Optimized textural features for mass classification in digital mammography using a weighted average gravitational search algorithm

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Vol. 12, No. 5, October 2022, pp. 5001~5013
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Optimized textural features for mass classification in digital
mammography using a weighted average gravitational search
algorithm
Oludare Yinka Ogundepo1
, Isaac Ozovehe Avazi Omeiza2
, Jonathan Ponmile Oguntoye3
1
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, College of Technology, Federal University of Petroleum Resources,
Effurun, Nigeria
2
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
3
Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology,
Ogbomoso, Nigeria
Article Info ABSTRACT
Article history:
Received Apr 18, 2021
Revised Feb 3, 2022
Accepted Apr 6, 2022
Early detection of breast cancer cells can be predicted through a precise
feature extraction technique that can produce efficient features. The
application of Gabor filters, gray level co-occurrence matrices (GLCM) and
other textural feature extraction techniques have proven to achieve
promising results but were often characterized by a high false-positive rate
(FPR) and false-negative rate (FNR) with high computational complexities.
This study optimized textural features for mass classification in digital
mammography using the weighted average gravitational search algorithm
(WA-GSA). The Gabor and GLCM features were fused and optimized using
WA-GSA to overcome the weakness of the textural feature techniques. With
support vector machine (SVM) used as the classifier, the proposed algorithm
was compared with commonly applied techniques. Experimental results
show that the SVM with WA-GSA features achieved FPR, FNR and
accuracy of 1.60%, 9.68% and 95.71% at 271.83 s, respectively. Meanwhile,
SVM with Gabor features achieved FPR, FNR and accuracy of 3.21%,
12.90% and 93.57% at 2351.29 s, respectively, while SVM with GLCM
features achieved FPR, FNR and accuracy of 4.28%, 18.28% and 91.07% at
384.54 s, respectively. The obtained results show the prevalence of the
proposed algorithm, WA-GSA, in the classification of breast cancer tumor
detection.
Keywords:
Breast cancer
Digital mammography
Gabor filter
Gravitational search algorithm
Gray level co-occurrence
matrices
Support vector machine
Texture features
This is an open access article under the CC BY-SA license.
Corresponding Author:
Oludare Yinka Ogundepo
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, College of Technology, Federal University of
Petroleum Resources
Effurun, Delta State, Nigeria
Email: oludare.ogundepo@fupre.edu.ng
1. INTRODUCTION
Digital mammography is a powerful technique that helps in the diagnosis of breast cancers at
premature stages [1]. The early detection of breast cancer helps prevent the growth to a complicated stage
which could lead to the need for surgeries. This forestalls unnecessary biopsies and radiation therapies by
proper screening and abnormality detection; thus, increases the likelihood of patient’s survival [2], [3]. The
malignancy can be found in patients in the presence of masses and microcalcifications in the breast region.
The successful analysis of breast cancer relies on features extracted from the cancer suspicious areas and
classification of the features using a classifier or the combinations of classifiers [4], [5]. The enrichment and

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extraction of regions of interest (ROI) in digital images is the foremost challenging task in the computerized
diagnosis of breast cancer using mammographic images. This is due to low contrast results which are
sometimes complicated to handle two major concerns namely false-positives and false-negatives [6]. The
false-positive results could lead to the surgeries of benign (noncancerous) conditions. Meanwhile, the
false-negative results could allow the early-stage disease to develop to a more complicated stage with fewer
rates of survival.
Computer-aided detection and diagnosis (CAD) can be utilized on the digital images to assist
radiologists analyze the overall images, and emphasize the likely areas of concern for further analysis [7].
The two significant phases of a CAD system for mass detection are the detection of suspicious ROI in
mammogram images and the classification of these ROI into the masses (malignant) or normal cases. One of
the critical stages in the classification of ROI is feature extraction, which absolutely affects the classification
rate [2]. An assortment of computer-aided methods has recently been examined and it produced different
levels of success for the analysis of the digital mammograms [8].
Gravitational search algorithm (GSA) is an efficient optimization algorithm created based on mass
interactions and the law of gravity [9]. The GSA uses the Newtonian gravity’s theory, and its explorer agents
are the set of masses. In GSA, there is a system of masses such that every mass in the system is matched with
the location of other masses using the gravitational force. This force is a way of passing information between
different masses [10].
Gabor filter is a method which has been largely used for a textural description in different imaging
applications [3]. Gabor filters decompose an image into different scales and orientations and analyze texture
patterns efficiently. Mammograms have high texture, and Gabor filters are suitable for the texture analysis of
mammograms as well [11].
