A Fusion of Neural Network Based Auto-associator and Classifier for the Classification of Microcalcification Patterns

This paper presents a novel approach to combine a neural network based auto-associator and a classifier for the classification of microcalcification patterns. It explores the auto-associative and classification abilities of a neural network approach for the classification of microcalcification patterns into benign and malignant using 14 image structure features. The proposed technique used combination of two neural networks; auto-associator and classifier for classification of microcalcification. It obtained 88.1% classification rate for testing dataset and 100% classification rate for training dataset.

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