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A Novel Hybrid K-Means and GMM Machine Learning Model for Breast Cancer Detection
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of death among a large number of women worldwide. It may be challenging for radiologists to diagnose and treat breast cancer. Consequently, primary care improves disease prevention and death. Early detection increases treatment options and saves life, which is the major target of this research. This research indicates the versatility of the methodology by integrating contemporary segmentation approaches with machine learning methods, which are developing areas of research. In the pre-processing process, an adaptive median filter is utilized for noise removal, enhancement of image quality, conservation of edges, and smoothing. This research makes a significant contribution by proposing a new parameter for evaluating K-means and a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) performance. A hybrid combination of segmentation and detection was applied to breast cancer. The proposed technique is significant for classifying benign and malignant tumors. The simulated results are discussed and evaluated to determine the competence of this method for the early diagnosis of breast cancer. This method allows medical experts to recognize breast cancer at a faster rate and provide higher accuracy. An ANOVA test was used to determine the multi-variant analysis and prediction rate for the proposed method
Comparative Analysis of Segment Anything Model and U-Net for Breast Tumor Detection in Ultrasound and Mammography Images
In this study, the main objective is to develop an algorithm capable of
identifying and delineating tumor regions in breast ultrasound (BUS) and
mammographic images. The technique employs two advanced deep learning
architectures, namely U-Net and pretrained SAM, for tumor segmentation. The
U-Net model is specifically designed for medical image segmentation and
leverages its deep convolutional neural network framework to extract meaningful
features from input images. On the other hand, the pretrained SAM architecture
incorporates a mechanism to capture spatial dependencies and generate
segmentation results. Evaluation is conducted on a diverse dataset containing
annotated tumor regions in BUS and mammographic images, covering both benign
and malignant tumors. This dataset enables a comprehensive assessment of the
algorithm's performance across different tumor types. Results demonstrate that
the U-Net model outperforms the pretrained SAM architecture in accurately
identifying and segmenting tumor regions in both BUS and mammographic images.
The U-Net exhibits superior performance in challenging cases involving
irregular shapes, indistinct boundaries, and high tumor heterogeneity. In
contrast, the pretrained SAM architecture exhibits limitations in accurately
identifying tumor areas, particularly for malignant tumors and objects with
weak boundaries or complex shapes. These findings highlight the importance of
selecting appropriate deep learning architectures tailored for medical image
segmentation. The U-Net model showcases its potential as a robust and accurate
tool for tumor detection, while the pretrained SAM architecture suggests the
need for further improvements to enhance segmentation performance
Breast cancer diagnosis: a survey of pre-processing, segmentation, feature extraction and classification
Machine learning methods have been an interesting method in the field of medical for many years, and they have achieved successful results in various fields of medical science. This paper examines the effects of using machine learning algorithms in the diagnosis and classification of breast cancer from mammography imaging data. Cancer diagnosis is the identification of images as cancer or non-cancer, and this involves image preprocessing, feature extraction, classification, and performance analysis. This article studied 93 different references mentioned in the previous years in the field of processing and tries to find an effective way to diagnose and classify breast cancer. Based on the results of this research, it can be concluded that most of today’s successful methods focus on the use of deep learning methods. Finding a new method requires an overview of existing methods in the field of deep learning methods in order to make a comparison and case study
A New Computer-Aided Diagnosis System with Modified Genetic Feature Selection for BI-RADS Classification of Breast Masses in Mammograms
Mammography remains the most prevalent imaging tool for early breast cancer
screening. The language used to describe abnormalities in mammographic reports
is based on the breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS). Assigning a
correct BI-RADS category to each examined mammogram is a strenuous and
challenging task for even experts. This paper proposes a new and effective
computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system to classify mammographic masses into four
assessment categories in BI-RADS. The mass regions are first enhanced by means
of histogram equalization and then semiautomatically segmented based on the
region growing technique. A total of 130 handcrafted BI-RADS features are then
extrcated from the shape, margin, and density of each mass, together with the
mass size and the patient's age, as mentioned in BI-RADS mammography. Then, a
modified feature selection method based on the genetic algorithm (GA) is
proposed to select the most clinically significant BI-RADS features. Finally, a
back-propagation neural network (BPN) is employed for classification, and its
accuracy is used as the fitness in GA. A set of 500 mammogram images from the
digital database of screening mammography (DDSM) is used for evaluation. Our
system achieves classification accuracy, positive predictive value, negative
predictive value, and Matthews correlation coefficient of 84.5%, 84.4%, 94.8%,
and 79.3%, respectively. To our best knowledge, this is the best current result
for BI-RADS classification of breast masses in mammography, which makes the
proposed system promising to support radiologists for deciding proper patient
management based on the automatically assigned BI-RADS categories
Model Agnostic Saliency for Weakly Supervised Lesion Detection from Breast DCE-MRI
There is a heated debate on how to interpret the decisions provided by deep
learning models (DLM), where the main approaches rely on the visualization of
salient regions to interpret the DLM classification process. However, these
approaches generally fail to satisfy three conditions for the problem of lesion
detection from medical images: 1) for images with lesions, all salient regions
should represent lesions, 2) for images containing no lesions, no salient
region should be produced,and 3) lesions are generally small with relatively
smooth borders. We propose a new model-agnostic paradigm to interpret DLM
classification decisions supported by a novel definition of saliency that
incorporates the conditions above. Our model-agnostic 1-class saliency detector
(MASD) is tested on weakly supervised breast lesion detection from DCE-MRI,
achieving state-of-the-art detection accuracy when compared to current
visualization methods
thermogram Breast Cancer Detection : a comparative study of two machine learning techniques
Breast cancer is considered one of the major threats for women’s health all over the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that 1 in every 12 women could be subject to a breast abnormality during her lifetime. To increase survival rates, it is found that it is very effective to early detect breast cancer. Mammography-based breast cancer screening is the leading technology to achieve this aim. However, it still can not deal with patients with dense breast nor with tumor size less than 2 mm. Thermography-based breast cancer approach can address these problems. In this paper, a thermogram-based breast cancer detection approach is proposed. This approach consists of four phases: (1) Image Pre-processing using homomorphic filtering, top-hat transform and adaptive histogram equalization, (2) ROI Segmentation using binary masking and K-mean clustering, (3) feature extraction using signature boundary, and (4) classification in which two classifiers, Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) and Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), were used and compared. The proposed approach is evaluated using the public dataset, DMR-IR. Various experiment scenarios (e.g., integration between geometrical feature extraction, and textural features extraction) were designed and evaluated using different measurements (i.e., accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity). The results showed that ELM-based results were better than MLP-based ones with more than 19%
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