a novel method based on learning automata for automatic lesion detection in breast magnetic resonance imaging

Authors

leila salehi

reza azmi

abstract

breast cancer continues to be a significant public health problem in the world. early detection is the key for improving breast cancer prognosis. in this way, magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is emerging as a powerful tool for the detection of breast cancer. breast mri presently has two major challenges. first, its specificity is relatively poor, and it detects many false positives (fps). second, the method involves acquiring several high‑resolution image volumes before, during, and after the injection of a contrast agent. the large volume of data makes the task of interpretation by the radiologist both complex and time‑consuming. these challenges have led to the development of the computer‑aided detection systems to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the interpretation process. detection of suspicious regions of interests (rois) is a critical preprocessing step in dynamic contrast‑enhanced (dce)‑mri data evaluation. in this regard, this paper introduces a new automatic method to detect the suspicious rois for breast dce‑mri based on region growing. the results indicate that the proposed method is thoroughly able to identify suspicious regions (accuracy of 75.39 ± 3.37 on pider breast mri dataset). furthermore, the fp per image in this method is averagely 7.92, which shows considerable improvement comparing to other methods like roi hunter.

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journal of medical signals and sensors

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