Support vector machine learning for detection of microcalcifications in mammograms

I. El-Naqa1, Yongyi Yang1, M.N. Wernick1, N.P. Galatsanos1, R. Nishikawa2,1
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA
2Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Tóm tắt

Microcalcification (MC) clusters in mammograms can be an indicator of breast cancer. In this work we propose for the first time the use of support vector machine (SVM) learning for automated detection of MCs in digitized mammograms. In the proposed framework, MC detection is formulated as a supervised-learning problem and the method of SVM is employed to develop the detection algorithm. The proposed method is developed and evaluated using a database of 76 mammograms containing 1120 MCs. To evaluate detection performance, free-response receiver operating characteristic (FROC) curves are used. Experimental results demonstrate that, when compared to several other existing methods, the proposed SVM framework offers the best performance.

Từ khóa

#Support vector machines #Machine learning #Support vector machine classification #Breast cancer #Risk management #Radiology #Detection algorithms #Databases #Calcium #Breast tissue

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