Title
Retrieval Of Reference Images Of Breast Masses On Mammograms By Similarity Space Modeling
Abstract
Presentation of reference images that are similar to a query image can be helpful in medical image diagnosis and treatment planning. The purpose of this study is to investigate a method for retrieving relevant images of breast masses on mammograms as a diagnostic reference. In our previous studies, subjective similarities for pairs of masses were obtained from experienced radiologists and used as the gold standard for retrieving visually similar images. By use of multidimensional scaling, a subjective similarity space was spanned so that masses that were placed close to a query image can be retrieved as reference images. This method, however, required manual outlines of masses for image feature determination In this study, we modelled this similarity space using convolutional neural network. The result was evaluated using the leave-one-out cross validation method in terms of the correlation between the subjective ratings and determined similarity measures. The relevance of retrieved images was also evaluated in terms of the precision, which is the fraction of pathology matched images in the retrieved images. The correlation coefficient between the subjective ratings and the determined similarity measure was moderate with 0.735, which was slightly lower than those of the previous methods. The average precision was high with 0.852 when the most similar image was retrieved, which was higher than those in the previous studies. The results indicate the potential usefulness of the proposed method in similar image retrieval of breast masses on mammograms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1117/12.2318717
14TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON BREAST IMAGING (IWBI 2018)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Image similarity, image retrieval, mammography, breast masses, convolutional neural network, multidimensional scaling
Conference
10718
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0277-786X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chisako Muramatsu131735.56
Shunichi Higuchi200.68
Takako Morita3177.08
Mikinao Oiwa483.11
Tomonori Kawasaki500.34
Hiroshi Fujita631.24