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1 1-02 Performance Evaluation Of Curvilinear Structure Removal Methods In Mammogram Image Analysis PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF CURVILINEAR STRUCTURE REMOVAL METHODS IN MAMMOGRAM IMAGE ANALYSIS Setiawan Hadi Informatics Engineering FMIPA University of Padjadjaran Jalan Raya Bandung Sumedang KM 21 Jatinangor ABSTRACT Image preprocessing algorithms for improving the performance of breast cancer detection algorithm have been evaluated and their performance are reported in this paper. Those algorithms are implemented successfully in different sequence combination, those are (i) intensity adjustment before removal of curvilinear structure and (ii) intensity adjustment after removal of curvilinear structure. Intensity adjustment task applied thresholding technique and removal of curvilinear structure task applied convolution process. Experiment has been conducted using 20 images taken from the mini-mias database of mammograms. It can be concluded that the result will assist the appropriate selection of preprocessing method for accurate breast cancer information extraction from mammograms. Keywords: Curvilinear, mammogram, image, thresholding, breast, cancer 1 INTRODUCTION Breast cancer is the second deadly disease that involve women all over the world after cervical cancer [1]. It is reported there are more than 1,500,000 new cases of breast cancer globally including 226,870 new cases in USA [2]. This cancer usually affects adult women between the ages of 40 to 49 years. The cause of the disease is unknown, but one of them is suspected related to genetic factors. Early detection of tumors in the breast area can be performed by mammography breast screening through radiology and X-ray pictures that are known as mammograms [3]. This activity is safe due to low-dose radiation. The goal of mammography is to detect lumps in the breast, even for a very small to feel ourself. Mammogram images resulted from mammography activity not only present view of suspected cancer, but also displays other tissues such as vascular tissue and milk gland organs contained in the breast. Therefore, to be able to detect suspected cancerous area accurately, some efforts should be done to detect the presence of tissue other than cancer. The location of a cancer on mammograms has two characteristics. In most of the mammogram, the cancer tissue appears in a collection with certain mass so that it can be detected easily. In contrast, in many cases, the cancer tissue are blocked by other tissues with curvilinear structure. This can occur when the surrounding cancerous regions are also other tissues such as the breast tissue breast milk and blood vessels. At mammography activities, the curvilinear structure of tissues gives the same reaction with suspected cancer tissue with the almost identical image intensity to the diseased tissue. Due this condition, we need some efforts to remove the curvilinear structures in mammograms so that the area of the suspected cancer can be more easily detected. 2 PROBLEM DESCRIPTION 2.1 Mammography Activity Mammography is the process of using low power X-rays energy to examine the human breast. This activity can be considered as a diagnostic and a screening tool. The goal of mammography is the early detection of breast cancer, typically through detection of characteristic masses and/or microcalcifications. Like all X-rays, mammograms use doses of ionizing radiation to create images. Radiologists then analyze the images for any abnormal findings (see illustration on Figure 1). Other devices can be used in mammography activity such as ultrasound, ductography, positron emission mammography, and MRI. Ultrasound is typically used for further evaluation of masses found on mammography or palpable masses not seen on mammograms. Ductograms are still used in some institutions for evaluation of bloody nipple discharge when the mammogram is non-diagnostic. MRI can be useful for further evaluation of questionable findings as well as for screening pre-surgical evaluation in patients with known breast cancer to detect any additional lesions that might change the surgical approach, for instance from breastconserving lumpectomy to mastectomy. Digital mammography is a specialized form of mammography that uses digital receptors and computers instead of X-ray film to help examine breast tissue for breast cancer. The electrical signals can be read on computer screens, permitting more manipulation of images to theoretically allow radiologists to more clearly view the results. 2.2 Mammogram Image Mammography activities produce a mammogram image. It is used for detection of woman breast cancer who has felt the presence of symptoms such as lumps and pain, or who do 15

