Prediction of near-term risk of developing breast cancer using computerized features from bilateral mammograms

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• 作者：Wenqing Sun^a ; Bin Zheng^b ; Fleming Lure^a ; Teresa Wu^c ; ^d ; Jianying Zhang^e ; Benjamin Y. Wang^f ; Edward C. Saltzstein^g ; Wei Qian^a ; ^d ; ^{wqian@utep.edu" class="auth_mail} ;
• 关键词：Breast cancer ; Mammogram ; Computerized breast cancer risk analysis ; Bilateral mammographic asymmetry feature ; Near-term breast cancer risk assessment
• 刊名：Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
• 出版年：July 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：38
• 期：5
• 页码：348-357
• 全文大小：1533 K

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Asymmetry of bilateral mammographic tissue density and patterns is a potentially strong indicator of having or developing breast abnormalities or early cancers. The purpose of this study is to design and test the global asymmetry features from bilateral mammograms to predict the near-term risk of women developing detectable high risk breast lesions or cancer in the next sequential screening mammography examination. The image dataset includes mammograms acquired from 90 women who underwent routine screening examinations, all interpreted as negative and not recalled by the radiologists during the original screening procedures. A computerized breast cancer risk analysis scheme using four image processing modules, including image preprocessing, suspicious region segmentation, image feature extraction, and classification was designed to detect and compute image feature asymmetry between the left and right breasts imaged on the mammograms. The highest computed area under curve (AUC) is 0.754 ± 0.024 when applying the new computerized aided diagnosis (CAD) scheme to our testing dataset. The positive predictive value and the negative predictive value were 0.58 and 0.80, respectively.