Breast cancer diagnosis in digital mammogram using multiscale curvelet transform

This paper presents an approach for breast cancer diagnosis in digital mammogram using curvelet transform. After decomposing the mammogram images in curvelet basis, a special set of the biggest coefficients is extracted as feature vector. The Euclidean distance is then used to construct a supervised...

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Main Authors: M.M., Eltoukhy, I., Faye, B.B., Samir
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Language:English
Published: 2010
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description This paper presents an approach for breast cancer diagnosis in digital mammogram using curvelet transform. After decomposing the mammogram images in curvelet basis, a special set of the biggest coefficients is extracted as feature vector. The Euclidean distance is then used to construct a supervised classifier. The experimental results gave a 98.59% classification accuracy rate, which indicate that curvelet transformation is a promising tool for analysis and classification of digital mammograms. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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spelling oai:scholars.utp.edu.my:3882017-01-19T08:24:49Z http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/388/ Breast cancer diagnosis in digital mammogram using multiscale curvelet transform M.M., Eltoukhy I., Faye B.B., Samir TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science This paper presents an approach for breast cancer diagnosis in digital mammogram using curvelet transform. After decomposing the mammogram images in curvelet basis, a special set of the biggest coefficients is extracted as feature vector. The Euclidean distance is then used to construct a supervised classifier. The experimental results gave a 98.59% classification accuracy rate, which indicate that curvelet transformation is a promising tool for analysis and classification of digital mammograms. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 2010 Article NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/388/1/10-BreastCancerDiag-Curv_1.pdf M.M., Eltoukhy and I., Faye and B.B., Samir (2010) Breast cancer diagnosis in digital mammogram using multiscale curvelet transform. Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics. ISSN 8956111
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
M.M., Eltoukhy
I., Faye
B.B., Samir
Breast cancer diagnosis in digital mammogram using multiscale curvelet transform
title Breast cancer diagnosis in digital mammogram using multiscale curvelet transform
title_full Breast cancer diagnosis in digital mammogram using multiscale curvelet transform
title_fullStr Breast cancer diagnosis in digital mammogram using multiscale curvelet transform
title_full_unstemmed Breast cancer diagnosis in digital mammogram using multiscale curvelet transform
title_short Breast cancer diagnosis in digital mammogram using multiscale curvelet transform
title_sort breast cancer diagnosis in digital mammogram using multiscale curvelet transform
topic TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
url http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/388/
http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/388/1/10-BreastCancerDiag-Curv_1.pdf