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Computer-Assisted Diagnosis System for Breast Cancer in Computed Tomography Laser Mammography (CTLM)

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Computed tomography laser mammography (Eid et al. Egyp J Radiol Nucl Med, 37(1): p. 633–643, 1) is a non-invasive imaging modality for breast cancer diagnosis, which is time-consuming and challenging for the radiologist to interpret the images. Some issues have increased the missed diagnosis of radiologists in visual manner assessment in CTLM images, such as technical reasons which are related to imaging quality and human error due to the structural complexity in appearance. The purpose of this study is to develop a computer-aided diagnosis framework to enhance the performance of radiologist in the interpretation of CTLM images. The proposed CAD system contains three main stages including segmentation of volume of interest (VOI), feature extraction and classification. A 3D Fuzzy segmentation technique has been implemented to extract the VOI. The shape and texture of angiogenesis in CTLM images are significant characteristics to differentiate malignancy or benign lesions. The 3D compactness features and 3D Grey Level Co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) have been extracted from VOIs. Multilayer perceptron neural network (MLPNN) pattern recognition has developed for classification of the normal and abnormal lesion in CTLM images. The performance of the proposed CAD system has been measured with different metrics including accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity and area under receiver operative characteristics (AROC), which are 95.2, 92.4, 98.1, and 0.98%, respectively.

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Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge who helped us to do our study. Without their continued efforts and support, we would not have been able to gather the dataset and the successful complementation of our work. We also thank Laszlo Meszaros for sharing the dataset, Dr. Ahmad Kamal Bin Md Alif for helping us to review and report CTLM images, and Nur Iylia Roslan for assisting us in the data collection.

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  1. Faculty of Computer and Communication Systems, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Seri Kembangan, Malaysia

    Afsaneh Jalalian, Syamsiah Mashohor, M. Iqbal Saripan & Abdul Rahman Ramli

  2. Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Seri Kembangan, Malaysia

    Rozi Mahmud

  3. Faculty of Computer and Information Technology Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran

    Babak Karasfi

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Jalalian, A., Mashohor, S., Mahmud, R. et al. Computer-Assisted Diagnosis System for Breast Cancer in Computed Tomography Laser Mammography (CTLM). J Digit Imaging 30, 796–811 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10278-017-9958-5

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