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Classification of Individual and Clustered Microcalcifications in Digital Mammograms Using Evolutionary Neural Networks.
- Source :
- Micai 2006: Advances in Artificial Intelligence; 2006, p1200-1210, 11p
- Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- Breast cancer is one of the main causes of death in women and early diagnosis is an important means to reduce the mortality rate. The presence of microcalcification clusters are primary indicators of early stages of malignant types of breast cancer and its detection is important to prevent the disease. This paper proposes a procedure for the classification of microcalcification clusters in mammograms using sequential difference of gaussian filters (DoG) and three evolutionary artificial neural networks (EANNs) compared against a feedforward artificial neural network (ANN) trained with backpropagation. We found that the use of genetic algorithms (GAs) for finding the optimal weight set for an ANN, finding an adequate initial weight set before starting a backpropagation training algorithm and designing its architecture and tuning its parameters, results mainly in improvements in overall accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of an ANN, compared with other networks trained with simple backpropagation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISBNs :
- 9783540490265
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Micai 2006: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
- Publication Type :
- Book
- Accession number :
- 76796547
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/11925231_115