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Title: CADx of mammographic masses and clustered microcalcifications: A review

Abstract

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women in the western world. While mammography is regarded as the most effective tool for the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer, the interpretation of mammograms is a difficult and error-prone task. Hence, computer aids have been developed that assist the radiologist in the interpretation of mammograms. Computer-aided detection (CADe) systems address the problem that radiologists often miss signs of cancers that are retrospectively visible in mammograms. Furthermore, computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) systems have been proposed that assist the radiologist in the classification of mammographic lesions as benign or malignant. While a broad variety of approaches to both CADe and CADx systems have been published in the past two decades, an extensive survey of the state of the art is only available for CADe approaches. Therefore, a comprehensive review of the state of the art of CADx approaches is presented in this work. Besides providing a summary, the goals for this article are to identify relations, contradictions, and gaps in literature, and to suggest directions for future research. Because of the vast amount of publications on the topic, this survey is restricted to the two most important types of mammographic lesions:more » masses and clustered microcalcifications. Furthermore, it focuses on articles published in international journals.« less

Authors:
;  [1]
  1. Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS), Am Wolfsmantel 33, 91058 Erlangen (Germany)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22100527
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Medical Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 36; Journal Issue: 6; Other Information: (c) 2009 American Association of Physicists in Medicine; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0094-2405
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; BIOMEDICAL RADIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAMMARY GLANDS; NEOPLASMS; REVIEWS

Citation Formats

Elter, Matthias, Horsch, Alexander, and Institute for Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, TU Muenchen, Ismaninger Strasse 22, 81675 Muenchen. CADx of mammographic masses and clustered microcalcifications: A review. United States: N. p., 2009. Web. doi:10.1118/1.3121511.
Elter, Matthias, Horsch, Alexander, & Institute for Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, TU Muenchen, Ismaninger Strasse 22, 81675 Muenchen. CADx of mammographic masses and clustered microcalcifications: A review. United States. https://doi.org/10.1118/1.3121511
Elter, Matthias, Horsch, Alexander, and Institute for Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, TU Muenchen, Ismaninger Strasse 22, 81675 Muenchen. 2009. "CADx of mammographic masses and clustered microcalcifications: A review". United States. https://doi.org/10.1118/1.3121511.
@article{osti_22100527,
title = {CADx of mammographic masses and clustered microcalcifications: A review},
author = {Elter, Matthias and Horsch, Alexander and Institute for Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, TU Muenchen, Ismaninger Strasse 22, 81675 Muenchen},
abstractNote = {Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women in the western world. While mammography is regarded as the most effective tool for the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer, the interpretation of mammograms is a difficult and error-prone task. Hence, computer aids have been developed that assist the radiologist in the interpretation of mammograms. Computer-aided detection (CADe) systems address the problem that radiologists often miss signs of cancers that are retrospectively visible in mammograms. Furthermore, computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) systems have been proposed that assist the radiologist in the classification of mammographic lesions as benign or malignant. While a broad variety of approaches to both CADe and CADx systems have been published in the past two decades, an extensive survey of the state of the art is only available for CADe approaches. Therefore, a comprehensive review of the state of the art of CADx approaches is presented in this work. Besides providing a summary, the goals for this article are to identify relations, contradictions, and gaps in literature, and to suggest directions for future research. Because of the vast amount of publications on the topic, this survey is restricted to the two most important types of mammographic lesions: masses and clustered microcalcifications. Furthermore, it focuses on articles published in international journals.},
doi = {10.1118/1.3121511},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22100527}, journal = {Medical Physics},
issn = {0094-2405},
number = 6,
volume = 36,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2009},
month = {Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2009}
}