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Presentation 2009-01-19 13:45
Using Tumor Morphology to Classify Benign and Malignant Solid Breast Masses:Speckle Reduction Imaging (SRI) versus Non-SRI Ultrasound Imaging
Hsien-Chang Chuang (Tunghai Univ.), Dar-Ren Chen (Changhua Christian Hospital), Yu-Len Huang (Tunghai Univ.) MI2008-64
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) In this paper, we attempted to compare the diagnostic performance of speckle reduction imaging (SRI) ultrasound and non-SRI ultrasound using sonographic technique to classify benign and malignant breast tumors by morphology. This study evaluated 110 breast lesions. A total of 72 benign and 38 malignant breast tumor images with pathologic proven cases were analyzed. The suspicious tumor contours on both SRI and non-SRI ultrasound images were manually sketched by experienced physicians. Twenty practical morphologic features from the extracted contour were calculated and a support vector machine (SVM) classifier identified the breast tumor as benign or malignant. Conventional binormal receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve analysis used overall morphologic features from the breast lesions in SRI and non-SRI ultrasound. The area under the ROC curve (Az) was 0.8105 and 0.8241, respectively. This difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.343). The sensitivity was 78.9% and 84.2% (p = 0.554), respectively; the specificity was 73.6% and 70.8% (p = 0.881), respectively; the difference were not statistically significant. According to our study, both non-SRI and SRI methods are helpful to classify benign and malignant breast tumors by morphology, and the diagnostic performance is almost identical without statistical significance.
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(in English) speckle reduction imaging / breast sonography / tumor classification / tumor segmentation / support vector machine / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 108, no. 385, MI2008-64, pp. 33-36, Jan. 2009.
Paper # MI2008-64 
Date of Issue 2009-01-12 (MI) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee MI  
Conference Date 2009-01-19 - 2009-01-21 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) National Taiwan University 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Medical Imaging 
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Conference Code 2009-01-MI 
Language English 
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Title (in English) Using Tumor Morphology to Classify Benign and Malignant Solid Breast Masses:Speckle Reduction Imaging (SRI) versus Non-SRI Ultrasound Imaging 
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Keyword(1) speckle reduction imaging  
Keyword(2) breast sonography  
Keyword(3) tumor classification  
Keyword(4) tumor segmentation  
Keyword(5) support vector machine  
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1st Author's Name Hsien-Chang Chuang  
1st Author's Affiliation Tunghai University (Tunghai Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Dar-Ren Chen  
2nd Author's Affiliation Changhua Christian Hospital (Changhua Christian Hospital)
3rd Author's Name Yu-Len Huang  
3rd Author's Affiliation Tunghai University (Tunghai Univ.)
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Date Time 2009-01-19 13:45:00 
Presentation Time 10 minutes 
Registration for MI 
Paper # MI2008-64 
Volume (vol) vol.108 
Number (no) no.385 
Page pp.33-36 
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Date of Issue 2009-01-12 (MI) 


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