The gray level co-occurrence matrices (GLCM) is a second-order statistical method that calculates
the frequency of pixel pairs having the same grey-levels in an image and applies additional knowledge
obtained using spatial pixel relations [12]–[15]. GLCM has been largely used for image texture analysis [16].
It was applied as a feature extraction technique to compute the textural measure. The co-occurrence matrix
reveals the grey level spatial dependency along with different angular relationships, horizontal, vertical and
two diagonal directions on an image. The co-occurrence matrix embeds the distribution of grayscale
transitions using edge information. Since most of the information required for computing threshold values are
embedded in GLCM, it has emerged as a basic yet efficient technique [17].
Khan et al. [18] proposed improved Gabor features for mass classification in mammography. The
study introduced optimization of Gabor filter banks based on an increasing clustering algorithm and particle
swarm optimization (PSO). SVM with Gaussian kernel as a fitness function for PSO was utilized and
assessed on 1024 ROI extracted from a digital database for screening mammography (DDSM) using four
performance measures (i.e., accuracy, area under receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, sensitivity,
and specificity). The outcomes showed that the proposed technique improves performance and diminishes the
computational cost. Shirazi and Rashedi [10] projected a feature weighting for cancer tumor detection in
mammography images using a GSA with GLCM as the feature extraction technique. The GSA was used as a
tool for the optimization of the features weighting (FW) and tuning the classifier (k-NN). The weighted
features and the tuned k-NN classifier were utilized for discovering tumors. The obtained results showed a
good efficiency of GSA-based FW-kNN classification for breast cancer tumor detection. Hussain et al. [19]
presented a comparison of different Gabor features for mass classification in mammography. The study
explored the performance of six different Gabor feature extraction approaches for mass classification
problems. The technique employed Gabor filter banks for extracting multiscale and multi-orientation texture
features which represent structural characteristics of masses and normal dense tissues in mammograms. The
feature extraction approaches were evaluated over the ROI extracted from MIA’S database. The support
vector machine (SVM) was used to effectively classify the generated unbalanced datasets. The experimental
outcome revealed that the proposed method was able to reduce the false positives and false negatives.
However, it is computationally expensive and time-consuming.
Reliable CAD systems are developed for robust feature extraction techniques for mass detection. To
improve the efficiency and accuracy of a CAD system, it is crucial to extract the most discriminative features
efficiently [2]. All the aforementioned textural feature extraction techniques developed for efficient mass
detection in early breast cancer CAD diagnosis are quite robust. However, they are restricted by high
tendency rate of false positive and false negative diagnosis. Also, there are mostly associated with high
computational complexities. To address these limitations, this study aims to develop a hybrid technique for
textural feature extraction in breast cancer diagnosis. The specific objectives are: i) to fuse the Gabor and
GLCM textural feature extraction technique using the weighted average gravitational search algorithm
(WA-GSA) technique, ii) to apply the developed hybrid technique to some selected mammographic images
for training and testing, and iii) to compare the performance of the new hybrid technique with the existing

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ones based on accuracy, false-positive rate, false-negative rate, and computational time. Next, section 2
showcases the detailed research method while the results are given in section 3. Section 4 concludes the study
and contains the recommendation for further studies.
2. RESEARCH METHOD
Digital mammographic images including normal, benign, and cancerous cases were first acquired.
Then, the images were pre-processed to obtain the desired image quality for further processing. This is
followed by obtaining the ROI boundaries, edges and curves of the pre-processed images and the result are
subsequently segmented. Gabor filter texture segmentation and extraction is performed before classification.
The features of the obtained dataset are extracted based on the developed algorithm before being classified
for training and testing.
2.1. Image acquisition
Digital mammographic images were acquired from the image retrieval in medical applications
(IRMA) database of the Aachen University of Technology Germany. This dataset provides 9,852
radiographs, which include normal, benign, and cancerous cases. Each study includes two images of each
breast, acquired in craniocaudal (CC) and medio-lateral (ML) views that have been scanned from the
film-based sources by four different scanners with a resolution between 50 and 42. For this study, seven
hundred (700) digital mammographic images were selected. Four hundred and twenty (420) of the acquired
images were used for training while two hundred and eighty (280) of the images were used for the testing.
The test dataset comprises 93 normal mammogram images and 187 abnormal mammogram images: out of
which 92 were benign mammogram images and 95 cancerous mammogram images.
2.2. Pre-processing
A series of pre-processing steps were applied to improve the image quality for further processing.
