Breast cancer occurs in the epithelial tissue of the gland, so the accuracy of gland segmentation is crucial to the physician's diagnosis. An innovative technique for breast mammography image gland segmentation is put forth in this paper. In the first step, the algorithm designed the gland segmentation evaluation function. Then a new mutation strategy is established, and the adaptive controlled variables are used to balance the ability of improved differential evolution (IDE) in terms of investigation and convergence. To evaluate its performance, The proposed method is validated on a number of benchmark breast images, including four types of glands from the Quanzhou First Hospital, Fujian, China. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm is been systematically compared to five state-of-the-art algorithms. From the average MSSIM and boxplot, the evidence suggests that the mutation strategy may be effective in searching the topography of the segmented gland problem. The experiment results demonstrated that the proposed method has the best gland segmentation results compared to other algorithms.
Citation: Mingzhu Li, Ping Li, Yao Liu. IDEFE algorithm: IDE algorithm optimizes the fuzzy entropy for the gland segmentation[J]. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2023, 20(3): 4896-4911. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2023227
Breast cancer occurs in the epithelial tissue of the gland, so the accuracy of gland segmentation is crucial to the physician's diagnosis. An innovative technique for breast mammography image gland segmentation is put forth in this paper. In the first step, the algorithm designed the gland segmentation evaluation function. Then a new mutation strategy is established, and the adaptive controlled variables are used to balance the ability of improved differential evolution (IDE) in terms of investigation and convergence. To evaluate its performance, The proposed method is validated on a number of benchmark breast images, including four types of glands from the Quanzhou First Hospital, Fujian, China. Furthermore, the proposed algorithm is been systematically compared to five state-of-the-art algorithms. From the average MSSIM and boxplot, the evidence suggests that the mutation strategy may be effective in searching the topography of the segmented gland problem. The experiment results demonstrated that the proposed method has the best gland segmentation results compared to other algorithms.
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