title: Automated diagnosis of mammogram images of breast cancer using discrete wavelet transform and spherical wavelet transform features: a comparative study.
abstract: Mammograms are one of the most widely used techniques for preliminary screening of breast cancers. There is great demand for early detection and diagnosis of breast cancer using mammograms. Texture based feature extraction techniques are widely used for mammographic image analysis. In specific, wavelets are a popular choice for texture analysis of these images. Though discrete wavelets have been used extensively for this purpose, spherical wavelets have rarely been used for Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) of breast cancer using mammograms. In this work, a comparison of the performance between the features of Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Spherical Wavelet Transform (SWT) based on the classification results of normal, benign and malignant stage was studied. Classification was performed using Linear Discriminant Classifier (LDC), Quadratic Discriminant Classifier (QDC), Nearest Mean Classifier (NMC), Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Parzen Classifier (ParzenC). We have obtained a maximum classification accuracy of 81.73% for DWT and 88.80% for SWT features using SVM classifier.
authors.affiliation: Department of ECE, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Clementi Road, Singapore-599489. g.karthikeya@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Karthikeyan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ganesan
authors.forename: U Rajendra
authors.initials: UR
authors.lastname: Acharya
authors.forename: Chua Kuang
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Chua
authors.forename: Lim Choo
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Min
authors.forename: Thomas K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Abraham
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000465:Algorithms; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008327:Mammography; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D058067:Wavelet Analysis