Automatic Image Feature Extraction for Diagnosis and Prognosis of Breast Cancer

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Image Modalities

  • Mammography

    • Screening Mammography

    • Clinical Mammography

    • Detection and Classification of Masses

    • Detection of Stellate Lesions

    • Detection and Classification of Microcalcifications

  • Ultrasound

  • Fine Needle Aspiration Slides

• Image Features and Analysis

  • Geometric Features

    • The Boundary

    • Area, Volume, Radius, Height, Contrast

    • The Curse of Perimeter²/4π Area

    • Shape

  • Texture Features

    • Run-Length Matrices

    • Co-occurrence Matrices

    • Markovian Statistics

    • Example of Texture Arrays

    • Fractal Dimension

  • Morphology

  • Snakes

  • Wavelets

• Summary

• Acknowledgments

• References