Radiomic modeling of BI-RADS density categories

Jun Wei; Heang-Ping Chan; Mark A. Helvie; Marilyn A. Roubidoux; Chuan Zhou; Lubomir Hadjiiski

doi:10.1117/12.2255175

3 March 2017 Radiomic modeling of BI-RADS density categories

Jun Wei, Heang-Ping Chan, Mark A. Helvie, Marilyn A. Roubidoux, Chuan Zhou, Lubomir Hadjiiski

Proceedings Volume 10134, Medical Imaging 2017: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 101340P (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2255175
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2017, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Screening mammography is the most effective and low-cost method to date for early cancer detection. Mammographic breast density has been shown to be highly correlated with breast cancer risk. We are developing a radiomic model for BI-RADS density categorization on digital mammography (FFDM) with a supervised machine learning approach. With IRB approval, we retrospectively collected 478 FFDMs from 478 women. As a gold standard, breast density was assessed by an MQSA radiologist based on BI-RADS categories. The raw FFDMs were used for computerized density assessment. The raw FFDM first underwent log-transform to approximate the x-ray sensitometric response, followed by multiscale processing to enhance the fibroglandular densities and parenchymal patterns. Three ROIs were automatically identified based on the keypoint distribution, where the keypoints were obtained as the extrema in the image Gaussian scale-space. A total of 73 features, including intensity and texture features that describe the density and the parenchymal pattern, were extracted from each breast. Our BI-RADS density estimator was constructed by using a random forest classifier. We used a 10-fold cross validation resampling approach to estimate the errors. With the random forest classifier, computerized density categories for 412 of the 478 cases agree with radiologist’s assessment (weighted kappa = 0.93). The machine learning method with radiomic features as predictors demonstrated a high accuracy in classifying FFDMs into BI-RADS density categories. Further work is underway to improve our system performance as well as to perform an independent testing using a large unseen FFDM set.

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Jun Wei, Heang-Ping Chan, Mark A. Helvie, Marilyn A. Roubidoux, Chuan Zhou, and Lubomir Hadjiiski "Radiomic modeling of BI-RADS density categories", Proc. SPIE 10134, Medical Imaging 2017: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 101340P (3 March 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2255175

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