Title
Regularization in retrieval-driven classification of clustered microcalcifications for breast cancer.
Abstract
We propose a regularization based approach for case-adaptive classification in computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) of breast cancer. The goal is to improve the classification accuracy on a query case by making use of a set of similar cases retrieved from an existing library of known cases. In the proposed approach, a prior is first derived from a traditional CAD classifier (which is typically pre-trained offline on a set of training cases). It is then used together with the retrieved similar cases to obtain an adaptive classifier on the query case. We consider two different forms for the regularization prior: one is fixed for all query cases and the other is allowed to vary with different query cases. In the experiments the proposed approach is demonstrated on a dataset of 1,006 clinical cases. The results show that it could achieve significant improvement in numerical efficiency compared with a previously proposed case adaptive approach (by about an order of magnitude) while maintaining similar (or better) improvement in classification accuracy; it could also adapt faster in performance with a small number of retrieved cases. Measured by the area of under the ROC curve (AUC), the regularization based approach achieved AUC = 0.8215, compared with AUC = 0.7329 for the baseline classifier (P-value = 0.001).
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1155/2012/463408
Int. J. Biomedical Imaging
Keywords
Field
DocType
retrieval-driven classification,adaptive classifier,baseline classifier,query case,clinical case,case-adaptive classification,similar case,breast cancer,different query case,classification accuracy,case adaptive approach
Small number,CAD,Data mining,Text mining,Breast cancer,Computer science,Regularization (mathematics),Classifier (linguistics)
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2012
1687-4196
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hao Jing193.46
Yongyi Yang21409140.74
Robert M Nishikawa359958.25