2008 21st IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
Computerized Classification of Breast Tumors with Morphologic and Texture Features of Ultrasonic Images
June 17-June 19
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3165-6
A computerized classification based on morphologic and texture features is proposed to increase the accuracy of the ultrasonic diagnosis of breast tumors. Firstly, tumor boundaries are obtained with the gray-level threshold segmentation algorithm and the dynamic programming method. Then five morphologic features and two texture features are extracted. Finally, an artificial neural network with the error back propagation algorithm is applied to classify breast tumors as benign or malignant. Experiments on 168 cases show that the proposed system yields the high accuracy, sensitivity and specificity. Therefore, it is concluded that this system performs well in the ultrasonic classification of breast tumors.
Index Terms:
Computerized Classification, Breast Tumors, Ultrasonic Images
Citation:
Yuanyuan Wang, Jialin Shen, Yi Guo, Weiqi Wang, "Computerized Classification of Breast Tumors with Morphologic and Texture Features of Ultrasonic Images," cbms, pp.23-28, 2008 21st IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2008