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ArticleEuropean radiology experimental2017

Breast DCE-MRI: lesion classification using dynamic and morphological features by means of a multiple classifier system.

Roberta Fusco, Massimiliano Di Marzo, Carlo Sansone, Mario Sansone, Antonella Petrillo

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Roberta FuscoDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, Radiant and Metabolic Therapy, "Istituto Nazionale Tumori Fondazione Giovanni Pascale-IRCCS", Via Mariano Semmola, 80131 Naples, Italy.
Massimiliano Di MarzoDepartment of Melanoma Surgical Oncology, "Istituto Nazionale Tumori Fondazione Giovanni Pascale-IRCCS", Via Mariano Semmola, 80131 Naples, Italy.
Carlo Sansone3Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, University "Federico II" of Naples, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples, Italy.
Mario Sansone3Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, University "Federico II" of Naples, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples, Italy.
Antonella PetrilloDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, Radiant and Metabolic Therapy, "Istituto Nazionale Tumori Fondazione Giovanni Pascale-IRCCS", Via Mariano Semmola, 80131 Naples, Italy.

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Abstract

backgroundIn breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) analysis for lesion detection and classification, radiologists agree that both morphological and dynamic features are important to differentiate benign from malignant lesions. We propose a multiple classifier system (MCS) to classify breast lesions on dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) combining morphological features and dynamic information.

methodsThe proposed MCS combines the results of two classifiers trained with dynamic and morphological features separately. Twenty-six malignant and 22 benign breast lesions, histologically proven, were analysed. The lesions were subdivided into two groups: training set (14 benign and 18 malignant) and testing set (8 benign and 8 malignant). Volumes of interest were extracted both manually and automatically. We initially considered a feature set including 54 morphological features and 98 dynamic features. These were reduced by means of a selection procedure to delete redundant parameters. The performance of each of the two classifiers and of the overall MCS was compared with pathological classification.

resultsWe obtained an accuracy of 91.7% on the testing set using automatic segmentation and combining the best classifier for morphological features (decision tree) and for dynamic information (Bayesian classifier). With implementation of the MCS, an increase in accuracy of 12.5% and of 31.3% was obtained compared with the accuracy of the Bayesian classifier tested with dynamic features and with that of the decision tree tested with morphological parameters, respectively.

conclusionsAn MCS can optimise the accuracy for breast lesion classification combining morphological features and dynamic information.

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Bayesian classifierBreast cancerDecision treeDynamic contrast-enhanced MRIDynamic featuresMorphological featuresMultiple classifier system

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