Early breast cancer detection with digital mammograms using Haar-like features and AdaBoost algorithm
Yufeng Zheng, Clifford Yang, Alex Merkulov, Malavika Bandari · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2016
The current computer-aided detection (CAD) methods are not sufficiently accurate in detecting masses, especially in dense breasts and/or small masses (typically at their early stages). A small mass may not be perceived when it is small and/or homogeneous with surrounding tissues. Possible reasons for the limited performance of existing CAD methods are lack of multiscale analysis and unification of variant masses. The speed of CAD analysis is important for field applications. We propose a new CAD model for mass detection, which extracts simple Haar-like features for fast detection, uses AdaBoost approach for feature selection and classifier training, applies cascading classifiers for reduction of false positives, and utilizes multiscale detection for variant sizes of masses. In addition to Haar features, local binary pattern (LBP) and histograms of oriented gradient (HOG) are extracted and applied to mass detection. The performance of a CAD system can be measured with true positive rate (TPR) and false positives per image (FPI). We are collecting our own digital mammograms for the proposed research. The proposed CAD model will be initially demonstrated with mass detection including architecture distortion.