2 The Proceedings of The 7th ICTS, Bali, May 15th-16th, 2013 (ISSN: ) Figure 1. (left) and cancerous (right) mammography image [4] 3) the suspected area is not visible due to the growth of cancer cells cancer does not affect or alter the normal tissue around it Areas of suspected cancerous tissue that are hidden behind normal breast could occur if the surrounding areas are part of normal breast such as breast tissue and breast milk blood vessels. Because most of the healthy tissue is in the form of stripes with a curve like the curve with relative constant change of size of the thickness, then the term curvilinear structure of the normal breast tissue is defined. Figure 3 shows breast with curvilinear structure. not feel any symptoms at all. Mammograms not only show the suspected cancerous tissue, but also show other tissues such as blood vessels and tissue milk gland organ located on the breast. Figure 2 shows abnormal mammograms. Figure 3. Breast with curvilinear structure and cancer tissue [6] At the time of mammography activities, tissues forming curvilinear structure give the same reaction with tissue suspect cancer. Consequently, the image intensity is almost similar to diseased tissue and the process of differentiating objects based on intensity gray level becomes difficult to perform. 2.4 Computer-based Breast Detection Methods Figure 2. Breast calcification (top), Fibrocystic breast tissue (left below), Breast tumor (right below). [5]. 2.3 Curvilinear Structure on Mammogram There are two characteristics of the location of a cancer on mammograms. The first characteristic occurs in the condition in which areas of suspected cancer is clearly seen in mammogram. In this case, a suspicious cancer object is grouped somewhere with a certain mass that can be detected easily. Furthermore, these objects have more contrast intensity than other objects do. So the distinction can be seen easily by intensity differences of the gray level. The second characteristic of cancerous condition occurs where the tissue is difficult to find. There are three things that can cause the condition, those are: 1) suspected area is located in the location which is difficult to detect by mammography 2) suspected cancerous area is hidden behind normal breast 16 Computer-based breast cancer detection methods have been proposed and published in the literature. In [7], breast cancer is detected and classified using neural network. The classification of micro cancer object of breast tumor has been performed based on feed forward back propagation neural network. Twenty six hundred sets of cell nuclei characteristics obtained by applying image analysis techniques to microscopic slides of Hematoxylin and Eosin stained samples of breast biopsy have been used in that work. Other method that has been widely used is the watershed segmentation method [1], [8], [9], combined with other image processing methods. A mathematical set based technique called morphological operations is also used in detecting breast cancer [10]. This method is applied to a mammogram that produces a high contrast image, which can be further enhanced for segmentation steps which leads to an easy identification of cancerous portion. 3 PROPOSED METHOD Preprocessing step is a basic image processing task that is usually performed to prepare mammogram images before recognition process. It consists of various intensity adjustment and segmentation algorithms applied to the images.

3 1-02 Performance Evaluation Of Curvilinear Structure Removal Methods In Mammogram Image Analysis In this paper two preprocessing methods are evaluated to support a breast cancer detection algorithm. The first method is to apply intensity adjustment using thresholding technique before the process of curvilinear structure removal. The second method is to apply thresholding after the process of curvilinear structure removal. Before implementing the methods, mammogram images are converted to gray-level image and then inverted. The resulted image is similar with an X-ray image (see Figure 4). Figure 4. Xray-like mammogram image 3.1 Thresholding Before Curvilinear Structure Removal The algorithm of this method can be described as follows: 1) Mammogram label removal: in this task label of mammogram obtained from mammographic activity is removed manually. Basic image processing cropping task can be used for finishing this task. 2) Histogram-based gray-level value selection for thresholding: in this task selection of grey-level value for thresholding operation is performed by evaluating pixel distribution in histogram of mammogram image using formula h(rk ) = nk where rk is k th grey-level value, and nk is sum of pixel with rk value. Since the area of suspected cancerous tissue is brighter than the others which means it has greater gray-level value, then the value of gray level that meets characteristics of cancerous tissue should be selected from the right which has a small frequency histogram (y axis value). The selected value then is used in thresholding operation (thresholding value T ). 