Correlations among acoustic, texture and morphological features for breast ultrasound CAD
Journal
Ultrasonic Imaging
Journal Volume
30
Journal Issue
4
Pages
228-236
Date Issued
2008
Author(s)
Abstract
Acoustic, textural and morphological features of the breast in ultrasound imaging were extracted for computer-aided diagnosis. In addition, correlations among different categories of features were analyzed. Clinical data from 14 patients (7 malignant and 7 benign samples) were acquired. A custom-made experimental apparatus was used for simultaneous data acquisition of B-mode ultrasound and limited-angle tomography images. Textural features were extracted from B-mode images, including five parameters derived from the gray-level concurrence matrix and five parameters derived from a nonseparable wavelet transform. Morphological features were also extracted from B-mode images, including the depth-to-width ratio and normalized radial gradient. Acoustic features were estimated using limited-angle tomography, including the sound velocity and attenuation coefficient. Generally, the correlation coefficients for features within the textural feature group were relatively high (0.48-0.79), whereas those between different feature categories were relatively low (0.17-0.40). This suggests that combining different sets of features would improve the computer-aided diagnosis of breast cancer. Copyright 2008/2009 by Dynamedia, Inc. All rights of reproduction in any form reserved.
Subjects
Acoustic features; Attenuation; Breast ultrasound; Computer-aided diagnosis; Morphological features; Sound velocity; Texture features
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Other Subjects
Acoustic wave velocity; Data acquisition; Medical imaging; Textures; Tomography; Ultrasonic imaging; Wavelet transforms; Acoustic features; Attenuation; Breast ultrasound; Morphological features; Texture features; Computer aided diagnosis; acoustics; article; attenuation; breast cancer; cancer diagnosis; clinical article; computer assisted diagnosis; computer assisted tomography; correlation analysis; correlation coefficient; diagnostic accuracy; echomammography; female; human; information processing; mathematical computing; morphology; parameter; receiver operating characteristic; sound intensity
Type
journal article