Classification of Microcalcification Clusters in Digital Mammograms Using a Stack Generalization Based Classifier

This paper presents a machine learning based approach for the discrimination of malignant and benign microcalcification (MC) clusters in digital mammograms. A series of morphological operations was carried out to facilitate the feature extraction from segmented microcalcification. A combination of morphological, texture, and distribution features from individual MC components and MC clusters were extracted and a correlation-based feature selection technique was used. The clinical relevance of the selected features is discussed. The proposed method was evaluated using three different databases: Optimam Mammography Image Database (OMI-DB), Digital Database for Screening Mammography (DDSM), and Mammographic Image Analysis Society (MIAS) database. The best classification accuracy ( 95.00 ± 0.57 %) was achieved for OPTIMAM using a stack generalization classifier with 10-fold cross validation obtaining an A z value equal to 0.97 ± 0.01.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:5

Enthalten in:

Journal of imaging - 5(2019), 9 vom: 12. Sept.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Alam, Nashid [VerfasserIn]
R E Denton, Erika [VerfasserIn]
Zwiggelaar, Reyer [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Classification
Digital mammogram
Journal Article
Microcalcification
Morphological features
Stack generalization

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Date Revised 03.09.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/jimaging5090076

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM330034359