Abstract: Aiming at the breast ultrasound image, a method of breast mass recognition based on  texture feature extraction is proposed, which is helpful to use computer-aided identification method to judge whether breast mass is cancerous or not, and assist radiologists to predict the nature of images. Firstly, the max-response filter is applied to the breast ultrasound image to remove the main noise interference while ensuring the integrity of a certain edge tissue structure. On this basis, the first-order and second-order texture features of breast images are extracted, and then the features are identified and classified by artificial neural network. The accuracy of the method is verified on the real data set obtained from a hospital and the proposed method is compared with other methods from three aspects: preprocessing, feature extraction and classification. The results show that the proposed method improves the recognition rate of breast masses on the basis of reducing the complexity of the algorithm.

Key words: breast mass, ultrasound image, image texture features, filter processing, artificial neural network, computer aided detection