Automatic Mammographic Parenchyma Classification According to BIRADS Dictionary

Internal density of the breast is a parameter that clearly affects the performance of segmentation and classification algorithms to define abnormality regions. Recent studies have shown that their sensitivity is significantly decreased as the density of the breast is increased. In this chapter, enhancement and segmentation process is applied to increase the computation and focus on mammographic parenchyma. This parenchyma is analyzed to discriminate tissue density according to BIRADS using Local Binary Pattern (LBP), Gray Level Co-Occurrence Matrix (GLCM), Fractal Dimension (FD), and feature fusion technique is applied to maximize and enhance the performance of the classifier rate. The different methods for computing tissue density parameter are reviewed, and the authors also present and exhaustively evaluate algorithms using computer vision techniques. The experimental results based on confusion matrix and kappa coefficient show a higher accuracy is obtained by automatic agreement classification.

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