Detection of arterial calcification in mammograms by random walks

Jie Zhi Cheng; Elodia B. Cole; Etta D. Pisano; Dinggang Shen

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02498-6_59

Detection of arterial calcification in mammograms by random walks

Jie Zhi Cheng, Elodia B. Cole, Etta D. Pisano, Dinggang Shen

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Abstract

A fully automatic algorithm is developed for breast arterial calcification extraction in mammograms. This algorithm is implemented in two major steps: a random-walk based tracking step and a compiling and linking step. With given seeds from detected calcification points, the tracking algorithm traverses the vesselness map by exploring the uncertainties of three tracking factors, i.e., traversing direction, jumping distance, and vesselness value, to generate all possible sampling paths. The compiling and linking algorithm further organizes and groups all sampling paths into calcified vessel tracts. The experimental results show that the performance of the proposed automatic calcification extraction algorithm is statistically close to that obtained by manual delineations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Information Processing in Medical Imaging - 21st International Conference, IPMI 2009, Proceedings
Pages	713-724
Number of pages	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02498-6_59
Publication status	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes
Event	21st International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, IPMI 2009 - Williamsburg, VA, United States Duration: 2009 Jul 5 → 2009 Jul 10

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	5636 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Other

Other	21st International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, IPMI 2009
Country	United States
City	Williamsburg, VA
Period	09/7/5 → 09/7/10

Keywords

Breast arterioal calcification
Mammogram
Random walk
Vessel detection

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
Computer Science(all)

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Cheng, J. Z., Cole, E. B., Pisano, E. D., & Shen, D. (2009). Detection of arterial calcification in mammograms by random walks. In Information Processing in Medical Imaging - 21st International Conference, IPMI 2009, Proceedings (pp. 713-724). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 5636 LNCS). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02498-6_59

Detection of arterial calcification in mammograms by random walks. / Cheng, Jie Zhi; Cole, Elodia B.; Pisano, Etta D.; Shen, Dinggang.

Information Processing in Medical Imaging - 21st International Conference, IPMI 2009, Proceedings. 2009. p. 713-724 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 5636 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Cheng, JZ, Cole, EB, Pisano, ED & Shen, D 2009, Detection of arterial calcification in mammograms by random walks. in Information Processing in Medical Imaging - 21st International Conference, IPMI 2009, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 5636 LNCS, pp. 713-724, 21st International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, IPMI 2009, Williamsburg, VA, United States, 09/7/5. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02498-6_59

Cheng JZ, Cole EB, Pisano ED, Shen D. Detection of arterial calcification in mammograms by random walks. In Information Processing in Medical Imaging - 21st International Conference, IPMI 2009, Proceedings. 2009. p. 713-724. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02498-6_59

Cheng, Jie Zhi ; Cole, Elodia B. ; Pisano, Etta D. ; Shen, Dinggang. / Detection of arterial calcification in mammograms by random walks. Information Processing in Medical Imaging - 21st International Conference, IPMI 2009, Proceedings. 2009. pp. 713-724 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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