Classification of microcalcifications in digital mammograms using trend-oriented radial basis function neural network

Abstract

We proposed some novel classification features for the microcalcification of mammograms, and selected the effective combined features using Karhunen–Loeve (KL) transformation followed by the restricted Euclidean distance measure, and finally applied the proposed trend-oriented radial basis function neural network (TRBF-NN) to distinguish the benign group from the malignant group and evaluate the performance with the round-robin method. The two-dimensional KL features were more distinguishable than the raw two-dimensional features. The TRBF-NN was able to define the more generalized distribution than those distributions defined by the conventional RBF-NNs. According to the receiver operating characteristic analysis, the proposed system performed better than two trained radiologists.