Fusion of classifiers for REIS-based detection of suspicious breast lesions

Dror Lederman; Xingwei Wang; Bin Zheng; Jules H. Sumkin; Mitchell Tublin; David Gur

doi:10.1117/12.877368

3 March 2011 Fusion of classifiers for REIS-based detection of suspicious breast lesions

Dror Lederman, Xingwei Wang, Bin Zheng, Jules H. Sumkin, Mitchell Tublin, David Gur

Proceedings Volume 7966, Medical Imaging 2011: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment; 79661C (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.877368
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2011, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), Florida, United States

Abstract

After developing a multi-probe resonance-frequency electrical impedance spectroscopy (REIS) system aimed at detecting women with breast abnormalities that may indicate a developing breast cancer, we have been conducting a prospective clinical study to explore the feasibility of applying this REIS system to classify younger women (< 50 years old) into two groups of "higher-than-average risk" and "average risk" of having or developing breast cancer. The system comprises one central probe placed in contact with the nipple, and six additional probes uniformly distributed along an outside circle to be placed in contact with six points on the outer breast skin surface. In this preliminary study, we selected an initial set of 174 examinations on participants that have completed REIS examinations and have clinical status verification. Among these, 66 examinations were recommended for biopsy due to findings of a highly suspicious breast lesion ("positives"), and 108 were determined as negative during imaging based procedures ("negatives"). A set of REIS-based features, extracted using a mirror-matched approach, was computed and fed into five machine learning classifiers. A genetic algorithm was used to select an optimal subset of features for each of the five classifiers. Three fusion rules, namely sum rule, weighted sum rule and weighted median rule, were used to combine the results of the classifiers. Performance evaluation was performed using a leave-one-case-out cross-validation method. The results indicated that REIS may provide a new technology to identify younger women with higher than average risk of having or developing breast cancer. Furthermore, it was shown that fusion rule, such as a weighted median fusion rule and a weighted sum fusion rule may improve performance as compared with the highest performing single classifier.

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Dror Lederman, Xingwei Wang, Bin Zheng, Jules H. Sumkin, Mitchell Tublin, and David Gur "Fusion of classifiers for REIS-based detection of suspicious breast lesions", Proc. SPIE 7966, Medical Imaging 2011: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment, 79661C (3 March 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.877368

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