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14 March 2011Automatic tissue classification for high-resolution
breast CT images based on bilateral filtering
Breast tissue classification can provide quantitative measurements of breast composition, density and tissue distribution
for diagnosis and identification of high-risk patients. In this study, we present an automatic classification method to
classify high-resolution dedicated breast CT images. The breast is classified into skin, fat and glandular tissue. First, we
use a multiscale bilateral filter to reduce noise and at the same time keep edges on the images. As skin and glandular
tissue have similar CT values in breast CT images, we use morphologic operations to get the mask of the skin based on
information of its position. Second, we use a modified fuzzy C-mean classification method twice, one for the skin and
the other for the fatty and glandular tissue. We compared our classified results with manually segmentation results and
used Dice overlap ratios to evaluate our classification method. We also tested our method using added noise in the
images. The overlap ratios for glandular tissue were above 94.7% for data from five patients. Evaluation results showed
that our method is robust and accurate.
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Xiaofeng Yang, Ioannis Sechopoulos, Baowei Fei, "Automatic tissue classification for high-resolution breast CT images based on bilateral filtering," Proc. SPIE 7962, Medical Imaging 2011: Image Processing, 79623H (14 March 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.877881