curvelet transforms", Proc. SPIE 9443, Sixth International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing (ICGIP 2014), 94430O (4 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2178829

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