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Development of Breast Ultrasound CAD System for Screening

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Digital Mammography (IWDM 2006)

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Mass screening of breast cancer utilizing mammography (MMG) has been widely carried out. However, MMG might not be able to depict small impalpable masses in dense breast tissue clearly. We have developed a computer-aided detection (CAD) scheme in whole breast ultrasound (US) system for mass screening which has been developed by ALOKA CO., LTD., Japan. Our CAD scheme and image processing techniques have the following three benefits.

  1. 1

    Indication of mass candidates by our CAD scheme.

  2. 2

    Visualization of breast US images in two views of B-planes (CC View and ML View) and C-plane.

  3. 3

    Comparison of left and right breast images as in MMG.

The performance of the CAD scheme in detecting malignant masses on an initial study has a true positive fraction of 0.91 (10/11) at a 0.69 (633/924) false positive per image. Although mass screening utilizing US was not appropriate because images acquired by conventional hand probe were poor in reproduction, the problem could be solved in our system.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Technology Education, Faculty of Education, Gifu University, Japan

    Daisuke Fukuoka

  2. Department of Intelligent Image Information, Division of Regeneration and Advanced Medical Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu University, Japan

    Yuji Ikedo, Takeshi Hara & Hiroshi Fujita

  3. Division of Medical Ultrasonics, Center of Optical Medicine, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Japan

    Etsuo Takada

  4. Department of Radiology, National Hospital Organization Nagoya Medical Center, Japan

    Tokiko Endo

  5. Department of Mammary Gland, Chunichi Hospital, Japan

    Takako Morita

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  1. Division of Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering, Stopford Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, M13 9PT, Manchester

    Susan M. Astley

  2. Wolfson Medical Vision Lab, University of Oxford, UK

    Michael Brady

  3. Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineeering, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, M13 9PT, Manchester, UK

    Chris Rose

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

    Reyer Zwiggelaar

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Fukuoka, D. et al. (2006). Development of Breast Ultrasound CAD System for Screening. In: Astley, S.M., Brady, M., Rose, C., Zwiggelaar, R. (eds) Digital Mammography. IWDM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4046. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11783237_53

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