Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, Volume. 11, Issue 4, 1850014(2018)

An image segmentation framework for extracting tumors from breast magnetic resonance images

Le Sun1,*... Jinyuan He2, Xiaoxia Yin2, Yanchun Zhang2, Jeon-Hor Chen3,4, Tomas Kron5 and Min-Ying Su3 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, P. R. China
  • 2Center for Applied Informatics Victoria University, Australia
  • 3Center for Functional Onco-Imaging of the Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California Irvine, USA
  • 4Department of Radiology E-Da Hospital and I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • 5Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
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    Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been a prevalence technique for breast cancer diagnosis. Computer-aided detection and segmentation of lesions from MRIs plays a vital role for the MRIbased disease analysis. There are two main issues of the existing breast lesion segmentation techniques: requiring manual delineation of Regions of Interests (ROIs) as a step of initialization; and requiring a large amount of labeled images for model construction or parameter learning, while in real clinical or experimental settings, it is highly challenging to get su±cient labeled MRIs. To resolve these issues, this work proposes a semi-supervised method for breast tumor segmentation based on super voxel strategies. After image segmentation with advanced cluster techniques, we take a supervised learning step to classify the tumor and nontumor patches in order to automatically locate the tumor regions in an MRI. To obtain the optimal performance of tumor extraction, we take extensive experiments to learn parameters for tumor segmentation and classification, and design 225 classifiers corresponding to different parameter settings. We call the proposed method as Semi-supervised Tumor Segmentation (SSTS), and apply it to both mass and nonmass lesions. Experimental results show better performance of SSTS compared with five state-of-the-art methods.

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    Le Sun, Jinyuan He, Xiaoxia Yin, Yanchun Zhang, Jeon-Hor Chen, Tomas Kron, Min-Ying Su. An image segmentation framework for extracting tumors from breast magnetic resonance images[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2018, 11(4): 1850014

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    Paper Information

    Received: Dec. 5, 2017

    Accepted: Jan. 14, 2018

    Published Online: Oct. 6, 2018

    The Author Email: Sun Le (sunle2009@gmail.com)

    DOI:10.1142/s1793545818500141

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