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FEATUREEXTRACTIONFROMBILATERALDISSIMILARITYINDIGITAL

BREASTTOMOSYNTHESISRECONSTRUCTEDVOLUME

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DaeHoeKim,SeongTaeKim,WissamJ.BaddarandYongManRo

DepartmentofElectricalEngineering,KAIST,Daejeon,305-701,RlicofKorea

tryoftheinternalstructuresoverbroadareas,evenifone

breastmaybelargerthantheother[6].Therefore,the

Inthispaper,weproposebilateralfeaturesforclassifyingasymmetryweentheleftandrightbreastsofagivensub-

breastmassesbyextractingtheasymmetricinformationofjectisanimportantsignusedbyradiologiststodiagnose

boththeleftandtherightbreastsinthedigitalbreasttomo-breastcancerandreduceFPs[7].Accordingly,incomputer-

synthesis(DBT)reconstructedvolume.Clinically,itisaideddetection(CAD)ofmassesinmammogram,many

knownthattheleftandtherightbreastofthesamepatientresearchefforts[8,9]havebeenfocusedonthedevelop-ment

tendtopresentahighdegreeofsymmetryofinternalstruc-ofabilateralanalysistoimprovemassdetectionsensi-tivity,

turesoverbroadareas.Ontheotherhand,massesappearasandatthesametime,reducethenumber