Title
Topological texture-based method for mass detection in breast ultrasound image.
Abstract
Texture analysis plays an important role in many image processing tasks. In this work, we present a texture descriptor based on the topology of excursion sets, derived from the concept of Minkowski functionals, and evaluate their usefulness in the detection of breast masses in 2D breast ultrasound images. The application includes three major stages: preprocessing, including candidate generation through computation of gradient concentration under a Fisher-Tippet noise model (in itself another contribution of the paper); texture feature extraction; and region classification using a Random Forests classifier. Performance of the proposed method is evaluated on 135 2D BUS images with 139 masses. Our method reaches 91% sensitivity with an averaged 1.19 false detections, and the proposed texture feature compares favorably against the often-used grey level co-occurrence matrices on the exact the same task.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ISBI.2014.6867963
ISBI
Keywords
Field
DocType
CAD, Breast Cancer, Texture
Breast ultrasound,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Artificial intelligence
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1945-7928
1
0.43
References 
Authors
5
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fei Zhao110.43
Xiaoxing Li210.43
Soma Biswas340928.08
Rakesh Mullick47114.86
Paulo R. S. Mendonça561050.38
Vivek Vaidya610.43