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Comparison of Methods for Classification of Breast Ductal Branching Patterns

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Digital Mammography (IWDM 2006)

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Topological properties of the breast ductal network have shown the potential for classifying clinical breast images with and without radiological findings. In this paper, we review three methods for the description and classification of breast ductal topology. The methods are based on ramification matrices and symbolic representation via string encoding signatures. The performance of these methods has been compared using clinical x-ray and MR images of breast ductal networks. We observed the accuracy of the classification between the ductal trees segmented from the x-ray galactograms with radiological findings and normal cases in the range of 0.86-0.91%. The accuracy of the classification of the ductal trees segmented from the MR autogalactograms was observed in the range of 0.5-0.89%.

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Bakic, P.R., Kontos, D., Megalooikonomou, V., Rosen, M.A., Maidment, A.D.A. (2006). Comparison of Methods for Classification of Breast Ductal Branching Patterns. 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_85

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