Breast mass detection in tomosynthesis projection images using information-theoretic similarity measures

Swatee Singh; Georgia D. Tourassi; Joseph Y. Lo

doi:10.1117/12.713004

30 March 2007 Breast mass detection in tomosynthesis projection images using information-theoretic similarity measures

Swatee Singh, Georgia D. Tourassi, Joseph Y. Lo

Proceedings Volume 6514, Medical Imaging 2007: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 651415 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.713004
Event: Medical Imaging, 2007, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The purpose of this project is to study Computer Aided Detection (CADe) of breast masses for digital tomosynthesis. It is believed that tomosynthesis will show improvement over conventional mammography in detection and characterization of breast masses by removing overlapping dense fibroglandular tissue. This study used the 60 human subject cases collected as part of on-going clinical trials at Duke University. Raw projections images were used to identify suspicious regions in the algorithm's high-sensitivity, low-specificity stage using a Difference of Gaussian (DoG) filter. The filtered images were thresholded to yield initial CADe hits that were then shifted and added to yield a 3D distribution of suspicious regions. These were further summed in the depth direction to yield a flattened probability map of suspicious hits for ease of scoring. To reduce false positives, we developed an algorithm based on information theory where similarity metrics were calculated using knowledge databases consisting of tomosynthesis regions of interest (ROIs) obtained from projection images. We evaluated 5 similarity metrics to test the false positive reduction performance of our algorithm, specifically joint entropy, mutual information, Jensen difference divergence, symmetric Kullback-Liebler divergence, and conditional entropy. The best performance was achieved using the joint entropy similarity metric, resulting in ROC A_z of 0.87 ± 0.01. As a whole, the CADe system can detect breast masses in this data set with 79% sensitivity and 6.8 false positives per scan. In comparison, the original radiologists performed with only 65% sensitivity when using mammography alone, and 91% sensitivity when using tomosynthesis alone.

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Swatee Singh, Georgia D. Tourassi, and Joseph Y. Lo "Breast mass detection in tomosynthesis projection images using information-theoretic similarity measures", Proc. SPIE 6514, Medical Imaging 2007: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 651415 (30 March 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.713004

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