may come down with increasing number of such cases

920 873 may come down with increasing number of such cases. of in Tables 4 and 5, the FPs/I is reduced to a satisfactory extent. 921 874 However, we are trying to modify our earlier algorithm to More number of possible pairs in the proposed method are the 922 875 correctly delineate the border and identify the nipple position bottleneck in the overall performance. Even though the lesion 923 876 correctly especially with difficult cases in our future work. on one view is not paired with any other lesion on other view, 924 877 Consistent and accurate positioning of the breast during the single view characterization can yield the classification 925 878 mammography is essential for our method to acquire accurate results as shown in Fig. 4. 926 879 distance metrics for correspondence score. Incorrect and The final stage in the proposed work for improving lesion 927 880 inconsistent positioning may lead to lower accuracy that detection is the fusion of two view correspondence scores 928 881 was obtained on the dataset in this 4μ8C study. with the one-view abnormality score. The fusion process is 929 882 The authors in Refs. [9,46] showed that there is a high simple and computationally simpler than approaches de- 930 883 correlation between distances from the nipple to the centroid scribed in the literature. The metric shown in terms of Kappa 931 884 of lesions on CC and MLO views. The proposed work has indicates the slight correlation between observed and 932 885 leveraged this idea to devise a mechanism to choose lesion- expected accuracy which can be improved further. However, 933 886 based parameters as specified through Eqs. (5)–(7) in Section better features can be selected to improve the correspondence 934 887 4.3.1 to determine the width of annular region which is score and subsequently the accuracy in matching the lesion 935 888 different for every individual lesion on the either views. The pairs. 936
889 results shown in Tables 4 and 5 prove that our selection of
890 annular region is appropriate and works well on mammo- 7. Conclusion 937
891 grams of larger as well as smaller breast area. It is observed
892 that in few cases the correspondence score of TP–FP pair is
893 better than that of TP–TP pair. We are investigating the reasons The significantly vital concurrent analysis for estimating 938
894 behind such exceptional cases. likelihood of cancer of the abnormal lesions on the ipsilateral 939
895 The purpose of minimizing the false pairs of lesions using views of the mammogram is described in this article. The 940
896 arc-based method is served well by selecting an appropriate proposed approach is more realistic as Breakage and reunion closely mimics the 941
897 width of the annular region. The prediction of the radial radiologist's clinical practice of two views-based analysis of 942
898 distances of the lesion from nipple on CC and MLO views and breast anomalies. The preliminary results after fusion of single 943
899 the width of annular search region are determined statically in view features with two views information have demonstrated 944
900 Refs. [9,28] which are applicable only to the images in their a slight improvement in the case-based diagnostic accuracy 945
901 respective studies. In this regard, we have selected the width of and FPs/I close to the film-based scheme. The findings of 946
902 annular region dynamically based on the length of minor axis proposed two view scheme are significantly useful compared 947
903 of both lesions involved in the process. The success of this task