Sihem A. Lazzouni

Work place: Biomedical Engineering laboratory, Tlemcen University, 13000, Algeria

E-mail: sa_lazzouni@yahoo.fr

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Research Interests: Engineering, Computational Engineering, Computational Science and Engineering

Biography

Sihem Amel LAZZOUNI is an Associate Professor at the biomedical engineering Department of Tlemcen University, Algeria. She received her PhD degree in Electronic Science from Tlemcen University in 2008. She also received a M.S. and an engineer degree in Electronic science in 1998 and 1994 respectively from the Electronic Institute of Tlemcen University, Algeria. She is currently member of Research Team 'Medical Imaging' at the biomedical engineering Laboratory. Her research interests include fractal geometry and chaotic systems.

Author Articles
New Algorithm for Fractal Dimension Estimation based on Texture Measurements: Application on Breast Tissue Characterization

By Kamila Khemis Sihem A. Lazzouni Mahammed Messadi Salim Loudjedi Bessaid Abdelhafid

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2016.04.02, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2016

Fractal analysis is currently in full swing in particular in the medical field because of the fractal nature of natural phenomena (vascular system, nervous system, bones, breast tissue ...). For this, many algorithms for estimating the fractal dimension have emerged. Most of them are based on the principle of box counting. In this work we propose a new method for calculating fractal attributes based on contrast homogeneity and energy that have been extracted from gray level co-occurrence matrix. As application we are investigated in the characterization and classification of mammographic images with SuportVectorMachine classifier. We considered in particular images with tumor masses and architectural disorder to compare with normal ones. We calculate, for comparison the fractal dimension obtained by a reference method (triangular prism) and perform a classification similar to the previous. Results obtained with new algorithm are better than reference method (classification rate is 0.91 vs 0.65). Hence new fractal attributes are relevant. 

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