The acquired images were passed unto different pre-processing techniques and image resizing was
performed. Thereafter, the removal of the black and white border, breast boundary detection, artefacts
elimination (labels) and background, removal of the pectoral muscle and contrast adjustment. The
pre-processing techniques were Otsu’s method for thresholding, Moore’s Algorithm for tracing boundary on
threshold images, and difference of Gaussians (DOG) as contrast enhancement technique. The outputs at
different stages of the pre-processing stages using DOG is depicts in Figure 1, where Figure 1(a) is the
original image, Figure 1(b) is black and white removal, Figure 1(c) is the flipped image, Figure 1(d) is the
traced boundary, Figure 1(e) is the pectoral muscle removal, Figure 1(f) is the enhanced image CLAHE,
Figure 1(g) is the enhanced image DOG, Figure 1(h) is the Gaussian blur image, Figure 1(i) ROI_image,
Figure 1(j) is the Shannon entropy image, and Figure 1(k) is the morphological filtering image.The
methodologies associated with the stages are discussed elsewhere [20].
2.3. Segmentation
The ROI boundaries, edges and curves of the pre-processed images were located and segmented
using Gaussian blurring, Otsu’s thresholding, and automatic cropping technique. Fuzzy C-means clustering
was applied to the ROI and the evaluations of the textual image were done using a GLCM. Shannon’s
Entropy-based thresholding was performed on the GLCM texture and morphological filtering were finally
applied. The output produced the excepted segmented image. Gabor filter was also used for the segmentation
process in the case of the Gabor filter feature extraction. The steps involved in fuzzy C-means image
segmentation are highlighted elsewhere [21] and are:
− Initialize the cluster centers 𝑐𝑖 and set 𝑡 = 0.
− Initialize the fuzzy partition memberships functions 𝜇𝑖𝑗 according to (1).
𝜇𝑖𝑗 = (∑ (
‖𝑥𝑗−𝑐𝑖‖
(‖𝑥𝑗−𝑐𝑚‖)
2
(𝑘−1)
⁄
)
𝐶
𝑚=1 )
−1
(1)
− Let 𝑡 = 𝑡 + 1 and compute new cluster centres 𝑐𝑖 using (2).
𝑐𝑖 =
∑ 𝜇𝑖𝑗
𝑘
𝑁
𝑗=1 𝑥𝑗
∑ 𝜇𝑖𝑗
𝑘
𝑁
𝑗=1
(2)
− Repeat steps 2 to 3 until convergence.

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(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)
(f) (g) (h) (i) (j) (k)
Figure 1. Summary of the pre-processing stage (a) original image, (b) black and white removal,
(c) flipped image, (d) traced boundary, (e) pectoral muscle removal, (f) enhanced image CLAHE,
(g) enhanced image DOG, (h) Gaussian blur image, (i) ROI_image, (j) Shannon entropy image, and
(k) morphological filtering image
2.4. Gabor filter texture segmentation and extraction
The texture is considered to be the most important property for masses representation since it is
useful for characterizing micro patterns like edges, lines, and spots. Gabor filter has been used with different
scales and orientations to extract texture-based features [19], [22]. The filters have been applied in the
various domains of computer science such as face recognition, gesture recognition, and optical character
recognition. Gabor is highly efficient in the CAD system as mammogram contains micropattern which has a
lot of texture [3]. A 2-D Gabor filter defined as a Gaussian function modulated by an oriented complex
sinusoidal wave can be described as given in (3) [23]:
𝑔(𝑥, 𝑦) =
1
2𝜋𝜎𝑥𝜎𝑦
𝑒[−1 2
⁄ ((𝑥2 𝜌𝑥
2
⁄ )+(𝑦
̅2 𝜎𝑦
2
⁄ ))]
𝑒(2𝜋𝑗𝑤𝑥̅)
(3)
where 𝑥̅ and 𝑦
̅ are expressed as given in (4) and (5)
𝑥̅ = 𝑥𝑐𝑜𝑠𝜃 + 𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑛𝜃 (4)
𝑦
̅ = 𝑥𝑠𝑖𝑛𝜃 + 𝑦𝑐𝑜𝑠𝜃 (5)
𝜎𝑥 and 𝜎𝑦 are the scaling parameters (i.e., they define the neighbourhood of a pixel where the weighted
summation takes place), W is the central frequency of the complex sinusoid and 𝜃 ∈ [0, 𝜋] is the orientation
of the normal to the parallel stripes of the Gabor function.
Gabor filter was used to segment the mammogram dataset before feature extraction was carried out.
The segmentation of the images using the Gabor filter is portrayed in Figure 2. The input image 𝑖(𝑥, 𝑦) was
expected to be composed of two textures.
Figure 2. Segmentation using Gabor filter

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The image was first passed through a Gabor pre-filter with impulse response ℎ(𝑥, 𝑦). The Gabor
function ℎ(𝑥, 𝑦) (see (6)) is a complex sinusoid centred at a frequency (U, V) and modulated by a Gaussian
envelope 𝑔(𝑥, 𝑦) (in (7)). The spatial extent of the Gaussian envelope is determined by the parameter 𝜎𝑔.
