ANALYSIS OF SVM PARAMETRIZATION IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF MAMMOGRAPHIC TEXTURE IMAGES
Álvaro Henrique de Araújo Rungue, Alexei Manso Corrêa Machado, Pedro Augusto Pinho Ferraz, Bernardo Augusto Godinho de Oliveira, Thiago Melo Machado-Coelho, Willian Antônio Dos Santos · Congresso Brasileiro de Automática · 2018
Studies indicate that breast density is related to the risk of developing cancer since dense breasttissue can hide lesions, causing cancer to be detected at later stages. In this paper we classi cation method using support vector machines (SVM) associated to data reduction techniques to classify mammographic texture. An analysis of the parameters that influence the efectiveness of texture classi cation is also provided. Experiments were conducted on a set of 4,000 mammographic exams from which regions of interest representing the most signi cantly part of the texture of the breast tissue were extracted. Compared to other quantitative results found in the literature, the proposed multi-class SVM method using the radial basis function kernel and tuned parameters proved to be superior while classifying mammographic texture, reaching up to 99% of precision for 10% of recall.