An evaluation of wavelet features subsets for mammogram classification

  • Authors:
  • Cristiane Bastos Rocha Ferreira;Díbio Leandro Borges

  • Affiliations:
  • Instituto de Informática, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Go, Brazil;BIOSOLO, Goiânia, Go, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • CIARP'05 Proceedings of the 10th Iberoamerican Congress conference on Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper is about an evaluation for a feature selection strategy for mammogram classification. An earlier solution to this problem is revisited, which constructed a supervised classifier for two problems in mammogram classification: tumor nature, and tumor geometric type. The approach works by transforming the data of the images in a wavelet basis and by using a minimum subset of representative features of these textures based in a specific threshold (λT). In this paper different wavelet bases, variation of the selection strategy for the coefficients, and different metrics are all evaluated with known labelled images. This is a suitable solution worth further exploration. For the experiments we have used samples of images labeled by physicians. Results shown are promising, and we describe possible lines for future directions.