Effect of a Novel Segment Algorithm on Radiologist’s Diagnosis of Masses Using Breast Ultrasound Imaging

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10.2991/jcis.2008.71How to use a DOI?

Keywords

breast, mass, segment algorithm, US, BI-RADS

Abstract

To investigate the effect of using a novel segment algorithm on radiologists’ sensitivity and specificity for discriminating malignant masses from benign masses using breast ultrasound (BUS) imaging. 510 conventional BUS images acquired from 109 masses were processed by the novel segment algorithm. Five radiologists were invited to analyze the original and computerized images independently according to the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System for Ultrasound (BI-RADS-US). The diagnostic sensitivity and specificity were calculated for each radiologist by means of a binary outcome using ROC. As a result, the proposed segment algorithm can highly improve the diagnosis performance of the radiologists by meliorating the margin of the mass and the contrast of the image.

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© 2008, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jia-Wei Tian
AU  - Chun-Ping Ning
AU  - Yan-Hui Guo
AU  - Xiang-Long Tang
AU  - Ying Wang
AU  - H.D. Cheng
PY  - 2008/12
DA  - 2008/12
TI  - Effect of a Novel Segment Algorithm on Radiologist’s Diagnosis of Masses Using Breast Ultrasound Imaging
BT  - Proceedings of the 11th Joint Conference on Information Sciences (JCIS 2008)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 419
EP  - 422
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/jcis.2008.71
DO  - 10.2991/jcis.2008.71
ID  - Tian2008/12
ER  -