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RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:The goal of this article is to analyze and compare the performance of a developed mass computer-aided detection (CAD) system that takes breast density information into account when using manual or automatic breast density annotations in the training step. The advantages of considering this breast density information will be highlighted. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The image database used in this article is 92 mediolateral oblique (MLO) and 92 craniocaudal (CC) mammograms obtained by a full-field digital mammographic unit. All mammograms contain at least one mass. The evaluation of the experiments is performed using free receiver operating characteristic analysis for evaluating the detection performance and pixel-based receiver operating characteristic analysis for evaluating the segmentation accuracy. In addition, the performance of the automatic breast density classifier is shown using confusion matrices. RESULTS:When the breast density information is not considered and at a specificity of two false positives per image, the sensitivity obtained by the CAD system is 0.747 for the CC views and 0.853 for the MLO views. Considering the breast density information, the sensitivity for CC and MLO mammograms increases to 0.800 and 0.893, respectively, using manual classification, and 0.827 and 0.907, respectively, using automatic estimation. The same trend is observed when evaluating the CAD segmentation accuracy for detected masses in terms of area under the curve values: without considering breast density, these are 0.920 +/- 0.057 and 0.917 +/- 0.072; using manual classification, 0.934 +/- 0.039 and 0.932 +/- 0.046; and using automatic estimation, 0.947 +/- 0.038 and 0.946 +/- 0.045 for CC and MLO views, respectively. CONCLUSIONS:The experiments showed improved results when breast density information was taken into account. Moreover, the results obtained when using automatic breast density estimation outperformed those based on the manual annotations provided by expert radiologists. In this sense, the experiments showed that breast density information can be beneficial for CAD systems, and this information can be estimated robustly by an automatic procedure, which reduces the inter- and intra-class variability of the radiologists.
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Acad Radioljournal_title
Academic radiologyauthors
Oliver A,Lladó X,Freixenet J,Martí R,Pérez E,Pont J,Zwiggelaar Rdoi
10.1016/j.acra.2010.04.013subject
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2010-07-01 00:00:00pages
877-83issue
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1076-6332issn
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