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Breast density differs from almost entirely fatty to extremely dense tissue composition. In mammography screenings, physicians are often supported by computer-aided detection and diagnosis systems (CAD) whose detection rate is affected by the density of the breast. An automatic pre-assessment of breast density would enable a specific analysis adapted to each density class. Digital mammograms from the INbreast database [1] are decomposed into Haar-Wavelet components and several levels are used for classification. A random forest classifier is applied on the averaged Wavelet components for four class densities which yields an accuracy of 64.53% in CC-view and 51.22% in MLO-view. The 3-class problem with a combined class of medium densities yields an accuracy of 73.89% in CC-view and 67.80% in MLO-view.
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Schebesch, F., Unberath, M., Andersen, I., Maier, A. (2016). Breast Density Assessment Using Wavelet Features on Mammograms. In: Tolxdorff, T., Deserno, T., Handels, H., Meinzer, HP. (eds) Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 2016. Informatik aktuell. Springer Vieweg, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49465-3_9
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