Azmi Reza, Norozi Narges, Anbiaee Robab, Salehi Leila, Amirzadi Azardokht
Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran.
J Med Signals Sens. 2011 May;1(2):138-48.
Breast lesion segmentation in magnetic resonance (MR) images is one of the most important parts of clinical diagnostic tools. Pixel classification methods have been frequently used in image segmentation with two supervised and unsupervised approaches up to now. Supervised segmentation methods lead to high accuracy, but they need a large amount of labeled data, which is hard, expensive, and slow to be obtained. On the other hand, unsupervised segmentation methods need no prior knowledge and lead to low performance. However, semi-supervised learning which uses not only a few labeled data, but also a large amount of unlabeled data promises higher accuracy with less effort. In this paper, we propose a new interactive semi-supervised approach to segmentation of suspicious lesions in breast MRI. Using a suitable classifier in this approach has an important role in its performance; in this paper, we present a semi-supervised algorithm improved self-training (IMPST) which is an improved version of self-training method and increase segmentation accuracy. Experimental results show that performance of segmentation in this approach is higher than supervised and unsupervised methods such as K nearest neighbors, Bayesian, Support Vector Machine, and Fuzzy c-Means.
磁共振(MR)图像中的乳腺病变分割是临床诊断工具的重要组成部分之一。像素分类方法在图像分割中经常被使用,目前有监督和无监督两种方法。有监督分割方法准确率高,但需要大量的标注数据,获取这些数据困难、昂贵且耗时。另一方面,无监督分割方法不需要先验知识,但性能较低。然而,半监督学习不仅使用少量标注数据,还使用大量未标注数据,有望以较少的工作量获得更高的准确率。在本文中,我们提出了一种新的交互式半监督方法来分割乳腺MRI中的可疑病变。在这种方法中使用合适的分类器对其性能起着重要作用;在本文中,我们提出了一种改进的半监督算法——改进自训练(IMPST),它是自训练方法的改进版本,提高了分割准确率。实验结果表明,这种方法的分割性能高于有监督和无监督方法,如K近邻、贝叶斯、支持向量机和模糊c均值。