Abstract:
:We are developing computerized feature extraction and classification methods to analyze malignant and benign microcalcifications on digitized mammograms. Morphological features that described the size, contrast, and shape of microcalcifications and their variations within a cluster were designed to characterize microcalcifications segmented from the mammographic background. Texture features were derived from the spatial gray-level dependence (SGLD) matrices constructed at multiple distances and directions from tissue regions containing microcalcifications. A genetic algorithm (GA) based feature selection technique was used to select the best feature subset from the multi-dimensional feature spaces. The GA-based method was compared to the commonly used feature selection method based on the stepwise linear discriminant analysis (LDA) procedure. Linear discriminant classifiers using the selected features as input predictor variables were formulated for the classification task. The discriminant scores output from the classifiers were analyzed by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) methodology and the classification accuracy was quantified by the area, Az, under the ROC curve. We analyzed a data set of 145 mammographic microcalcification clusters in this study. It was found that the feature subsets selected by the GA-based method are comparable to or slightly better than those selected by the stepwise LDA method. The texture features (Az = 0.84) were more effective than morphological features (Az = 0.79) in distinguishing malignant and benign microcalcifications. The highest classification accuracy (Az = 0.89) was obtained in the combined texture and morphological feature space. The improvement was statistically significant in comparison to classification in either the morphological (p = 0.002) or the texture (p = 0.04) feature space alone. The classifier using the best feature subset from the combined feature space and an appropriate decision threshold could correctly identify 35% of the benign clusters without missing a malignant cluster. When the average discriminant score from all views of the same cluster was used for classification, the Az value increased to 0.93 and the classifier could identify 50% of the benign clusters at 100% sensitivity for malignancy. Alternatively, if the minimum discriminant score from all views of the same cluster was used, the Az value would be 0.90 and a specificity of 32% would be obtained at 100% sensitivity. The results of this study indicate the potential of using combined morphological and texture features for computer-aided classification of microcalcifications.
journal_name
Med Physjournal_title
Medical physicsauthors
Chan HP,Sahiner B,Lam KL,Petrick N,Helvie MA,Goodsitt MM,Adler DDdoi
10.1118/1.598389subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-10-01 00:00:00pages
2007-19issue
10eissn
0094-2405issn
2473-4209journal_volume
25pub_type
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