▒ ▒ ▒ Project Demo : Microcalcification Detection for Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) ▒ ▒ ▒

	Developing of Digital Mammography System For Asian Women - Microcalcification Detection for Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD)

	2002 . 12 ~ current

1. Breast cancer

	A leading cause of death among middle-aged women.
	Early detection can reduce the mortality.
	Microcalcification is one of the earliest signs of breast cancer.
	Microcalcification detection is an important part in CAD system.

2. Mammography

	A special kind of x-ray to visualize the internal structure of the breast.
	Mammogram is result image of X-ray picture

Fig 1. Examples of Mammogram with Microcalcification

3. Full-Filed Digital Mammography (FFDM)

	Mammogram is captured by computer
	Store, display, transmission
	Chance image by the radiologist - zoom, chance dynamic range and contrast

4. Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD)

	Find potential cancer or abnormal area on mammogram using computer
	The radiologist check especially closely in making area

5. A CAD system for Microcalcification detection

Fig 2. Overall procedure of CAD system for Microcalcification detection

	Two detection layers for microcalcification
	Adopting SVM at each detection layer

	A) 1st detection layer : ROI generation (Potential pixel detection)

	B) 2nd detection layer : Microcalcification decision (Potential region detection)

	Microcalcification detection example

(a) Original image (b) ROI detection (c) Microcalcification detection

Kwon Ju Won

nalychee@icu.ac.kr r

Personal History

	2000. 03 ~ 2005. 02. Electrical Engineering in Inha Univ. Univ.
	2005. 03 ~ 2006. 08. Master in Information and Communications Univ.
	2006. 09 ~ current Ph.D Course in Information and Communications Univ.

Interest Field

	Mammography, CAD (Computer Aided Diagnosis)
	Pattern Recognition

	강호경, Nguyen N. Thanh, 노용만, 김성민, 김원하, “CAD 시스템에서 미세석회화의 적응 검출 방법의 연구,” 대한의용생체공학회 추계학술대회, p. 610-613 , 2003
	강호경, 노용만, 김성민, 최연현, “마모그래피에서 미세석회화의 적응적 대비도 강화에 대한 연구,” 제 30회 춘계의용생체공학회, p.81 , may. 2004.
	Ho-Kyung Kang, Sung-Min Kim, Nguyen N. Thanh,Yong Man Ro, and Won-Ha Kim, “Adaptive Microcalcification Detection in Computer Aided Diagnosis,” LNCS(Lecture Notes in Computer Science) 3039 , June. 2004
	Ho-Kyung Kang, Sung-Min Kim, Nguyen N. Thanh,Yong Man Ro, and Won-Ha Kim, “Adaptive Microcalcification Detection in Computer Aided Diagnosis,” LNCS(Lecture Notes in Computer Science) 3039 , June. 2004
	강호경, 노용만, 김성민, 최연현, “CAD 시스템에서 미세석회화 검출을 위한 마모그램 전처리 과정,” 추계의용생체공학회, p.117 , 2004
	Ho-Kyung Kang, Sung-Min Kim, Yong Man Ro, "Microcalcification Detection System for computer Aided Diagnosis,” CISST2005, p.237~243 , June 2005
	Hokyung Kang, Yong Man Ro, Sung Min Kim, “A Microcalcification Detection Using Adaptive Contrast Enhancement on Wavelet Transform and Neural Network,” IEICE TRANS. on Information & Systems IEICE Trans.on information and systems Vol.E89-D,NO.3 pp.1280 - 1287 March 2006
	권주원, 강호경, Do Quan, 노용만, 김성민, “미세석회화 검출을 위한 SVM 개발,” 제19회 신호처리합동학술대회 2006 , 제 19권 제 1호, pp. 93
	Do Quan, Ho-Kyung Kang, Ju Won Kwon, Yong Man Ro, Sungmin Kim, “A novel approach to mass detection based on measuring centroid distribution,” 제19회 신호처리합동학술대회 2006 신호처리합동학술대회, 제 19권 제 1호, pp. 94
	Ju Won Kwon, Hokyoung Kang, Yong Man Ro, Sung Min Kim, “A Microcalcification Detection Using Multi-Layer Support Vector Machine in Korean Digital Mammogram,” World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, pp. 2208-2211, sep. 2006
	권주원, 강호경, 노용만, 김성민, “한국형 디지털 마모그래피에서 SVM을 이용한 계층적 미세석회화 검출 방법,” 대한의용생체공학회 논문지 2006년 제 27권 제 5호, pp. 291-299
	Ju Won Kwon, Yong Man Ro, Sung Min Kim, “Improvement of SVM based Microcalcification Detection,” Asian Forum on Medical Imaging 2007, Vol.2 pp.129-132