title: Influence of Texture and Colour in Breast TMA Classification.
abstract: Breast cancer diagnosis is still done by observation of biopsies under the microscope. The development of automated methods for breast TMA classification would reduce diagnostic time. This paper is a step towards the solution for this problem and shows a complete study of breast TMA classification based on colour models and texture descriptors. The TMA images were divided into four classes: i) benign stromal tissue with cellularity, ii) adipose tissue, iii) benign and benign anomalous structures, and iv) ductal and lobular carcinomas. A relevant set of features was obtained on eight different colour models from first and second order Haralick statistical descriptors obtained from the intensity image, Fourier, Wavelets, Multiresolution Gabor, M-LBP and textons descriptors. Furthermore, four types of classification experiments were performed using six different classifiers: (1) classification per colour model individually, (2) classification by combination of colour models, (3) classification by combination of colour models and descriptors, and (4) classification by combination of colour models and descriptors with a previous feature set reduction. The best result shows an average of 99.05% accuracy and 98.34% positive predictive value. These results have been obtained by means of a bagging tree classifier with combination of six colour models and the use of 1719 non-correlated (correlation threshold of 97%) textural features based on Statistical, M-LBP, Gabor and Spatial textons descriptors.
authors.affiliation: VISILAB, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain.
authors.forename: M Milagro
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Fernández-Carrobles
authors.affiliation: VISILAB, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain.
authors.forename: Gloria
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bueno
authors.affiliation: VISILAB, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain.
authors.forename: Oscar
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Déniz
authors.affiliation: VISILAB, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain.
authors.forename: Jesús
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Salido
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Hospital de Jerez de la Frontera, Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Spain.
authors.forename: Marcial
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: García-Rojo
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Hospital General Universitario de Ciudad Real, Ciudad Real, Spain.
authors.forename: Lucía
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: González-López
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000473:pathology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology*; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D046888:Tissue Array Analysis / Q000592:standards*