Efficient System for Delimitation of Benign and Malignant Breast Masses. 2022

Dante Mújica-Vargas, and Manuel Matuz-Cruz, and Christian García-Aquino, and Celia Ramos-Palencia
Departamento de Ciencias Computacionales, Tecnológico Nacional de México, Centro Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico, Cuernavaca 62490, Morelos, Mexico.

In this study, a high-performing scheme is introduced to delimit benign and malignant masses in breast ultrasound images. The proposal is built upon by the Nonlocal Means filter for image quality improvement, an Intuitionistic Fuzzy C-Means local clustering algorithm for superpixel generation with high adherence to the edges, and the DBSCAN algorithm for the global clustering of those superpixels in order to delimit masses' regions. The empirical study was performed using two datasets, both with benign and malignant breast tumors. The quantitative results with respect to the BUSI dataset were JSC≥0.907, DM≥0.913, HD≥7.025, and MCR≤6.431 for benign masses and JSC≥0.897, DM≥0.900, HD≥8.666, and MCR≤8.016 for malignant ones, while the MID dataset resulted in JSC≥0.890, DM≥0.905, HD≥8.370, and MCR≤7.241 along with JSC≥0.881, DM≥0.898, HD≥8.865, and MCR≤7.808 for benign and malignant masses, respectively. These numerical results revealed that our proposal outperformed all the evaluated comparative state-of-the-art methods in mass delimitation. This is confirmed by the visual results since the segmented regions had a better edge delimitation.

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