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| Abstract: | Breast cancer detection is an important social requisite as it is the leading cause of death due to cancer among women. The mortality rate of breast cancer is second among all cancers. The cause for breast cancer is not known to date and early detection & treatment are the only means to reduce breast cancer related deaths. Mammography is the main radiological tool that is employed for identifying breast cancer at the earliest stage. Computer aided techniques have great relevance in detection of abnormalities from mammographic images, as often the features associated with various abnormalities are difficult to detect and might be missed by even trained radiologists. In addition, when screening mammography is employed, a large number of mammographic images need to be checked for signs of abnormality, justifying the use of computer aided diagnosis. Three problems are addressed in this thesis: delineation of the pectoral muscle region by properly identifying the pectoral muscle boundary, detection of architectural distortion and enhancement of microcalcification features in the mammographic images. Two novel methods were developed for identifying the pectoral muscle boundary from mediolateral oblique view mammograms that employed multiscale decomposition and local segmentation. The breast area is extracted after this step following the removal of the Pectoral muscle region. The breast abnormalities are searched for in this region. Architectural distortion is the most commonly missed abnormality in mammograms. A novel method for detecting architectural distortion is proposed in this thesis that employs geometrical features obtained from selected edge structures in the mammographic image. These features are used to train a feedforward neural network classifier initialized using metaheuristic algorithms for better classification. Microcalcification is another breast cancer symptom which is ii said to be the most commonly occurring. However the visibility of the microcalcification structures is often poor, especially when they are located in dense parenchymal tissues. Therefore an algorithm is proposed to enhance such features, employing the singularities, viz. zero-crossings and modulus maxima of coefficients obtained after computing the contourlet transform of the mammographic image. Contourlet transform is employed for the directional information it provides. |
| URI: | http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in/purl/5149 |
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| Abstract: | After skin cancer, breast cancer accounts for the second greatest number of cancer diagnoses in women. Currently the etiologies of breast cancer are unknown, and there is no generally accepted therapy for preventing it. Therefore, the best way to improve the prognosis for breast cancer is early detection and treatment. Computer aided detection systems (CAD) for detecting masses or micro-calcifications in mammograms have already been used and proven to be a potentially powerful tool , so the radiologists are attracted by the effectiveness of clinical application of CAD systems. Fractal geometry is well suited for describing the complex physiological structures that defy the traditional Euclidean geometry, which is based on smooth shapes. The major contribution of this research include the development of • A new fractal feature to accurately classify mammograms into normal and normal (i)With masses (benign or malignant) (ii) with microcalcifications (benign or malignant) • A novel fast fractal modeling method to identify the presence of microcalcifications by fractal modeling of mammograms and then subtracting the modeled image from the original mammogram. The performances of these methods were evaluated using different standard statistical analysis methods. The results obtained indicate that the developed methods are highly beneficial for assisting radiologists in making diagnostic decisions. The mammograms for the study were obtained from the two online databases namely, MIAS (Mammographic Image Analysis Society) and DDSM (Digital Database for Screening Mammography. |
| Description: | Department of Electronics, Cochin University of Science and Technology |
| URI: | http://dyuthi.cusat.ac.in/purl/3047 |
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