In this paper a new approach to mass classification based on multi-agent (MA) method is proposed for CAD in
mammography. Multi-agent method is used here as a method that fuses the classification information from multiple
classifiers in order to obtain a better decision result. Each agent receives the measurement value of individual classifier
as initial value in classifying a sample and sends a message to a decision center. The decision center responds to this
message with analysis of the correlation among these classifiers and their own decisions information. If the analysis
result is conformable to a given standard, the center will provide a final result. Otherwise the message of agent had to be
modified iteratively. 128 ROIs, including 64 benign masses and 64 malignant masses, from the DDSM, were used in the
mass classification experiment. In comparison with the majority voting based fusion method, we evaluated the
performance of proposed multi-agent fusion approach in distinguishing malignant and benign masses. The results
demonstrated that the multi-agent method outperforms the majority voting method. Multi-agent fusion method yielded
an accuracy of 95.47%, while the majority voting method had an accuracy of 92.23%. In addition, a preliminary study of
MA method for mass classification under the bi-view model is reported. All of these experiments showed that the
multi-agent method can play a significant role in multiple classifier fusion to improve mass classification in
mammography.
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