Automated malignancy detection in breast histopathological images

Andrei Chekkoury, Parmeshwar Khurd, Jie Ni, Claus Bahlmann, Ali Kamen, Amar Patel, Leo Grady, Maneesh Singh, Martin Groher, Nassir Navab, Elizabeth Krupinski, Jeffrey Johnson, Anna Graham, Ronald Weinstein

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51 Scopus citations

Abstract

Detection of malignancy from histopathological images of breast cancer is a labor-intensive and error-prone process. To streamline this process, we present an efficient Computer Aided Diagnostic system that can differentiate between cancerous and non-cancerous H&E (hemotoxylin&eosin) biopsy samples. Our system uses novel textural, topological and morphometric features taking advantage of the special patterns of the nuclei cells in breast cancer histopathological images. We use a Support Vector Machine classifier on these features to diagnose malignancy. In conjunction with the maximum relevance-minimum redundancy feature selection technique, we obtain high sensitivity and specificity. We have also investigated the effect of image compression on classification performance.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationMedical Imaging 2012
Subtitle of host publicationComputer-Aided Diagnosis
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
EventMedical Imaging 2012: Computer-Aided Diagnosis - San Diego, CA, United States
Duration: Feb 7 2012Feb 9 2012

Publication series

NameProgress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
Volume8315
ISSN (Print)1605-7422

Other

OtherMedical Imaging 2012: Computer-Aided Diagnosis
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego, CA
Period2/7/122/9/12

Keywords

  • Breast cancer
  • Breast histopathology
  • CAD histology
  • Cancer in histopathology images
  • Detecting malignancy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
  • Biomaterials

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