Classification of micro-calcification in mammograms using scalable linear Fisher discriminant analysis.

Breast cancer is one of the major causes of death in women. Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems are being developed to assist radiologists in early diagnosis. Micro-calcifications can be an early symptom of breast cancer. Besides detection, classification of micro-calcification as benign or malig...

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Publicado en:Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing Vol. 56; no. 8; pp. 1475 - 1486
Autores principales: Suhail, Zobia, Denton, Erika R. E., Zwiggelaar, Reyer
Formato: Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Aug2018
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Sumario:Breast cancer is one of the major causes of death in women. Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems are being developed to assist radiologists in early diagnosis. Micro-calcifications can be an early symptom of breast cancer. Besides detection, classification of micro-calcification as benign or malignant is essential in a complete CAD system. We have developed a novel method for the classification of benign and malignant micro-calcification using an improved Fisher Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) approach for the linear transformation of segmented micro-calcification data in combination with a Support Vector Machine (SVM) variant to classify between the two classes. The results indicate an average accuracy equal to 96% which is comparable to state-of-the art methods in the literature. Graphical Abstract Classification of Micro-calcification in Mammograms using Scalable Linear Fisher Discriminant Analysis.