Title
Development of breast ultrasound CAD system for screening
Abstract
Mass screening of breast cancer utilizing mammography (MMG) has been widely carried out. However, MMG might not be able to depict small impalpable masses in dense breast tissue clearly. We have developed a computer-aided detection (CAD) scheme in whole breast ultrasound (US) system for mass screening which has been developed by ALOKA CO., LTD., Japan. Our CAD scheme and image processing techniques have the following three benefits. Indication of mass candidates by our CAD scheme. Visualization of breast US images in two views of B-planes (CC View and ML View) and C-plane. Comparison of left and right breast images as in MMG. The performance of the CAD scheme in detecting malignant masses on an initial study has a true positive fraction of 0.91 (10/11) at a 0.69 (633/924) false positive per image. Although mass screening utilizing US was not appropriate because images acquired by conventional hand probe were poor in reproduction, the problem could be solved in our system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/11783237_53
Digital Mammography / IWDM
Keywords
Field
DocType
mass candidate,breast cancer,dense breast tissue,cc view,whole breast ultrasound,right breast image,cad scheme,breast ultrasound cad system,ml view,mass screening,breast us image,false positive,ultrasound
CAD,Breast ultrasound,Canny edge detector,Mammography,Breast cancer,Visualization,Image processing,Radiology,Medicine,Ultrasound
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4046
0302-9743
3-540-35625-8
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.43
4
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daisuke Fukuoka1417.37
Yuji Ikedo2365.43
Takeshi Hara363979.10
Hiroshi Fujita410.43
Etsuo Takada5164.31
Tokiko Endo610.43
Takako Morita7177.08