Title
Diagnosis of masses in mammographic images based on Zernike moments and local binary attributes
Abstract
Masses are important elements in the diagnosis of breast cancer. Many studies discussed the problem of detection and/or diagnosis of masses and most of these researches were based on shape descriptors to make decision. Textural descriptors contribute in indicating the presence of masses. Morphological descriptors determine their malignancy degree. Thus, we decided in our work to make a combination of morphological and textural descriptors. In fact, this method allowed us to extract different features in order to help make a decision concerning the malignancy of masses. The shape descriptor “Zernike moments” has the advantages to be invariant to the rotation and to be orthogonal. In addition, the texture descriptor “local binary attributes” provides information about the local variations of gray levels in the image. A multi-layer perceptron is used in the classification stage. The results were validated by using 160 regions of interest which are extracted from the database of mammographic images DDSM (Digital Database for Screening Mammography). We obtained an area under the ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristics) curve which is equal to 0,96. The results were confirmed by a radiologist.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/WCCIT.2013.6618683
Computer and Information Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
Zernike polynomials,biological organs,cancer,image classification,image texture,mammography,medical image processing,shape recognition,visual databases,ROC curve,Zernike moments,breast cancer,digital database for screening mammography,image classification stage,image gray levels,local binary attributes,malignancy degree,mammographic image DDSM database,mammographic images,mass diagnosis,morphological descriptors,multilayer perceptron,receiver operating characteristics curve,shape descriptors,textural descriptors,Breast cancer,Zernike moments,computer aided diagnosis,local binary attributes,malignancy,mammography
Computer vision,Mammography,Texture Descriptor,Receiver operating characteristic,Pattern recognition,Image texture,Computer science,Zernike polynomials,Invariant (mathematics),Artificial intelligence,Contextual image classification,Perceptron
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISBN
3
4
978-1-4799-0460-0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.43
6
Authors
4