Abstract：
:One of the most common cancer types among women is breast cancer. Regular mammographic examinations increase the possibility for early diagnosis and treatment and significantly improve the chance of survival for patients with breast cancer. Clustered microcalcifications have been considered as important indicators of the presence of breast cancer. We present "Hippocrates-mst", a prototype system for computer-aided risk assessment of breast cancer. Our research has been focused in developing software to locate microcalcifications on X-ray mammography images, quantify their critical features and classify them according to their probability of being cancerous. A total of 260 cases (187 benign and 73 malignant) have been examined and the performance of the prototype is presented through receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis. The system is showing high levels of sensitivity identifying correctly 98.63% of malignant cases.
journal_name
Med Biol Eng Computjournal_title
Medical & biological engineering & computingauthors
Spyrou G,Kapsimalakou S,Frigas A,Koufopoulos K,Vassilaros S,Ligomenides Pdoi
10.1007/s11517-006-0117-2subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2006-11-01 00:00:00pages
1007-15issue
11eissn
0140-0118issn
1741-0444journal_volume
44pub_type
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