title: Independent component analysis and neural networks applied for classification of malignant, benign and normal tissue in digital mammography.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This paper proposes an efficient method for the discrimination and classification of mammograms with benign, malignant and normal tissues.
  
  
  METHODS
  The proposed method consists of selection of tissues, feature extraction using independent component analysis, feature selection by the forward-selection technique and classification of the tissue by the multilayer perceptron.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The method is tested for a mammogram set of the MIAS database, resulting in a 97.83% success rate, with 98.0% specificity and 97.5% sensitivity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The proposed method showed a good classification rate. The method will be useful for early cancer diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Biological Information Processing, University Federal of Maranhão, São Luis, Brazil.
authors.forename: L F A
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Campos
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Barros
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001940:Breast / Q000502:physiology*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D019992:Databases as Topic; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008327:Mammography; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D010465:Perception; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted