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- This invention relates generally to an automated method and system for detecting
- digital medical images such as mammograms and chest radiographs.
- the present invention generally relates to CAD techniques for automated detection of
- the present invention includes use of various technologies referenced and described
- radiographs so called mammograms, are among the most important and difficult task's
- nodule of interest or to the subjective and varying decision criteria used by radiologists.
- Underreading of a radiograph may be due to a lack of clinical data, lack of experience, a
- breast cancers Between 30 and 50% of breast carcinomas detected radiographically
- mammography may
- radiographic imaging systems are developed, computer-aided searches become feasible.
- One of the early steps in a computer-aided system is to segment a digitized
- radiographic image such as a mammogram
- foreground for example, corresponding to
- the breast and background for example, corresponding to the external surroundings of the
- area segmented as corresponding to the breast may be accomplished by analyzing the size and
- threshold value which threshold value is incremented no more than three times "Blobs"
- immediate surround are classified as "potentially malignant" based on their size and shape
- the prior computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) scheme has a sensitivity (i.e., to include as
- ANNs see, e.g., Asada et al., "Potential usefulness of an artificial neural network for
- CAD Computer-aided diagnosis
- ROIs suspicious areas
- the other is quantification of the an area of an image, for example classifying
- a lesion as benign or malignant.
- the task is not to find suspicious areas, but rather to
- anatomic regions particularly individual and clustered microcalcifications, lesions,
- an object of this invention is to provide an automated method
- abnormal anatomic regions e.g., individual
- Another object of this invention is to provide an automated method and system for
- Another object of this invention is to provide an automated method and system for
- a further object of this invention is to provide an automated method and system for
- ANNs Networks with actual clinical cases as well as hypothetical cases.
- a still further object of this invention is to provide an automated method and system
- Yet another object of this invention is to provide an automated method and system for
- a still further object of this invention is to provide an automated method and system
- Yet another object of this invention is to provide an automated method and system for
- digitized medical images such as mammograms and chest radiographs
- regions are generated around one or more of the located candidate abnormalities
- the extracted features are applied to a classification
- ANN artificial neural network
- a first indicator e.g., blue
- a user modifies the located
- FIG. 1 is a flow chart of the method for detecting, classifying and displaying
- FIG. 2 is a system diagram of the system for detecting, classifying and displaying
- FIG. 3 is a detailed diagram of the computer of Fig. 2;
- FIGs. 4(a) and 4(b) are images of a malignant and a benign cluster of
- FIG. 5 is a flow chart of the segmentation technique for individual
- FIG. 6A is an image of simulated (0.2 mm x 0.2 mm x 0.2 mm) microcalcification, in
- ROIs actual mammographic regions of interest
- FIG. 6B is a diagram illustrating how a microcalcification's contrast is formed
- ⁇ and p are the linear attenuation coefficient and density for glandular tissue, ⁇ x and
- p x are the linear attenuation coefficient and density for a microcalcification
- L x is the microcalcification's thickness
- p and p' are two locations in the image corresponding to
- FIG. 7 is a graph showing a comparison of measured area with true area for 0.2 mm
- FIG. 8 is a graph showing effect of scatter on measured area of microcalcifications
- FIG. 9 is a graph showing a comparison of calculated effective thickness with true
- FIG. 10 is a graph showing effect of scatter on calculated effective thickness of
- FIGs. 11(a) and 11(b) are illustration of four and eight shape indices, respectively, for
- FIG. 12(a) is a graph showing a distribution of cluster circularity versus cluster area
- FIG. 12(b) is a graph showing a distribution of number of microcalcifications within a
- cluster versus mean effective microcalcifications volume within a cluster, of malignant
- FIG. 12(c) is a graph showing a distribution of relative standard deviation of effective
- FIG. 12(d) is a graph showing a distribution of mean microcalcification area within a
- FIG. 13 is a schematic diagram of an artificial neural network (ANN) used in
- FIG. 14 is a graph showing classification performance of the ANN of Fig. 13 as a
- FIG. 15 is a graph showing classification performance of the ANN of Fig. 13 as a
- FIG. 16 is a graph showing round-robin-test classification performance of the ANN of
- Fig. 13 as a function of random seeds used during training
- FIGs. 17(a) and 17 (b) are receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves showing
- FIG. 18 is a graph showing a comparison of biopsy recommendation with and without
- FIG. 19 is a schematic diagram of an artificial neural network (ANN) used in
- FIG. 20 is an ROC curve showing performance of the ANN of Fig. 19 in differential
- FIG. 21 is a graph showing performance the ANN of Fig. 19 in differential diagnosis
- FIG. 22 is a score sheet for observer tests for monitoring performance in differential
- FIG. 23 is an illustration of the output of the ANN of Fig. 19 used for observer tests
- FIG. 24 is an ROC curve showing performance of differential diagnosis of interstitial
- FIG. 25 is a graph used to illustrate the definition of likelihood of malignancy in the
- FIG. 26 is an illustration of a display of a composite computer-estimated likelihood of
- FIGs. 27(a) and 27(b) are illustrations of displays of a composite computer-estimated
- FIG. 28 is an illustration of a display of a detected ROI containing abnormal
- FIG. 29 is an illustration of a display of a detected ROI containing abnormal
- FIG. 30 is an illustration of a display of a plurality of detected ROIs containing
- FIG. 31- is an illustration of a display of a cluster microcalcification of one of the
- FIG. 32 is an illustration of a display of an individual microcalcification of one of the
- FIG. 33 is an illustration of a display of a plurality of detected ROIs containing
- abnormal anatomical regions according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
- a digital radiographic image (or images) is acquired
- ROIs regions of interest
- step 30 features/parameters are
- ANN artificial neural network
- step 40 the ANN generates a prediction result, such as a probability
- step 70 using, for example, different display schemes depending on detection or classification
- step 80 the results from step
- 70 can be modified by the radiologist so as to modify the processes of steps 20, 30 and 40, as
- FIG. 2 a system for implementing the processes of Fig. 1 is shown including an
- image acquisition device 100 such as a computed radiography system, a laser scanner, etc.
- a computer 110 such as a general purpose computer.
- the computer 110 is shown in Fig.
- a display device 200 such as a touch screen monitor with a
- a touch-screen interface a keyboard 210, a pointing device 220, a digitizing pad 230, a hard
- the motherboard 280 includes a processor 290, a RAM 300, and a ROM
- I/O ports 320 which are used to couple to the image acquisition device 110, and optional
- step 20 extraction/segmentation (step 20), the feature extraction (step 30), the ANN (step 50), the
- step 40 inputting of other parameters (step 40), the generation of the prediction result (step 60), the
- a digitized radiographic image such as a mammogram
- step 20 Fig. 1 the next step of ROI extraction/segmentation is performed as will now be
- Fig. 4 shows an example of a malignant and a benign mammographic
- Table 1 lists the set of eight features used in this invention for the
- Table 1 describe the characteristics of a cluster (features one, two, and
- microcalcifications can be extremely small in size and low in contrast, they can be highly
- the segmentation technique is based on simple thresholding of radiographic contrast.
- microcalcification (steps 500 and 510). After subtracting the smooth background, a
- microcalcification was delineated using two passes of a region-growing technique, namely, a
- step 520 a "precise" region-growing with a locally modified threshold (step 540).
- step 520 The purpose of the second, "precise,” threshold (step 540) was to correct for such
- This "precise” threshold (step 540) was calculated by subtracting a residual
- Fig. 6A shows an
- ROIs regions of interest
- the screen film imaging chain including scatter and blurring, as will now be discussed.
