3D segmentation of breast tumor in ultrasound images

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jong In Kwak ◽  
Mal Nam Jung ◽  
Sang Hyun Kim ◽  
Nam Chul Kim
Keyword(s):  
Breast Tumor ◽  
Ultrasound Images ◽  
3D Segmentation

Gaussian Dropout Based Stacked Ensemble CNN for Classification of Breast Tumor in Ultrasound Images

IRBM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Karthik ◽  
R. Menaka ◽  
G.S. Kathiresan ◽  
M. Anirudh ◽  
M. Nagharjun
Keyword(s):  
Breast Tumor ◽  
Ultrasound Images

scholarly journals A Benign and Malignant Breast Tumor Classification Method via Efficiently Combining Texture and Morphological Features on Ultrasound Images

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Mengwan Wei ◽  
Yongzhao Du ◽  
Xiuming Wu ◽  
Qichen Su ◽  
Jianqing Zhu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Tumor ◽  
Texture Features ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
High Dimensional ◽  
Svm Classifier ◽  
Ultrasound Images ◽  
Malignant Breast Tumor ◽  
Malignant Breast ◽  
Low Dimensional

The classification of benign and malignant based on ultrasound images is of great value because breast cancer is an enormous threat to women’s health worldwide. Although both texture and morphological features are crucial representations of ultrasound breast tumor images, their straightforward combination brings little effect for improving the classification of benign and malignant since high-dimensional texture features are too aggressive so that drown out the effect of low-dimensional morphological features. For that, an efficient texture and morphological feature combing method is proposed to improve the classification of benign and malignant. Firstly, both texture (i.e., local binary patterns (LBP), histogram of oriented gradients (HOG), and gray-level co-occurrence matrixes (GLCM)) and morphological (i.e., shape complexities) features of breast ultrasound images are extracted. Secondly, a support vector machine (SVM) classifier working on texture features is trained, and a naive Bayes (NB) classifier acting on morphological features is designed, in order to exert the discriminative power of texture features and morphological features, respectively. Thirdly, the classification scores of the two classifiers (i.e., SVM and NB) are weighted fused to obtain the final classification result. The low-dimensional nonparameterized NB classifier is effectively control the parameter complexity of the entire classification system combine with the high-dimensional parametric SVM classifier. Consequently, texture and morphological features are efficiently combined. Comprehensive experimental analyses are presented, and the proposed method obtains a 91.11% accuracy, a 94.34% sensitivity, and an 86.49% specificity, which outperforms many related benign and malignant breast tumor classification methods.

scholarly journals A Novel Computer-Aided-Diagnosis System for Breast Ultrasound Images Based on BI-RADS Categories

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 1830
Author(s):  
Yi-Wei Chang ◽  
Yun-Ru Chen ◽  
Chien-Chuan Ko ◽  
Wei-Yang Lin ◽  
Keng-Pei Lin
Keyword(s):  
Breast Tumor ◽  
Breast Imaging ◽  
Breast Lesion ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Breast Ultrasound ◽  
Tissue Imaging ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Ultrasound Images ◽  
Traditional Assessment ◽  
Cad System

The breast ultrasound is not only one of major devices for breast tissue imaging, but also one of important methods in breast tumor screening. It is non-radiative, non-invasive, harmless, simple, and low cost screening. The American College of Radiology (ACR) proposed the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) to evaluate far more breast lesion severities compared to traditional diagnoses according to five-criterion categories of masses composition described as follows: shape, orientation, margin, echo pattern, and posterior features. However, there exist some problems, such as intensity differences and different resolutions in image acquisition among different types of ultrasound imaging modalities so that clinicians cannot always identify accurately the BI-RADS categories or disease severities. To this end, this article adopted three different brands of ultrasound scanners to fetch breast images for our experimental samples. The breast lesion was detected on the original image using preprocessing, image segmentation, etc. The breast tumor’s severity was evaluated on the features of the breast lesion via our proposed classifiers according to the BI-RADS standard rather than traditional assessment on the severity; i.e., merely using benign or malignant. In this work, we mainly focused on the BI-RADS categories 2–5 after the stage of segmentation as a result of the clinical practice. Moreover, several features related to lesion severities based on the selected BI-RADS categories were introduced into three machine learning classifiers, including a Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest (RF), and Convolution Neural Network (CNN) combined with feature selection to develop a multi-class assessment of breast tumor severity based on BI-RADS. Experimental results show that the proposed CAD system based on BI-RADS can obtain the identification accuracies with SVM, RF, and CNN reaching 80.00%, 77.78%, and 85.42%, respectively. We also validated the performance and adaptability of the classification using different ultrasound scanners. Results also indicate that the evaluations of F-score based on CNN can obtain measures higher than 75% (i.e., prominent adaptability) when samples were tested on various BI-RADS categories.

Multi-atlas-based automatic 3D segmentation for prostate brachytherapy in transrectal ultrasound images

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saman Nouranian ◽  
S. Sara Mahdavi ◽  
Ingrid Spadinger ◽  
William J. Morris ◽  
S. E. Salcudean ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transrectal Ultrasound ◽  
Prostate Brachytherapy ◽  
Ultrasound Images ◽  
3D Segmentation

scholarly journals Phase- and GVF-Based Level Set Segmentation of Ultrasonic Breast Tumors

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Gao ◽  
Xiaoyun Liu ◽  
Wufan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Level Set ◽  
Breast Tumor ◽  
Active Contour Model ◽  
Speckle Noise ◽  
Ultrasound Images ◽  
Low Contrast ◽  
Good Convergence ◽  
Capture Range ◽  
Edge Based ◽  
Concave Boundaries

Automatically extracting breast tumor boundaries in ultrasound images is a difficult task due to the speckle noise, the low image contrast, the variance in shapes, and the local changes of image intensity. In this paper, an improved edge-based active contour model in a variational level set formulation is proposed for semi-automatically capturing ultrasonic breast tumor boundaries. First, we apply the phase asymmetry approach to enhance the edges, and then we define a new edge stopping function, which can increase the robustness to the intensity inhomogeneities. To extend the capture range of the method and provide good convergence to boundary concavities, we use the phase information to obtain an improved edge map, which can be used to calculate the gradient vector flow (GVF). Combining the edge stopping term and the improved GVF in the level set framework, the proposed method can robustly cope with noise, and it can extract the low contrast and/or concave boundaries well. Experiments on breast ultrasound images show that the proposed method outperforms the state-of-art methods.

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