An Evaluation of Wavelet Features Subsets for Mammogram Classification

  • Cristiane Bastos Rocha Ferreira
  • Díbio Leandro Borges
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 3773)

Abstract

This paper is about an evaluation for a feature selection strategy for mammogram classification. An earlier solution to this problem is revisited, which constructed a supervised classifier for two problems in mammogram classification: tumor nature, and tumor geometric type. The approach works by transforming the data of the images in a wavelet basis and by using a minimum subset of representative features of these textures based in a specific threshold (λ T ). In this paper different wavelet bases, variation of the selection strategy for the coefficients, and different metrics are all evaluated with known labelled images. This is a suitable solution worth further exploration. For the experiments we have used samples of images labeled by physicians. Results shown are promising, and we describe possible lines for future directions.

Keywords

Mahalanobis Distance Wavelet Basis Gabor Wavelet Representative Feature Tumor Nature 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Cristiane Bastos Rocha Ferreira
    • 1
  • Díbio Leandro Borges
    • 2
  1. 1.Instituto de InformáticaUniversidade Federal de GoiásGoiâniaBrazil
  2. 2.BIOSOLOGoiâniaBrazil

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