3) Thresholding operation: This operation is performed based on this code: 0 if f (x, y) T f (x, y) = M axintensity if f (x, y > T where T is thresholding value obtained from previous step. In this step, all pixel value f (x, y) which is smaller than threshold value will be replaced by 0, and all pixel value greater than threshold value will be replaced by M axintensity (maximum intensity) value, in this case is ) Removal of curvilinear structure: This task consists of two steps. First is detection of curvilinear structure and the second is the removal of curvilinear structure. The detection of curvilinear structure is performed using convolution technique as follows: R = w1 z1 + w2 z wmn zmn mn P = wi zi i=1 where w is mask coefficient, z is image gray-level value, correspondence with w. Sum of all coefficient in the mask w is m n. If necessary, average filtering operation can be applied to remove curvilinear lines around the object. The curvilinear structure removal is performed by applying smooth filtering operation. This operation will reduce image interference (noise) as well as to give the effect of blurring the image, removal of small details in the image and disguise line or curve of an object with other objects in the background. Mathematically, the operation of smoothing is calculation of average pixel within a neighborhood area. By replacing the value of each pixel with the average value of all pixels in a neighborhood region, the pixel differences between the focus pixel and its adjacent pixels can be minimized. The matrix filter mask to calculate the average pixel neighborhood can in any size 3 3, 5 5 or 7 7 pixels. Figure 5 illustrates this result. Figure 5. Result of curvilinear structure removal 5) Marking cancer region in mammogram image: This is final steps to clarify areas of cancerous tissue on the mammogram image by combining processed image with original images and by drawing white color pixels on areas that suspected as cancer tissues. 3.2 Thresholding After Curvilinear Structure Removal The algorithm of this method can be described as follows: 1) Mammogram label removal: in this task label of mammogram obtained from mammographic activity is removed manually. Basic image processing cropping task can be used for finishing this task. 2) Curvilinear structure detection: To perform curvilinear structure detection, filtering operation is applied in order to obtain a binary image which can be considered as candidate curvilinear objects from mammogram image. The operation is performed through a convolution with the first derivative Sobel kernel. Sobel suggests the use of kernel size region to the neighborhood at 0, 15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 115, 130, 145, 160, and 175. The selection of kernel size must me performed carefully so the size is not 17

4 The Proceedings of The 7th ICTS, Bali, May 15th-16th, 2013 (ISSN: ) greater that the size of mammogram image. The use of accurate kernel size will affect the discovery of the mammary gland and blood vessels. Figure 6 shows the result of convolution of selected mammogram image with Sobel kernel size of 5 5 and direction of 0, 45 and 90. The thresholding values are 124.7, and 129.0, respectively. resulting Figure 8. Figure 8. Final result of cancer detection 4 EXPERIMENTAL RESULT Figure 6. Combined image as result of Sobel filtering operation When compared to the original mammogram image (see Figure 3), it appears that each white pixel in original mammogram image has brighter color than the pixels in surrounding area of combined mammogram image. Those points form smooth curves that show the existence of mammary glands and blood vessels in the breast. Lines forming curvilinear structure will be further eliminated through removal stage of curvilinear structure. 3) Curvilinear structure removal: Elimination of curvilinear structures is done by replacing the gray-level value with the average value neighborhood points through convolution with a kernel smoothing process. After experimenting of applying smoothing filter on original mammogram image by using kernel size 3 3, 7 7, 11 11, 20 20, 30 30, and 50 50, it is known that the best kernel size of smoothing is When using kernel size, the mamary glands and blood vessels are intact. Figure 7 shows the result of implementing kernel on original mammogram image. Figure 7. Original image processed by kernel size 4) Thresolding Segmentation: To improve clarity of the areas of cancer, thesholding segmentation performed oby using image sharpening technique. This operation will highlight areas on mammograms with the value of gray level higher than the surrounding area. Thresholding value are selected between 210 and 238. The output image is then combined with original image 18 Experiment has been conducted using 20 mammogram images selected from Mammographic Image Analysis Society (MIAS) database [11]. It consists of 10 health mammograms and 10 mammograms with cancer. Each image was processed using both methods described before. Performance evaluation indicators that have been monitored are: The value of threshold on thresholding segmentation stage on both methods. The selected threshold values are between 210 to 238. Sobel kernel size on the implementation of the first derivative The threshold value on the implementation of the first derivative, and The size of the kernel image smoothing. The experimental result is displayed on the Table 1. As we saw in the table, 14 mammogram images have been successfully detected by both methods. 