Classification of Breast Tumors Using Sonographic Texture Analysis

Objectives The purpose of this study was to evaluate a computer‐aided diagnostic system with texture analysis to improve radiologists' accuracy in identification of breast tumors as malignant or benign. Methods The database included 20 benign and 12 malignant tumors. We extracted 300 statistical texture features as descriptors for each selected region of interest in 3 normalization schemes (default, μ − 3σ, and μ + 3σ, where μ and σ were the...