A computer-aided system for classification of breast tumors in ultrasound images via biclustering learning

Qiangzhi Zhang, Huali Chang, Longzhong Liu, Anhua Li, Qinghua Huang

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Abstract

The occurance of Breast cancer increases significantly in the modern world. Therefore, the importance of computer-aided recognition of breast tumors also increases in clinical diagnosis. This paper proposes a novel computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) method for the classification of breast lesions as benign or malignant tumors using the biclustering learning technique. The medical data is graded based on the sonographic breast imaging reporting with data system (BI-RADS) lexicon. In the biclustering learning, the training data is used to find significant grading patterns. The grading pattern being learned is then applied to the test data. The k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN) classifier is used as the classifier of breast tumors. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method classifies breast tumors into benign and malignant effectively. This indicates that it could yield good performances in real applications.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMachine Learning and Cybernetics - 13th International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsXizhao Wang, Qiang He, Patrick P.K. Chan, Witold Pedrycz
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages24-32
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9783662456514
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event13th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2014 - Lanzhou, China
Duration: 13 Jul 201416 Jul 2014

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume481
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityLanzhou
Period13/07/1416/07/14

Keywords

  • BI-RADS
  • Biclustering
  • Breast cancer
  • Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD)
  • K-NN

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