期刊
MEDICAL PHYSICS
卷 33, 期 1, 页码 111-117出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1118/1.2143139
关键词
computer-aided detection; interactive computer-aided diagnosis; mammography; mass spiculation; visual similarity
资金
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [R01CA077850, R01CA101733] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NCI NIH HHS [CA77850, CA101733] Funding Source: Medline
The purpose of this study was to develop and test a method for selecting visually similar regions of interest depicting breast masses from a reference library to be used in an interactive computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) environment. A reference library including 1000 malignant mass regions and 2000 benign and CAD-generated false-positive regions was established. When a suspicious mass region is identified, the scheme segments the region and searches for similar regions from the reference library using a multifeature based k-nearest neighbor (KNN) algorithm. To improve selection of reference images, we added an interactive step. All actual masses in the reference library were subjectively rated on a scale from 1 to 9 as to their visual margins speculations. When an observer identifies a suspected mass region during a case interpretation he/she first rates the margins and the computerized search is then limited only to regions rated as having similar levels of spiculation (within 1 scale difference). In an observer preference study including 85 test regions, two sets of the six similar reference regions selected by the KNN with and without the interactive step were displayed side by side with each test region. Four radiologists and five nonclinician observers selected the more appropriate (similar) reference set in a two alternative forced choice preference experiment. All four radiologists and five nonclinician observers preferred the sets of regions selected by the interactive method with an average frequency of 76.8% and 74.6%, respectively. The overall preference for the interactive method was highly significant (p < 0.001). The Study demonstrated that a simple interactive approach that includes subjectively perceived ratings of one feature alone namely, a rating of margin spiculation, could substantially improve the selection of visually similar reference images. (c) 2006 American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
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