Morphological filtering and multiresolution fusion for mammographic microcalcification detection

Lulin Chen; Chang Wen Chen; Kevin J. Parker

doi:10.1117/12.274183

25 April 1997 Morphological filtering and multiresolution fusion for mammographic microcalcification detection

Lulin Chen, Chang Wen Chen, Kevin J. Parker

Proceedings Volume 3034, Medical Imaging 1997: Image Processing; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.274183
Event: Medical Imaging 1997, 1997, Newport Beach, CA, United States

Abstract

Mammographic images are often of relatively low contrast and poor sharpness with non-stationary background or clutter and are usually corrupted by noise. In this paper, we propose a new method for microcalcification detection using gray scale morphological filtering followed by multiresolution fusion and present a unified general filtering form called the local operating transformation for whitening filtering and adaptive thresholding. The gray scale morphological filters are used to remove all large areas that are considered as non-stationary background or clutter variations, i.e., to prewhiten images. The multiresolution fusion decision is based on matched filter theory. In addition to the normal matched filter, the Laplacian matched filter which is directly related through the wavelet transforms to multiresolution analysis is exploited for microcalcification feature detection. At the multiresolution fusion stage, the region growing techniques are used in each resolution level. The parent-child relations between resolution levels are adopted to make final detection decision. FROC is computed from test on the Nijmegen database.

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Lulin Chen, Chang Wen Chen, and Kevin J. Parker "Morphological filtering and multiresolution fusion for mammographic microcalcification detection", Proc. SPIE 3034, Medical Imaging 1997: Image Processing, (25 April 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.274183

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