Extraction of fuzzy rules at different concept levels related to image features of mammography for diagnosis of breast cancer

Publication date: Available online 27 September 2018Source: Biocybernetics and Biomedical EngineeringAuthor(s): Mahsa Goudarzi, Keivan MaghooliAbstractMammography is an inexpensive and non-invasive method through which one can diagnose breast cancer in its early stages. As these images need interpretation by a radiologist, this may develop some problems due to fatigue, repetition, and need for a great deal of attention to details and other factors. Thus, a method capable of diagnosing breast cancer should be employed to help physicians in this regard.In this paper, The mini Mammographic Image Analysis Society (mini-MIAS) database of mammograms is used. The aim is to distinguish between normal and abnormal classes. In the preprocessing stage, noise removal, removal of labels of images, heightening the contrast, and ROI segmentation are performed, and then compactness, entropy, mean, and smoothness are extracted from the images. In addition to classification, we have come to a new approach in order to create a complete knowledge base, which then we use this knowledge base for classification. We have a comprehensive knowledge base which covers all the conceptual levels.The extracted features are referred to as fuzzy classifiers through the look-up table method. And, for evaluation of the results, the 10-fold method is used. Discretization operations are performed on training data across 2, 3, and 4 levels to develop concept hierarchy. Concept hierarchies reduce the data by repla...
Source: Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering - Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research