Computer aided system for breast cancer in digitized mammogram using shearlet band features with LS-SVM classifier

Abstract

Breast cancer is life threatening and dangerous diseases among the women across the world. In this paper, mammogram image classification performed using LS-SVM with various kernels functions namely, Gaussian Radial Basis Function (GRBF) kernel, Polynomial kernel, Quadratic kernel, Linear kernel and MLP kernel. Shearlet transform is a multidimensional version of the composite dilation wavelet transform, and is especially designed to address anisotropic and directional information at various scales and directions, which is used to decompose the regions of interest (ROI) image after preprocessing stage. Initially, mammogram images are transformed into different resolution levels from 2 levels to 4 levels with various directions varying from 2 to 64. The evaluation of the system is carried out on the Mammography Image Analysis Society (MIAS) database. From the experimental analysis, based on classification accuracy and Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC), it is concluded that LS-SVM with Gaussian RBF kernel function outperforms than Quadratic, polynomial, linear and MLP kernel functions. The classifiers were validated with leave-one-out (training) and cross-validation (testing) modes.