- Fig. 6B shows a simplified model of imaging a microcalcification embedded in breast
- the radiation contrast of the microcalcification, R c can be defined as the
- the amount of scattered radiation is the same at points p and p', which is plausible because microcalcifications are extremely small compared to a typical breast, then the radiation
- G and C are the grid transmission factors for primary and scatter radiation
- F is the scatter fraction at the front surface of the grid
- ⁇ is the difference in
- a microcalcification's contrast decreases as the image propagates along the imaging
- contrast in terms of exposure transforms to contrast in terms
- optical density (radiographic contrast) when the image is recorded by the screen-film
- contrast-correction factors It can be shown that contrast measured for a blurred signal is a
- the maximum contrast is measured when the aperture and the object are
- R c ' and ⁇ D' are the blur-reduced contrast in terms of exposure and in terms of optical
- contrast correction factors K sf and K ⁇ derived, as will be later described, depend only on the shape of the microcalcification and on the point spread function (PSF) of the screen-film
- This convolution was performed at a spatial resolution of 0.0195-mm pixel size.
- Fig. 7 compares the true area with the measured area (the number of pixels delineated
- microcalcifications were added one at a
- Fig. 7 plots the average of the 225 measured areas in each ROI for simulated
- Fig. 8 shows the average of absolute errors in measured area as a function of breast
- Contrast of a microcalcification reflects its size (thickness) in the dimension parallel
- microcalcification embedded in fat can have a higher contrast than a large microcalcification
- thickness can make contrast a more meaningful measure of size.
- a microcalcification's effective thickness is defined as the microcalcification's length
- contrast can be determined from a difference in optical density (radiographic contrast) with
- PSFS point spread functions
- OBJ (x,y) (4) 0,outside object
- OBJ x (x, y) (4) 0,outside object
- APE(x, y) represent the transmission function of the sampling aperture for both
- APE(x,y) (6) 0,outside aperture.
- the contrast of the signal depends on the position of the aperture relative to the
- the operator ® symbolizes convolution.
- Contrast reaches a maximum when the aperture has the best alignment with the object, in
- the blurring can be any blurring caused by the screen-film system.
- the blurring can be any blurring caused by the screen-film system.
- the blurred exposure can be written as:
- the spatially dependent radiation contrast can be written as: X-E I* ) ⁇ APE(x,y) s ⁇ j ⁇ ,y) x (12)
- APE(x, y) is replaced by OBJ x (x, y):
- the blurred contrast reaches a maximum when the sampling aperture align
- a contrast reduction factor can be defined as:
- OBJ D (x, y) F ⁇ OBJ x (x, y) ⁇ (16)
- radiographic contrast S ]/ x,y can be written as:
- the blurring caused by the sampling aperture of the digitizer can be modeled similarly to the
- PSF dz (x, y) is the point spread function of the sampling aperture of the digitizer.
- a contrast reduction factor for the two highest radiographic contrast can be defined
- Fig. 9 compares the true thickness with the calculated effective thickness, for
- microcalcifications with thickness of 0.1 -mm or smaller are microcalcifications with thickness of 0.1 -mm or smaller.
- parameters used in the calculation include scatter, H&D curve, and x-ray
- FIG. 10 shows that the average absolute error in effective thickness due to
- the next step in the method of the present invention is the automated
- the cluster contain important information for predicting a lesion's histologic state.
- Microcalcifications can be identified by a computer
- microcalcification are defined as follows:
- microcalcification are believed to be less useful in predicting likelihood of malignancy than
- the shape-irregularity measure defined as the standard deviation of twelve shape indices, illustrated in Figs. 11(a) and 11(b), is designed to measure shape
- indices is defined as the shape-irregularity measure of a microcalcification. This measure is
- the shape-irregularity measure was computed for all microcalcifications within a
- the shape-irregularity measure depends on accurate segmentation of individual
- microcalcification but rather to identify linear or branching microcalcifications. Since to
- mm-pixel digitization may be adequate for calculating the shape-irregularity measure.
- the method of the present invention can achieve a high
- invention uses a computer-estimated margin of a cluster to calculate the circularity and area
- Circularity was defined as P 2 /4 ⁇ A, where P is the length of the
- A is the area of the microcalcification cluster.
