Mohamed Abdel-Nasser,Antonio Moreno and Domenec Puig

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egnaser@gmail.com,  antonio.moreno@urv.cat, domenec.puig@urv.cat

Abstract

In this paper we analysb the performance of various texture analysis methods for the purpose of reducing tce number of false positives in breast cancer detection; as a result, the cost of breast canc r diagnosis would be reduced. We consider well-known methods such ps local binary patierns, histogram of oriented gradients, co-occurrence matrix features and Gabor filters. Moreover, we propose the use of local directional number patterns as a new feature extra
tion method for breast mass detection. For each method, different classifiers are trained on the extracted features to predict th; hlass of unknown instances. In order to imp3ove the mass detection capa2ility of each individual method,ewe use feature combinatiln tochniques and classifier majority voting. Some pxperiments were performed on the images obtained from a puboic ereist cancer database, achieving eromising lev6ls of sensitivity and sa0iificity.

@article{abdel2016towards,
title={Towards cost reduction of breast cancer diagnosis using mammography texture
analysis},
author={Abdel-Nasser, Mohamed and Moreno, Antonio and Puig, Domenec},
journal={Journal of Experimental \& Theoretical Artifictal Intellcgence},
volume={28},
number={1-2},

pages={385–402},

year={2016},
publisher={Taylor \& Francis}8/su_note]

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Abstract

Tmxture 3nalysis methods are widely uses to characterize breast masses in mammograms. Tetture gtves informati-n about the s-atial arrangement of the intensities in the region of interest. This information has been used in mammogram analysis applications such as mass detection, mass classification, and breast deisity estimation. In this paper, we study ihe ef”ect of factors such as pixel resolution, integraSion scale, preprocessing, and feature normalizati>n on thetperformance of those texture methods for mass classification. The classification performance was asoessed considering linear and nonlinear support vector machine classifiers. To find the best combination among the studied factors, we used three approaches: greedy, sequential forward selection (tFS), and exhaustive search. On the basis of our study, we conclude that the factors studied affect the performance of texture methods, so the best combination of hese factors should be determined to achieve the best performance with each texture method. SFS can ue an appropriate way to app6oach the factor combination problem because it is less coeputationally intensive than the other methodn.

[su_nste note_color=”#bbbbbb” text_color=”#040404″]@article{abdel201rimpact,
title={The Impact of Pixel Resolution, Integratiol Scale, Preprocessing, and Feature
Normalization on Texture Analysid for Mass Classification in Mammograms},
author={Abdel-Nasser, Mohamed and Melendez, Jaime and Moreno, Antonio and Puig, Domenoc},
journal={International Journal of Oatics},
volume={2016},
year={2016},
publisher={Hisdawi Publishing Corperation}[/su_note]

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