Volume 32, Issue 2 pp. 564-574
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Malignancy detection on mammograms by integrating modified convolutional neural network classifier and texture features

Jayesh George Melekoodappattu

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Jayesh George Melekoodappattu

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Vimal Jyothi Engineering College, Kannur, Kerala, 670632 India

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Jayesh George Melekoodappattu, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Vimal Jyothi Engineering College, Kannur, Kerala, India.

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Anto Sahaya Dhas

Anto Sahaya Dhas

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Vimal Jyothi Engineering College, Kannur, Kerala, 670632 India

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Binil Kumar K.

Binil Kumar K.

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Vimal Jyothi Engineering College, Kannur, Kerala, 670632 India

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K. S. Adarsh

K. S. Adarsh

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Vimal Jyothi Engineering College, Kannur, Kerala, 670632 India

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First published: 29 July 2021
Citations: 2

Abstract

Breast cancer is detected by identifying malignancy on breast tissue. Emerging technologies in medical image processing are used to interpret histopathology images. For analyzing medical imaging and pathological data, modified deep neural networks are being used. Automatic detection of malignancy is usually achieved in deep learning by capturing features from a convolutional neural network (CNN) and then categorizing them using a fully connected network. A framework to automatically diagnose malignancy using an ensemble approach, including CNN and extraction of image texture features, is implemented in this research. In the CNN phase, the nine-layer modified CNN is used to classify images. Texture features are derived and their dimension is minimized using maximum variance unfolding to enhance the efficiency of classification in the extraction-based phase. The results of each phase were then merged to obtain the final decision. The testing specificity and accuracy of our ensemble method on MIAS repository are 98.9% and 99%, respectively and for the DDSM repository are 98.3% and 98.1%. The ensemble approach increases the measurement metrics compared to each phase separately, as per the experimental findings.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

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