A Statistical Based Feature Extraction Method for Breast Cancer Diagnosis in Digital Mammogram Using Multiresolution Representation

This paper presents a method for breast cancer diagnosis in digital mammogram images. The wavelet is used to transform the mammogram images into a long vector of coefficients. A matrix is constructed by putting wavelet coefficients of each image in row vector, where the number of row is the num...

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Main Authors: Brahim Belhaouari, samir, Ibrahima, faye, Mohamed, meselhy
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/2171/
http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/2171/1/Paper_USA.pdf
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Summary:This paper presents a method for breast cancer diagnosis in digital mammogram images. The wavelet is used to transform the mammogram images into a long vector of coefficients. A matrix is constructed by putting wavelet coefficients of each image in row vector, where the number of row is the number of images, and the number of columns is the number of coefficients. A feature extraction method is developed based on the statistical ttest method. The method is ranking the columns (features) according to its capability to distinguish between the different classes. The method depends on extracting the features that can maximize the ability to discriminate between different classes. Thus, the dimensionality of data features is reduced and the classification accuracy rate is improved. Then a dynamic threshold is applied to optimize the number of feature which can achieve the maximum classification accuracy rate. Support vector machine (SVM) is used to classify between the normal and abnormal and to distinguish between benign and malignant. The obtained classification accuracy rates reach to 100%.