Mammography is a non-invasive diagnostic technique largely used for early cancer detection in women's breasts. One of the main indicants of such disease is the presence of microcalcifications, appearing as small bright spots in the mammographic image. An automatic detection and recognition of malignant clusters of microcalcifications, although very useful for a mass screening of the female population at risk, is very difficult to accomplish because of the small size of the microcalcifications and of the poor quality of the mammographic images. In this paper we propose a novel approach, based on the adoption of a multiple expert system (MES). Such a system aggregates several experts, some of which are devoted to classifying the single microcalcifications while others are aimed at recognizing the malignancy of the cluster considered as a whole. The final classification decision of the system results from the combination of the outputs of the single experts. The approach has been successfully tested on a standard database of 40 mammographic images, publicly available.


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    Title :

    Automatic classification of clustered microcalcifications by a multiple expert system


    Contributors:
    De Vito, S. (author) / Tortorella, F. (author) / Vento, M. (author)


    Publication date :

    1999-01-01


    Size :

    208552 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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