Malignancy and Abnormality Detection of Mammograms using Classifier Ensembling

• Main Authors: Nawazish Naveed, Muhammad Arfan Jaffar, Faisal Karim Shaikh
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Mehran University of Engineering and Technology 2011-07-01
• Series: Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology
• Subjects: Breast Cancer; Mammogram; Support Vector Machine; Discrete Wavelet Transforms; Ensemble Classifier.
• Online Access: http://publications.muet.edu.pk/research_papers/pdf/pdf135.pdf

The breast cancer detection and diagnosis is a critical and complex procedure that demands high degree of accuracy. In computer aided diagnostic systems, the breast cancer detection is a two stage procedure. First, to classify the malignant and benign mammograms, while in second stage, the type of abnormality is detected. In this paper, we have developed a novel architecture to enhance the classification of malignant and benign mammograms using multi-classification of malignant mammograms into six abnormality classes. DWT (Discrete Wavelet Transformation) features are extracted from preprocessed images and passed through different classifiers. To improve accuracy, results generated by various classifiers are ensembled. The genetic algorithm is used to find optimal weights rather than assigning weights to the results of classifiers on the basis of heuristics. The mammograms declared as malignant by ensemble classifiers are divided into six classes. The ensemble classifiers are further used for multiclassification using one-against-all technique for classification. The output of all ensemble classifiers is combined by product, median and mean rule. It has been observed that the accuracy of classification of abnormalities is more than 97% in case of mean rule. The Mammographic Image Analysis Society dataset is used for experimentation.