A spatial shape constrained clustering method for mammographic mass segmentation

DOI10.1155/2015/891692MaRDI QIDQ308857zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jian-Yong Lou, Xu-Lei Yang, Ai-Ze Cao

Publication date 6 September 2016

Published in Computational \& Mathematical Methods in Medicine (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/891692

zbMATH Keywords

deterministic annealing incorporating circular shape functionmammogramsmammographic mass segmentationweighting parameters

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biomedical imaging and signal processing (92C55)

Review text

Summary: A novel clustering method is proposed for mammographic mass segmentation on extracted regions of interest (ROIs) by using deterministic annealing incorporating circular shape function (DACF). The objective function reported in this study uses both intensity and spatial shape information, and the dominant dissimilarity measure is controlled by two weighting parameters. As a result, pixels having similar intensity information but located in different regions can be differentiated. Experimental results shows that, by using DACF, the mass segmentation results in digitized mammograms are improved with optimal mass boundaries, less number of noisy patches, and computational efficiency. An average probability of segmentation error of 7.18\% for well-defined masses (or 8.06\% for ill-defined masses) was obtained by using DACF on MiniMIAS database, with 5.86\% (or 5.55\%) and 6.14\% (or 5.27\%) improvements as compared to the standard DA and fuzzy c-means methods.

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