Improving breast cancer classification with mammography, supported on an appropriate variable selection analysis

Noel Pérez; Miguel A. Guevara; Augusto Silva

doi:10.1117/12.2007912

26 February 2013 Improving breast cancer classification with mammography, supported on an appropriate variable selection analysis

Noel Pérez, Miguel A. Guevara, Augusto Silva

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Proceedings Volume 8670, Medical Imaging 2013: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 867022 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2007912
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2013, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando Area), Florida, United States

Abstract

This work addresses the issue of variable selection within the context of breast cancer classification with mammography. A comprehensive repository of feature vectors was used including a hybrid subset gathering image-based and clinical features. It aimed to gather experimental evidence of variable selection in terms of cardinality, type and find a classification scheme that provides the best performance over the Area Under Receiver Operating Characteristics Curve (AUC) scores using the ranked features subset. We evaluated and classified a total of 300 subsets of features formed by the application of Chi-Square Discretization, Information-Gain, One-Rule and RELIEF methods in association with Feed-Forward Backpropagation Neural Network (FFBP), Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Decision Tree J48 (DTJ48) Machine Learning Algorithms (MLA) for a comparative performance evaluation based on AUC scores. A variable selection analysis was performed for Single-View Ranking and Multi-View Ranking groups of features. Features subsets representing Microcalcifications (MCs), Masses and both MCs and Masses lesions achieved AUC scores of 0.91, 0.954 and 0.934 respectively. Experimental evidence demonstrated that classification performance was improved by combining image-based and clinical features. The most important clinical and image-based features were StromaDistortion and Circularity respectively. Other less important but worth to use due to its consistency were Contrast, Perimeter, Microcalcification, Correlation and Elongation.

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Noel Pérez, Miguel A. Guevara, and Augusto Silva "Improving breast cancer classification with mammography, supported on an appropriate variable selection analysis", Proc. SPIE 8670, Medical Imaging 2013: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 867022 (26 February 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2007912

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