Research Article

Ensemble Learning-Based Hybrid Segmentation of Mammographic Images for Breast Cancer Risk Prediction Using Fuzzy C-Means and CNN Model

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Related works in tabular form.

Author and yearAlgorithm implementedWorkingDatasetResearch outcomeAdvantages

Anitha and Peter, 2015 [8]MCSU in cellular automataMammographic image preprocessed to remove noise, markers, pectoral muscles, and unwanted information. Peak analysis is done and enhanced by CLAHE followed by automatic selection of seed and finally updating the cellular strength using cellular automataMini-MIAS, 70 samplesThe specificity of the dataset is maintained and improvedThe initial seed selection needs no manual interception; the automatic pick of seed point is done

Gupta and Tiwari, 2017 [14]HM-GRA and CLAHEThe histogram of the mammographic image was generated and the selection of parameters for enhancement was performed. The modification of the histogram is done using the uniform histogram. The grey relational analysis was used to improve the contrast and further normalization and segmentation of ROI was presentedMini-MIAS 322 samplesThe contrast of the image is enhanced to improve minute calcification by decreasing the ratio of false positivesGlobal and local contrast is improved, and sensitivity and specificity both are taken care of at the same time

Taghanaki et al., 2017Geometry-based modelThe maximum area in the breast contour is covered along with the boundary to be marked for early detectionINbreast, DDSM, MIAS, 197, 353, and 322 samplesThe precision of ROI segmentation increasedIt works perfectly with multilayered samples having a lot of variations in intensity and edge boundary

Shi et al., 2018 [16]Gradient weight map, pixel wise clustering, and local text filterArtifacts removed from original image further segmentation are done based on pixel-wise clustering, followed by detection of the boundary of breast muscles. Finally, a local texture filter is used to detect calcificationMIAS, BCDR, INbreast, 322, 100, and 201 samplesIt is immune to noises and can detect calcification in dense breasts too. With few settings, FFDM images can also analyze effectivelyThe distinction of skin air boundary marked by the proposed algorithm gradient weight map in compassion to another threshold-based algorithm

Shen et al., 2018 [17]A genetic algorithm for threshold and segmentation and morphological selectionThe genetic algorithm was implemented to study multilevel threshold, segmentation, and classification based on pectoral muscle segmentation done to classify between successful, acceptable, and unacceptableMIAS, DDSM, and INbreastThe precision of segmentation is higher in comparison to other existing algorithmsThe classification between acceptable, unacceptable, and successful. The sensitivity was then checked for unacceptable samples

Hazarika and Mahanta, 2018 [18]Pectoral muscle removal using region growingA suppression algorithm is applied, and further, the samples whose results come comparable and close with the hand-drawn segmented mask are distinguished as acceptedMini-mias and 150 samples86.67% is the accuracy of acceptable and 5.33% for partially fairHand-drawn segmentation mask compare the accuracy of segmentation algorithm given

Alam, et al., 2018 [19]Segmentation using morphologyMorphological and interpolation operations are used to segment ROI, and further splitting is done based on intensity value. For creating clusters of microcalcification area, ranking is used on the differenced imageDDSM, MIAS,248, and 24 samplesThe highest classification accuracy is 94.48% approximateDice metric similarity score was calculated to measure the evaluation, and further reference masks were also used

Anitha and Peter, 2015 [20]KFLS (kernel-based fuzzy clustering)One the preprocessing of the mammogram is done then ROI, which is segmented out using fuzzy C-means clustering segmentation methodDDSM and 300 samples94% segmentation precision in terms of sensitivityAs it is based on an intelligent system, i.e., fuzzy clustering, it provides high precision

Touil and Kalti, 2016 [21]IFBS (iterative fuzzy breast segmentation algorithm)The image is divided into k clusters to remove the over-segmentation background region and extract perfect ROIMIAS and 200 samplesAs compared to the manual ROI curve, its performance is 60% betterIt reduces the over-segmentation of the background

Kozegar et al., 2018 [22]DRLSE and OBNLM filterRegion growing with combination with GMM is used, followed by despeckling and fine segmentation. DRLSE was modified in the paperUltrasound images and 50 samplesIt assumed that seed position is known before as it does not work on images with edgesAlso, work where the variance is different

Aggarwal and Chatha, 2019 [23]Edge detection algorithm is designed on 8-bit grayscale imageBinarization is done to reduce the data reduction step using an edge detection algorithmMIAS 50 random samplesIt reduced the difference between region of interest and backgroundData reduction leads to loss of information can be reduced by using multilevel thresholding

Tembhurne et al., 2021 [24]Computer-aided transfer learning-based deep model for binary classification for breast cancer detectionMultichannel merging methods for making a dual-ensemble architectureBreak-his dataset is usedEnsemble architectures by using pretrained models like Xception and InceptionV3 results in an accuracy of 97.5% is achievedCombining different algorithms gives better accuracy over measuring accuracy from one algorithm

Malathi et.al., 2021 [25]The algorithm uses breast CAD scheme feature fusion using CNN deep features networkThe abnormality in breast images is scrutinized through deep belief network  CAD images are usedThe outcome shows random forest algorithm is giving an accuracy of around 97.51% over the CNN classifierThe algorithm removes the point spread function where low-dose medical CT image restoration and recovers the reconstructed image quality, efficiency, and speed through sparse transform

Fang et al., 2021 [26]Configuration of the multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network multilayer perceptron network using backpropagation networkA new training algorithm is proposed based on whale optimization for MLP networkMIAS 332 digitized mammography imagesDetection performance is detected using detection rate and identification with the false percentageAccuracy is achieved as compared to other methods