Pectoral Muscle Detection in Mammograms Using Local Statistical Features.

Mammography is a primary imaging method for breast cancer diagnosis. It is an important issue to accurately identify and separate pectoral muscles (PM) from breast tissues. Hough-transform-based methods are commonly adopted for PM detection. But their performances are susceptible when PM edges canno...

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Publicado en:Journal of Digital Imaging Vol. 27; no. 5; pp. 633 - 642
Autores principales: Liu, Li, Liu, Qian, Lu, Wei
Formato: diagnostic images equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Oct2014
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          Mammography
          Pectoralis Muscles
          Radiographic Image Enhancement Methods
          Algorithms Evaluation
          Evaluation Research
          Interrater Reliability
          Intrarater Reliability
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      ab: Mammography is a primary imaging method for breast cancer diagnosis. It is an important issue to accurately identify and separate pectoral muscles (PM) from breast tissues. Hough-transform-based methods are commonly adopted for PM detection. But their performances are susceptible when PM edges cannot be depicted by straight lines. In this study, we present a new pectoral muscle identification algorithm which utilizes statistical features of pixel responses. First, the Anderson-Darling goodness-of-fit test is used to extract a feature image by assuming non-Gaussianity for PM boundaries. Second, a global weighting scheme based on the location of PM was applied onto the feature image to suppress non-PM regions. From the weighted image, a preliminary set of pectoral muscles boundary components is detected via row-wise peak detection. An iterative procedure based on the edge continuity and orientation is used to determine the final PM boundary. Our results on a public mammogram database were assessed using four performance metrics: the false positive rate, the false negative rate, the Hausdorff distance, and the average distance. Compared to previous studies, our method demonstrates the state-of-art performance in terms of four measures.
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