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Abstract | ||
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Spiculation is a stellate distortion caused by the intrusion of breast cancer into surrounding tissue. Its existence is an important clue to characterizing malignant tumors. Many successful mammographic methods have been proposed to detect tumors with spiculation. Traditional two-dimensional (2-D) ultrasound cannot easily find spiculations because spiculations normally appear parallel to the surface of the skin. Recently, three-dimensional (3-D) ultrasound has been gradually used in clinical applications and it has been proven to be useful in determining the architectural distortion or spiculation that surrounds a breast tumor. This paper aims to identify spiculation from 3-D ultrasonic volume data of a tumor found by a physician. In the proposed method, each coronal slice of volume data is successively extracted and then analyzed as a 2-D ultrasound image by the proposed spiculation detection method. First, in each horizontal slice, the modified rotating structuring element (ROSE) operation is used to find the central region in which spiculation lines converge. Second, the stick algorithm is used to estimate the direction of the edge of each pixel around the central region. A pixel whose edge points toward the central region is marked as a potential spiculation. Finally, the marked pixels are collected around the central region and their distribution is analyzed to determine whether spiculation is present. The 3-D test datasets were obtained using the Voluson 530 or 730, Kretztechnik, Austria. First, the proposed method was tested on 104 2-D typical coronal images (selected by an experienced physician) extracted from 52 3-D ultrasonic datasets. Finally, 225 3-D pathologically proven datasets were tested to evaluate the performance. Spiculations are more easily observed in the coronal view than in the other two views. That is, the 3-D ultrasound is a powerful tool for identifying spiculations. Furthermore, 16% (19/120) of benign cases and 90% (94/105) of malignant cases are detected as spiculations. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2004 | 10.1109/TMI.2003.819918 | IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
mammography,coronal slice,breast cancer intrusion,malignant tumors,modified rotating structuring element operation,biomedical ultrasonics,kretztechnik,stellate distortion,mammographic methods,voluson 530,tissue,cancer,feature extraction,spiculation,ultrasound lesions,tumours,austria,stick algorithm,medical image processing,voluson 730,ultrasound,three dimensional,breast cancer | Ultrasonic sensor,Mammography,Computer vision,Coronal plane,Feature extraction,Structuring element,Artificial intelligence,Pixel,Distortion,Mathematics,Ultrasound | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
23 | 1 | 0278-0062 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
13 | 1.20 | 7 |
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4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Sheng-Fang Huang | 1 | 27 | 3.11 |
| Ruey-Feng Chang | 2 | 395 | 34.88 |
| Dar-Ren Chen | 3 | 52 | 5.14 |
| Woo Kyung Moon | 4 | 299 | 19.46 |