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ArticleJournal of imaging2019

Classification of Microcalcification Clusters in Digital Mammograms Using a Stack Generalization Based Classifier.

Nashid Alam, Erika R E Denton, Reyer Zwiggelaar

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Article in Journal of imaging, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Nashid AlamDepartment of Computer Science, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth SY23 3DB, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6488-8473
Erika R E DentonNorfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich NR4 7UY, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8650-862X
Reyer ZwiggelaarDepartment of Computer Science, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth SY23 3DB, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4360-0896

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper presents a machine learning based approach for the discrimination of malignant and benign microcalcification (MC) clusters in digital mammograms. A series of morphological operations was carried out to facilitate the feature extraction from segmented microcalcification. A combination of morphological, texture, and distribution features from individual MC components and MC clusters were extracted and a correlation-based feature selection technique was used. The clinical relevance of the selected features is discussed. The proposed method was evaluated using three different databases: Optimam Mammography Image Database (OMI-DB), Digital Database for Screening Mammography (DDSM), and Mammographic Image Analysis Society (MIAS) database. The best classification accuracy ( 95.00 ± 0.57 %) was achieved for OPTIMAM using a stack generalization classifier with 10-fold cross validation obtaining an A z value equal to 0.97 ± 0.01 .

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classificationdigital mammogrammicrocalcificationmorphological featuresstack generalization

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PMID34460670
PMCPMC8320960

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