Automated volumetric breast density derived by shape and appearance modeling

Serghei Malkov; Karla Kerlikowske; John Shepherd

doi:10.1117/12.2043990

21 March 2014 Automated volumetric breast density derived by shape and appearance modeling

Serghei Malkov, Karla Kerlikowske, John Shepherd

Proceedings Volume 9034, Medical Imaging 2014: Image Processing; 90342T (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043990
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The image shape and texture (appearance) estimation designed for facial recognition is a novel and promising approach for application in breast imaging. The purpose of this study was to apply a shape and appearance model to automatically estimate percent breast fibroglandular volume (%FGV) using digital mammograms. We built a shape and appearance model using 2000 full-field digital mammograms from the San Francisco Mammography Registry with known %FGV measured by single energy absorptiometry method. An affine transformation was used to remove rotation, translation and scale. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was applied to extract significant and uncorrelated components of %FGV. To build an appearance model, we transformed the breast images into the mean texture image by piecewise linear image transformation. Using PCA the image pixels grey-scale values were converted into a reduced set of the shape and texture features. The stepwise regression with forward selection and backward elimination was used to estimate the outcome %FGV with shape and appearance features and other system parameters. The shape and appearance scores were found to correlate moderately to breast %FGV, dense tissue volume and actual breast volume, body mass index (BMI) and age. The highest Pearson correlation coefficient was equal 0.77 for the first shape PCA component and actual breast volume. The stepwise regression method with ten-fold cross-validation to predict %FGV from shape and appearance variables and other system outcome parameters generated a model with a correlation of r² = 0.8. In conclusion, a shape and appearance model demonstrated excellent feasibility to extract variables useful for automatic %FGV estimation. Further exploring and testing of this approach is warranted.

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Serghei Malkov, Karla Kerlikowske, and John Shepherd "Automated volumetric breast density derived by shape and appearance modeling", Proc. SPIE 9034, Medical Imaging 2014: Image Processing, 90342T (21 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043990

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