H. B. Kekre; Pravin Shrinath

Tumour Delineation using Statistical Properties of The Breast US Images and Vector Quantization based Clustering Algorithms

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H. B. Kekre ^1,* Pravin Shrinath ¹

1. Department of Computer Engineering MPSTME, SVKM’s NMIMS University, Mumbai, India

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2013.11.01

Received: 16 May 2013 / Revised: 20 Jun. 2013 / Accepted: 5 Aug. 2013 / Published: 8 Sep. 2013

Index Terms

Probability image, vector quantization, codebook generation, connected components

Abstract

Breast cancer is most common and leading cause of death among women. With improvement in the imaging modalities it is possible to diagnose the cancer at an early stage moreover treatment at an early stage reduces the mortality rate. B-mode ultrasound (US) imaging is very illustrious and reliable technique in early detection of masses in the breast. Though it is complimentary to the mammography, dense breast tissues can be examined more efficiently and detects the small nodules that are usually not observed in mammography. Segmentation of US images gives the clear understanding of nature and growth of the tumor. But some inherent artifact of US images makes this process difficult and computationally inefficient. Many methods are discussed in the literature for US image segmentation, each method has its pros and cons. In this paper, initially region merging based watershed and marker-controlled watershed transforms are discussed and implemented. In the subsequent sections we proposed a method for segmentation, based on clustering. Proposed method consists of three stages, in first stage probability images and its equalized histogram images are obtained from the original US images without any preprocessing. In the next stage, we used VQ based clustering technique with LBG, KPE and KEVR codebook generation algorithm followed by sequential cluster merging. Last stage is the post processing, where we removed unwanted regions from the selected cluster image by labeling the connected components and moreover used morphological operation for closing the holes in the final segmented image. Finally, results by our method are compared with initially discussed methods.

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H. B. Kekre, Pravin Shrinath "Tumour Delineation using Statistical Properties of The Breast US Images and Vector Quantization based Clustering Algorithms", IJIGSP, vol.5, no.11, pp.1-12, 2013. DOI: 10.5815/ijigsp.2013.11.01

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