Density-wise two stage mammogram classification using texture exploiting descriptors

Aditya Shastri

doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2018.01.024

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Density-wise two stage mammogram classification using texture exploiting descriptors

2018-06-01

Aditya Shastri

Deepti Tamrakar

Kapil Ahuja *

DOI：10.1016/j.eswa.2018.01.024

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Breast cancer is becoming pervasive with each passing day. Hence, its early detection is a big step in saving the life of any patient. Mammography is a common tool in breast cancer diagnosis. The most important step here is classification of mammogram patches as normal-abnormal and benign-malignant. Texture of a breast in a mammogram patch plays a significant role in these classifications. We propose a variation of Histogram of Gradients (HOG) and Gabor filter combination called Histogram of Oriented Texture (HOT) that exploits this fact. We also revisit the Pass Band - Discrete Cosine Transform (PB-DCT) descriptor that captures texture information well. All features of a mammogram patch may not be useful. Hence, we apply a feature selection technique called Discrimination Potentiality (DP). Our resulting descriptors, DP-HOT and DP-PB-DCT, are compared with the standard descriptors. Density of a mammogram patch is important for classification, and has not been studied exhaustively. The Image Retrieval in Medical Application (IRMA) database from RWTH Aachen, Germany is a standard database that provides mammogram patches, and most researchers have tested their frameworks only on a subset of patches from this database. We apply our two new descriptors on all images of the IRMA database for density wise classification, and compare with the standard descriptors. We achieve higher accuracy than all of the existing standard descriptors (more than 92%). (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Keywords:

Mammogram

Gabor filter

Histogram of gradients

Discrete Cosine Transform

Feature selection

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