6 mammogram images were only successfully detected using method A, 2 mammogram images, mdb013.pgm and mdb021.pgm, were unsuccessfully detected using both methods. The oversegmentation condition and inaccurate selection of thresholding value have been suspected as the cause of these failure of detection. The oversegmentation problem occurred when the tissue that suspected as cancer region does not have curvilinear structure but it has a homogeneous areas with similar gray-level values with healthy surrounding tissues of the breast. This area can not be classified as a curvilinear structure, but as a region. Figure 9 shows the unsuccessfully detected of mammogram images. Other experimental result on images mdb007.pgm, mdb008.pgm and mdb011.pgm gave not only accurate result but also other curvilinear structure. However this condition may not affect the whole result. Figure 10 displayed this condition. 5 EVALUATION Based on our experiment, evaluation for future research can be described as follows: 1) Selected thresholding value is between 210 and 235. In fact, this interval can be dynamically changed due to the image characteristics. Other methods of thresholding such as Otsu thresholding could be used for improve the detection

5 1-02 Performance Evaluation Of Curvilinear Structure Removal Methods In Mammogram Image Analysis Table 1. Experimental Result MIAS Ref. No. mdb001.pgm mdb002.pgm mdb003.pgm mdb004.pgm mdb005.pgm mdb006.pgm mdb007.pgm mdb008.pgm mdb009.pgm mdb010.pgm mdb011.pgm mdb012.pgm mdb013.pgm mdb014.pgm mdb015.pgm mdb016.pgm mdb017.pgm mdb018.pgm mdb019.pgm mdb020.pgm Class of abnormality Detection result Method A Method B Oversegmented Oversegmented removal, is superior than Method B. It is concluded that the thresholding task is very essential to be performed before other image processing tasks ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work is supported by DP2M DIKTI through Competition Grant Research Appreciation is given to the UNPAD Research Center, the Faculty of MIPA, the Mathematics Departments, and the VISiLab for managing, supervising and facilitating the research. REFERENCE [1] R. Ramani, N. Suthanthira Vanitha and S. Valarmathy, A Comparative Study of Algorithms for Breast Detection in Mammogram, European Journal of Scientific Research, 91(1), 2012, [2] R. Siegel and A. Jemal, Facts & Figures 2012, American Society Atlanta Georgia, 2012 [3] L. Fassa, Imaging and cancer: A review, Molecular Oncology, 2, 2008, [4] S. G. Komen, Breast Overview, American Society, 2012 [5] E. Baca, et al., Mammogram Images, Descriptions and Details, Medical Review Board, 2012 [6] D. B. Kopans, Breast Imaging, Lippincott and Wilkons, [7] S. Singh, P. R. Gupta, Breast detection and Classification using Neural Network, International Journal Of Advanced Engineering Sciences And Technologies, 6(1), 2011, [8] K. Iida, A. Higashi, H. Tsukinokisawa, Y. Fukumizu, H. Yamauchi, and Y. Kurumi, Marking Breast Method For Mammograms Using A Watershed Algorithm, Ritsumeikan University, 2012 [9] H. S. Sheshadri and A. Kandaswamy, Detection Breast based on Morphological Watershed Algorithm, Department of ECE, PSG College of Technology [10] D. N. Ponra, M. E. Jenifer, P. Poongod and J. S. Manoharan, Morphological Operations for the Mammogram Image to Increase the Contrast for the Efficient Detection of Breast, European Journal of Scientific Research, 68(4), 2012, [11] J. Suckling et al., The mammographic images analysis society digital mammogram database, Experta Medica International Congress Series, 1069, 1994, Figure 9. Unsuccessfully detected of mammogram images Figure 10. ful detected of mammogram images and other structures 2) Experiment showed that small Sobel kernel size 3 3 or 5 5 is enough for detection thin curvilinear structure, however, the size should be expanded to detect thicker curvilinear structure. One should be considered that the larger the kernel size, the more resources are required. In addition, the result might be less accurate. 3) Based on the experiment, the direction of Sobel kernel that fit for this detection are 0, 45 and 90. These directions are relatively easy to performed due to its special nature of angle. 4) Method A, thresholding before curvilinear structure 19

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