You are invited for an EMBS Ottawa Chapter Sponsored talk:
Title: Fractal Analysis of Breast Masses in Mammograms
Speaker: Dr. Raj Rangayyan, Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary
Date: May 19, 2017
Time: 15:00 – 17:00
Place: Mackenzie Building Room 4359, Carleton University
Refreshments will be served.
Admission: Free
Abstract:
Fractal analysis has been shown to be useful in image processing for characterization of shape and gray-scale complexity. Breast masses present shape and gray-scale characteristics that vary between benign masses and malignant tumors in mammograms. The fractal dimension of the contour of a mass may be computed either directly from the 2-dimensional (2D) contour or from a 1-dimensional (1D) signature derived from the contour. This seminar presents a study of four methods to compute the fractal dimension of the contours of breast masses, including the ruler method and the box-counting method applied to 1D and 2D representations of the contours. The methods were applied to a data set of 111 contours of breast masses. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was performed to assess and compare the performance of fractal dimension and a few shape factors in the classification of breast masses as benign or malignant. Fractal dimension was observed to complement other shape factors, in particular fractional concavity, in the representation of the complexity of the contours. The combination of fractal dimension with fractional concavity yielded the highest area under the ROC curve of 0.93. The seminar will also present a few other perspectives on fractal analysis and classification of breast masses
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Rangaraj M. Rangayyan is Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He received the Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 1976 from the University of Mysore at the People’s Education Society College of Engineering, Mandya, Karnataka, India, and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, in 1980. He served the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and the University of Calgary in research, academic, and administrative positions from 1981 to 2016. His research interests are in digital signal and image processing, biomedical signal and image analysis, and computer-aided diagnosis.
Dr. Rangayyan has published more than 160 papers in journals and 270 papers in proceedings of conferences. He has supervised or cosupervised 27 Master’s theses, 17 Doctoral theses, and more than 50 researchers at various levels. He has been recognized with the 1997 and 2001 Research Excellence Awards of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the 1997 Research Award of the Faculty of Engineering, by appointment as “University Professor” (2003 to 2013) at the University of Calgary, and with an Outstanding Teaching Performance Award of the Schulich School of Engineering (2016). He is the author of two textbooks: “Biomedical Signal Analysis” (IEEE/ Wiley, 2002, 2015) and “Biomedical Image Analysis” (CRC, 2005). He has coauthored and coedited several other books, including “Color Image Processing with Biomedical Applications” (SPIE, 2011). He has been recognized with the 2013 IEEE Canada Outstanding Engineer Medal, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000), and elected as Fellow, IEEE (2001); Fellow, Engineering Institute of Canada (2002); Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2003); Fellow, SPIE (2003); Fellow, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (2007); Fellow, Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society (2007); Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering (2009); and Fellow, Royal Society of Canada (2016).
Dr. Rangayyan’s research has been featured in many newsletters, magazines, and newspapers, as well as in several radio and television interviews. He has lectured in more than 20 countries and has held Visiting Professorships with the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland; Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti, Bucharest, Romania; Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil; Universidade Estadual Paulista, Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brasil; Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA; Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India; Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India; Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, Karnataka, India; Amity University, Noida, India; Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China; Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China; Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan; University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy; and École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, Brest, France. He has been recognized as a Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), the University of Toronto, and the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. He was an invited lecturer at the prestigious 11th IEEE EMBS International Summer School on Biomedical Imaging, Saint-Jacut de la Mer, Bretagne, France, 2014.