Computer aided detection systems for mammography typically use standard classification algorithms from machine learning for detecting lesions. However, these general purpose learning algorithms make implicit assumptions that arc commonly violated in CAD problems. We propose a new ensemble algorithm that explicitly accounts for the small fraction of outlier images which tend to produce a large number of false positives. A bootstrapping procedure is used to ensure that the candidates from these outlier images do not skew the statistical properties of the training samples. Experimental studies on the detection of clusters of micro-calcifications indicate that the proposed method significantly outperforms a state-of-the-art general purpose method for designing classifiers (SVM), in terms of FROC curves on a hold out test set. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.
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Fung, G., Krishnapuram, B., Merlet, N., Ratner, E., Bamberger, P., Stoeckel, J., & Rao, R. B. (2006). Addressing image variability while learning classifiers for detecting clusters of micro-calcifications. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4046 LNCS, pp. 84–91). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/11783237_12
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