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Detecting the stages of hyperplasia formation in the breast ducts using ultrasound B-scan images
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Detecting the stages of hyperplasia formation in the breast ducts using ultrasound B-scan images

Ezgi Taslidere, Fernand S. Cohen, Georgia Georgiou and IEEE
2006 3RD IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BIOMEDICAL IMAGING: MACRO TO NANO, VOLS 1-3, v 3, pp 900-903
01 Jan 2006

Abstract

Imaging Science & Photographic Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging Science & Technology Technology
A stochastic decomposition algorithm of the RF Echo into its coherent and diffuse components is used towards estimating the structural parameters of the hyperplastic stages of the breast tissue leading to early breast cancer detection. The discrimination power of the various parameters is studied under a host of conditions such as varying resolution and SNR values using a point scatterer model simulator that mimics epithelium hyperplastic growth in the breast ducts. It is shown that three parameters, in particular, the number of coherent scatterers, the Rayleigh scattering degree and the energy of the diffuse scatterers, prove to show very high ability to discriminate between various stages of hyperplasia even in cases of low resolution and SNR values. Values of Az > 0.942 were obtained for resolution less than or equal to 0.4mm even in low SNR values, then it drops below the 0.9 range as the resolution exceeds the 0.4mm range.

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