Table 3.

Previous Publications on Semi/Automated Lesion Classification in Breast MRI

Ref #	Author (year)	Case #	Lesion Segmentation	Feature	Statistical Analysis
15	Gihuijs (1998)	15 M, 13 B	Manual	3D shape-based	LDA
16	Gibbs (2003)	20 M, 23 B	Manual	GLCM Texture, DCE	LDA
18	Chen (2004)	77 M, 44 B	Region growing	DCE	T-test
19	Chen (2005)	77 M, 44 B	FCM	N/A	N/A
20	Chen (2006)	77 M, 44 B	FCM	Hot Spot DCE	T-test
17	Liney (2006)	32 M, 15 B	Threshold	Shape-based, DCE	T-test
21	Meinel (2007)	40 M, 23 B	Region growing	Shape-based, DCE	BNN
30	Chen (2007)	77 M, 44 B	FCM	3D texture	T-test

M: malignant lesions; B: benign lesions; FCM: fuzzy c-means; GLCM: gray level co-occurrence matrices. DCE: Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced parameters, LDA: Linear Discriminative Analysis, BNN: Backpropagation Neural Network