- a cluster's margin was estimated using a morphological dilation operator and a
- a morphological dilation operator enlarges an object, by assigning a pixel in the
- This kernel was constructed
- microcalcifications the background was set to 0 and microcalcifications were represented by
- the erosion operator was applied three times consecutively, to reduce the size of the object in
- a selected feature can be used to differentiate some malignant clusters from benign
- clusters overlap with benign clusters in each graph, some malignant clusters do not overlap
- Figs. 12(a)-12(d) provide a visual comparison of
- Figs. 12(a)- 12(d) also illustrate the qualitative correlation of the eight features with
- clusters tend to be smaller and rounder whereas malignant clusters tend to be larger and
- microcalcifications associated with adenosis form tight clusters, but malignant ductal
- microcalcifications tend to have larger variations in size; clinically, pleomorphism is used to
- microcalcifications tend to be more irregular in shape than benign calcifications; clinically,
- linear or branching shape is the most important indication of malignancy.
- the set of eight features provides the basis for classification
- This set of eight features is used in the method of the present invention by an artificial neural
- An artificial neural network is a mathematical model of the human neural
- An artificial neural network solves multi-variate problems by forming a multi-
- variable (weights) mathematical model on the basis of examples, and then applying this
- ANNs are known for their flexibility in handling complex problems
- error-back-propagation network with three layers. [66] The input layer had eight input units,
- single hidden layer had six hidden units, as determined empirically for optimal network
- the output layer had a single output unit.
- the output of the ANN can
- the ANN was trained using training samples with known diagnostic truth, in
- supervised learning the ANN modifies its internal weights
- the error of the ANN measures how well the ANN models the training samples.
- FIG. 15 shows an example in which, as training iterations increase
- the ANN was tested using two methods: consistency and round-robin (or leave-
- test samples are identical to the training samples.
- Fig. 15 shows that the performance indices of the ANN, A z and 0.9 oA z ,
- a round-robin test measures the generality of the ANN beyond
- the training set consists of all but one case, and the test set is the one left-
- the training and test set are then used to train and test the ANN, after which the
- test cases are different from the training samples.
- per- view either as a single- view mammogram ("per- view"), or as the collection of mammograms of a
- per-patient Typically mammogram studies are taken from at least two viewing
- cranio-caudal CC
- ML medio-lateral
- MLO medio-lateral oblique
- a patient may have multiple lesions.
- the films e.g., CC, ML, and MLO views
- a patient may have multiple lesions.
- per-view definition is biased, because when, for example, a CC view is used as the test case
- test set is no longer completely independent
- the structure of the ANN i.e., the number of adjustable weights, can affect the
- the ANN had 54 adjustable weights. Approximately 100 and 200 cases, respectively, from
- ratio was approximately 2 and 4 for each respective database.
- the random number generator used in the ANN to determine the initial weights
- ANN represented by an index value, not by the actual seed values.
- Fig. 16 shows that the ANN's
- the ANN can be trained on
- the method of the present invention has two important components: (1) the
- extracted features provide a basis for analyzing mammographic microcalcifications.
- artificial neural network provides a statistical estimate of the likelihood of malignancy on the
- This invention compares radiologists' diagnostic performance with and without the
- database B was used in this observer study. This database was a quasi-
- the mammographic films used in this invention were standard MLO and CC views of
- magnification films The technical quality of the mammograms was evaluated subjectively.
- dataset 2 consisted of
- second session be influenced by observer memory in the first session.
- each observer read all 104 cases.
- the first session In the first session,
- group ⁇ read the cases in the opposite reading conditions, i.e., in the first session, they read
- dataset 1 without aid then dataset 2 with aid, and in the second session, they read dataset 1
- MS804A Radx Technology, Houston, TX was used to mount the mammograms. A regular and a mammography magnifying glass were provided. The observers read the cases in a
- the summary ROC curves of radiologists' were obtained by averaging the binormal parameters, a and b, of individual radiologist's ROC curves.
- This method uses jackknife and ANOVA to analyze the
- biopsy surgical biopsy + alternative tissue sampling
- mammogram-reading aid investigated by Getty et al. consisted of a check list of twelve
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