Automatic localization of the nipple in mammograms using Gabor filters and the Radon transform

Jayasree Chakraborty; Sudipta Mukhopadhyay; Rangaraj M. Rangayyan; Anup Sadhu; P. M. Azevedo-Marques

doi:10.1117/12.2006787

28 February 2013 Automatic localization of the nipple in mammograms using Gabor filters and the Radon transform

Jayasree Chakraborty, Sudipta Mukhopadhyay, Rangaraj M. Rangayyan, Anup Sadhu, P. M. Azevedo-Marques

Proceedings Volume 8670, Medical Imaging 2013: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 86701S (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2006787
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2013, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando Area), Florida, United States

Abstract

The nipple is an important landmark in mammograms. Detection of the nipple is useful for alignment and registration of mammograms in computer-aided diagnosis of breast cancer. In this paper, a novel approach is proposed for automatic detection of the nipple based on the oriented patterns of the breast tissues present in mammograms. The Radon transform is applied to the oriented patterns obtained by a bank of Gabor filters to detect the linear structures related to the tissue patterns. The detected linear structures are then used to locate the nipple position using the characteristics of convergence of the tissue patterns towards the nipple. The performance of the method was evaluated with 200 scanned-film images from the mini-MIAS database and 150 digital radiography (DR) images from a local database. Average errors of 5:84 mm and 6:36 mm were obtained with respect to the reference nipple location marked by a radiologist for the mini-MIAS and the DR images, respectively.

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Jayasree Chakraborty, Sudipta Mukhopadhyay, Rangaraj M. Rangayyan, Anup Sadhu, and P. M. Azevedo-Marques "Automatic localization of the nipple in mammograms using Gabor filters and the Radon transform", Proc. SPIE 8670, Medical Imaging 2013: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 86701S (28 February 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2006787

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