Improving the contrast of breast cancer masses in ultrasound using an autoregressive model based filter

Authors:
Etienne Von Lavante;J. Alison Noble
Affiliations:
Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK;Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK
Venue:
MICCAI'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention - Volume Part I
Year:
2007

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Abstract

The assessment and diagnosis of breast cancer with ultrasound is a challenging problem due to the low contrast between cancer masses and benign tissue. Due to this low contrast it has proven to be difficult to achieve reliable segmentation results on breast cancer masses. An autoregressive model has been employed to filter out of the backscattered RF-signal from a tissue harmonic image which is not degraded by harmonic leakage. Measurements on the filtered image have shown a significant (up to 45 %) increase in contrast between cancer masses and benign tissue.