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Rangaraj M. Rangayyan
Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Schulich School of Engineering
Calgary, Alberta, CANADA
Fractal Analysis of Breast Massesin Mammograms
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Breast Masses and Tumors
❖Benign masses
➢ Round or oval, smooth, macrolobulated
➢ Homogeneous
➢ Well-defined, well-circumscribed, sharp
❖Malignant tumors (breast cancer)
➢ Spiculated, rough, microlobulated
➢ Heterogeneous
➢ Ill-defined, ill-circumscribed, blurry
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Mammogram with a Benign Mass
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Mammogram with a Malignant Tumor
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Mammogram with aMalignant Tumor
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Examples of Breast Masses
Benign, Benign, Malignant, Malignant, round macrolobulated microlobulated spiculated
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Fractals and Breast Masses
Self similarity at multiple scales:macrolobulated versus microlobulated contours
Nested patterns or complexity:• smooth versus rough contours• convex versus spiculated contours• geometric versus space-filling curves
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Cauliflower as a Fractal
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Cauliflower as a Fractal
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Circumscribed Benign (CB) Spiculated Benign (SB)
Circumscribed Malignant (CM)Spiculated Malignant (SM)
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Fractal Dimension: Application to Breast Masses
❖ Fractal dimension can characterize
the shape differences between
benign masses and malignant tumors
❖ Fractal analysis can also be used
to characterize the texture of suspicious regions in mammograms
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Self-similarity Dimension
a = number of self-similar pieces
1/s = reduction factor
D = self-similarity dimension
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The Koch Snowflake Fractal Dimension = 1.262
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The Box-counting Method
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Result of Box-counting for the Koch Snowflake
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FD = 1.264
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The Ruler Method
Let u be the length measured with a ruler of size s
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The Ruler Method Applied to a 2D Contour
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1D Signature of a 2D Contour
A 2D contour may be converted to a 1D signature using the distance of each contour point to the centroid (x0, y0)
d = [ (x - x0) 2 + (y – y0)
2 ] 1/2
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1D Signature of a 2D Contour
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1D Signature of a Benign Mass
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1D Signature of a Malignant Tumor
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The Ruler Method Applied to a 1D Signature of a 2D Contour
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The Ruler Method Applied to a 1D Signature of a 2D Contour
FD = 1.15
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Fractional Brownian Motion
Hurst exponent 0 < H < 1
For a self-affine process in the n-dimensional Euclidean space
D + H = n + 1
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Fractional Brownian Motion
Hurst exponent = 0.2 model FD = 1.8estimated FD = 1.807
Hurst exponent = 0.5model FD = 1.5estimated FD = 1.5076
Hurst exponent = 0.8model FD = 1.2estimated FD = 1.2081
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FD via Spectral Analysisof Signatures of Contours
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FD via Spectral Analysisof Signatures of Contours
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Fractal Analysis of Grayscale Images: Blanket Method
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Fractal Analysis of Grayscale Images: Blanket Method
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Fractal Analysis of Grayscale Images: Spectral Method
1. Compute the 2D Fourier transform of the image
2. Compute the 2D PSD
3. Transform the 2D PSD into a 1D PSD by radial averaging
4. Fit a straight line to a selected range of frequencies of the
1D PSD on a log−log scale
5. Determine the slope β of the best-fitting straight line
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ROI, s(x, y) Fourier power
spectrum, S(u, v)
Power spectrum in
polar coordinates, S(f, θ)
θ
f
Angular spread of power, S(θ)
Radial frequency
spectrum, S(f)
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Fractal Analysis of Grayscale Images: Example
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Experiments with Contours of Breast Masses in Mammograms
❖Dataset # 1: • 57 contours: 37 benign, 20 malignant
❖Dataset # 2: • 54 contours: 28 benign, 26 malignant
▪ 16 CB: circumscribed benign
▪ 12 SB: spiculated benign
▪ 7 CM: circumscribed malignant
▪ 19 SM: spiculated malignant
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Threshold
1.31
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Threshold
1.28
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Classification of Masses
Dataset # 1
❖ Fractal dimension
➢ Benign: 1.14 ± 0.06
➢ Malignant: 1.43 ± 0.16
❖ Classification accuracy
➢ 54/57 = 94.7%
Dataset # 2
❖ Fractal dimension
➢ Benign: 1.21 ± 0.10
➢ Malignant: 1.35 ± 0.12
❖ Classification accuracy
➢ 45/54 = 83.3%
with the ruler method and 1D signatures of the contours
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Pattern Classification
❖ Leave-one-out method
❖Receiver operating characteristics (ROC)
➢ Sensitivity = True-positive fraction
➢ Specificity = 1 – False-positive fraction
➢ Classification accuracy: area under the
ROC curve (AUC)
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Results of Classification AUC with Fractal Dimension
Method Dataset 1 Dataset 2 Both
2D box counting
0.90 0.75 0.84
1D box counting
0.89 0.80 0.88
2D ruler 0.94 0.81 0.88
1D ruler 0.91 0.80 0.89
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Comparative Analysis with Shape Factors: Compactness
❖Compactness C based on area A andperimeter P
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Convex Deficiency
Object Area OAConvex Hull Area HA
CD = (HA – OA) / HA
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Detection of Points of Inflexion: Benign (14) vs Malignant (58)
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Polygonal Modeling:Benign (36) vs Malignant (146)
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Fractional Concavity
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Spiculation Index
❖ Each segment of the contour is treated as a spicule candidate with length Si and angle θi
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Fourier Descriptors using Coordinates of Contour Pixels
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Fourier Descriptors
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Fourier Factor from Normalized Fourier Descriptors
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Benign versus Malignant Classification Performance: AUC
❖ Fourier factor (FF) 0.77❖ Compactness (C) 0.87❖ Fractional concavity (Fcc) 0.88❖ Fractal dimension (FD) 0.89❖ Spiculation index (SI) 0.90❖ [FD, Fcc] 0.93
with the two datasets combined (111 contours) and the ruler method on 1D signatures of the contours to compute FD
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Additional Experiments Including FFDMs
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Additional Experiments Including FFDMs
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Conclusion
❖ Significant differences exist in the fractal dimension between contours of malignant tumors and benign masses
❖ Fractal dimension can serve as a useful feature in computer-aided diagnosis of breast cancer
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Thank you! ❖ Natural Sciences and Engineering Research
Council of Canada
❖ Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research
❖ Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation
❖ Dr. J. E. Leo Desautels, Thanh Cabral,
Dr. Liang Shen, Dr. Naga Mudigonda,
Dr. Nema El-Faramawy, Dr. Hilary Alto,
Dr. Shantanu Banik, Dr. Faraz Oloumi,
Lucas Frighetto-Pereira