Artificial neural networks in image processing for early detection of breast cancer

Medical imaging techniques have widely been in use in the diagnosis and detection of breast cancer. The drawback of applying these techniques is the large time consumption in the manual diagnosis of each image pattern by a professional radiologist. Automated classifiers could substantially upgrade t...

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Main Authors: Mehdy, Mehdy Mwaffeq, Ng, Paul Yong, Shair, Ezreen Farina, Md Saleh, Nur Izzati, Gomes, Gorakanage Ashen Indimal
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Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017
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http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/60928/1/Artificial%20neural%20networks%20in%20image%20processing%20for%20early%20detection%20of%20breast%20cancer.pdf
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author Mehdy, Mehdy Mwaffeq
Ng, Paul Yong
Shair, Ezreen Farina
Md Saleh, Nur Izzati
Gomes, Gorakanage Ashen Indimal
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Ng, Paul Yong
Shair, Ezreen Farina
Md Saleh, Nur Izzati
Gomes, Gorakanage Ashen Indimal
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description Medical imaging techniques have widely been in use in the diagnosis and detection of breast cancer. The drawback of applying these techniques is the large time consumption in the manual diagnosis of each image pattern by a professional radiologist. Automated classifiers could substantially upgrade the diagnosis process, in terms of both accuracy and time requirement by distinguishing benign and malignant patterns automatically. Neural network (NN) plays an important role in this respect, especially in the application of breast cancer detection. Despite the large number of publications that describe the utilization of NN in various medical techniques, only a few reviews are available that guide the development of these algorithms to enhance the detection techniques with respect to specificity and sensitivity. The purpose of this review is to analyze the contents of recently published literature with special attention to techniques and states of the art of NN in medical imaging. We discuss the usage of NN in four different medical imaging applications to show that NN is not restricted to few areas of medicine. Types of NN used, along with the various types of feeding data, have been reviewed. We also address hybrid NN adaptation in breast cancer detection.
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spelling upm-609282019-03-21T09:00:01Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/60928/ Artificial neural networks in image processing for early detection of breast cancer Mehdy, Mehdy Mwaffeq Ng, Paul Yong Shair, Ezreen Farina Md Saleh, Nur Izzati Gomes, Gorakanage Ashen Indimal Medical imaging techniques have widely been in use in the diagnosis and detection of breast cancer. The drawback of applying these techniques is the large time consumption in the manual diagnosis of each image pattern by a professional radiologist. Automated classifiers could substantially upgrade the diagnosis process, in terms of both accuracy and time requirement by distinguishing benign and malignant patterns automatically. Neural network (NN) plays an important role in this respect, especially in the application of breast cancer detection. Despite the large number of publications that describe the utilization of NN in various medical techniques, only a few reviews are available that guide the development of these algorithms to enhance the detection techniques with respect to specificity and sensitivity. The purpose of this review is to analyze the contents of recently published literature with special attention to techniques and states of the art of NN in medical imaging. We discuss the usage of NN in four different medical imaging applications to show that NN is not restricted to few areas of medicine. Types of NN used, along with the various types of feeding data, have been reviewed. We also address hybrid NN adaptation in breast cancer detection. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/60928/1/Artificial%20neural%20networks%20in%20image%20processing%20for%20early%20detection%20of%20breast%20cancer.pdf Mehdy, Mehdy Mwaffeq and Ng, Paul Yong and Shair, Ezreen Farina and Md Saleh, Nur Izzati and Gomes, Gorakanage Ashen Indimal (2017) Artificial neural networks in image processing for early detection of breast cancer. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine (2610628). pp. 1-15. ISSN 1748-670X; ESSN: 1748-6718 https://www.hindawi.com/journals/cmmm/2017/2610628/ 10.1155/2017/2610628
spellingShingle Mehdy, Mehdy Mwaffeq
Ng, Paul Yong
Shair, Ezreen Farina
Md Saleh, Nur Izzati
Gomes, Gorakanage Ashen Indimal
Artificial neural networks in image processing for early detection of breast cancer
title Artificial neural networks in image processing for early detection of breast cancer
title_full Artificial neural networks in image processing for early detection of breast cancer
title_fullStr Artificial neural networks in image processing for early detection of breast cancer
title_full_unstemmed Artificial neural networks in image processing for early detection of breast cancer
title_short Artificial neural networks in image processing for early detection of breast cancer
title_sort artificial neural networks in image processing for early detection of breast cancer
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