Title
Mammographic mass classification based on possibility theory.
Abstract
Shape and margin features are very important for differentiating between benign and malignant masses in mammographic images. In fact, benign masses are usually round and oval and have smooth contours. However, malignant tumors have generally irregular shape and appear lobulated or spiculated in margins. This knowledge suffers from imprecision and ambiguity. Therefore, this paper deals with the problem of mass classification by using shape and margin features while taking into account the uncertainty linked to the degree of truth of the available information and the imprecision related to its content. Thus, in this work, we proposed a novel mass classification approach which provides a possibility based representation of the extracted shape features and builds a possibility knowledge basis in order to evaluate the possibility degree of malignancy and benignity for each mass. For experimentation, the MIAS database was used and the classification results show the great performance of our approach in spite of using simple features.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1117/12.2268700
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Mammography,shape features,possibility theory,mass classification,feature extraction
Data mining,Mammography,Pattern recognition,Mass classification,Possibility theory,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Degree of truth,Simple Features,Ambiguity,Mathematics,Benignity
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10341
0277-786X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marwa Hmida100.68
Kamel Hamrouni24121.73
Basel Solaiman312735.05
Sana Boussetta400.34