ℎ(𝑥, 𝑦) = 𝑔(𝑥, 𝑦)𝑒𝑥𝑝[−𝑗2𝜋(𝑈𝑥 + 𝑉𝑦)] (6)
and
𝑔(𝑥, 𝑦) =
1
2𝜋𝜎𝑔
2 exp [−
(𝑥2+𝑦2)
2𝜋𝜎𝑔
2 ] (7)
Further, the 2D Fourier transform of ℎ(𝑥, 𝑦) is
𝐻(𝑢, 𝑣) = 𝐺(𝑢 − 𝑈, 𝑣 − 𝑉) (8)
where
𝐺(𝑢, 𝑣) = exp[−2𝜋2
𝜎𝑔
2(𝑢2
+ 𝑣2)] (9)
is the Fourier transform of 𝑔(𝑥, 𝑦). The parameters (𝑈, 𝑉, 𝜎𝑔) determine ℎ(𝑥, 𝑦). From (7) and (8), the
Gabor function is basically a bandpass filter centered around frequency (U, V), with bandwidth determined
by 𝜎𝑔. It was assumed for simplicity, that the Gaussian envelope 𝑔(𝑥, 𝑦) is an asymmetrical function. The
output of the pre-filter stage 𝑖ℎ(𝑥, 𝑦) is the convolution of the input image with the filter response
𝑖ℎ(𝑥, 𝑦) = ℎ(𝑥, 𝑦) ∗ 𝑖(𝑥, 𝑦) (10)
The magnitude of the first-stage output is computed in the second stage as expressed in (11):
𝑚(𝑥, 𝑦) = |𝑖ℎ(𝑥, 𝑦)| = |ℎ(𝑥, 𝑦) ∗ 𝑖(𝑥, 𝑦)| (11)
A low-pass Gaussian post-filter 𝑔𝑝(𝑥, 𝑦) is applied to pre-filter output 𝑚(𝑥, 𝑦) yielding the post-filtered
image
𝑚𝑝(𝑥, 𝑦) = 𝑚(𝑥, 𝑦) ∗ 𝑔𝑝(𝑥, 𝑦) (12)
where
𝑔𝑝(𝑥, 𝑦) =
1
2𝜋𝜎𝑝
2 exp [−
(𝑥2+𝑦2)
2𝜋𝜎𝑝
2 ] (13)
Generally, 𝑖ℎ(𝑥, 𝑦) is referred to as the pre-filtered image, 𝑚(𝑥, 𝑦) as the pre-filtered output, and 𝑚𝑝(𝑥, 𝑦),
the post-filtered output. Finally, the segmented image 𝑖𝑠(𝑥, 𝑦) from the Gaussian-post-filter output 𝑚𝑝(𝑥, 𝑦)
was achieved by applying a threshold 𝜏 to 𝑚𝑝(𝑥, 𝑦); points above the threshold are assigned to one texture,
and points below to the other.
The segmented image was extracted. The Gabor filter-based technique was used to extract the
textural features of the mammography images. Gabor filters are orientation and frequency selective filters,
relying upon different parameters, specifically, a frequency f and an orientation . Forty different Gabor
filters (5 frequency x 8 orientation) were used in this study. The segmented ROI were each partitioned into
sub-windows then Gabor filter bank was applied on each window separately. The moments were computed
(mean, standard deviation, skewness) based features from the magnitude of Gabor filter bank responses to
obtain a one thousand and eighty (1080) texture feature set.
2.5. GLCM algorithm for feature extraction
In this study, fourteen textural features namely angular second moment (energy), correlation,
contrast, entropy, homogeneity, inverse difference moment, the sum of entropy, sum variance, the sum of
average, different average, difference variance, different entropy, information measures correlation 1 and
information measures correlation 2 were employed. The GLCM was computed for the four directions around
the pixel of interest. The method used an 8x8 sliding window to allow the co-occurrence calculation and
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four directions (0°, 45°, 90° and 135°) and distance of one (d=1). The fourteen texture features were
computed from the GLCM to obtain 56 textures feature set (4 directions x 1 distance x 14 texture features)
for each sliding window.
2.6. Normalization of features
The textural features of the mammography images extracted by the respective GLCM and Gabor
were normalized using the min-max technique by the aid of (14) and (15):
𝑓
𝑔𝑙𝑐𝑚 =
𝑓′𝑔𝑙𝑐𝑚−min(𝑓′𝑔𝑙𝑐𝑚)
max(𝑓′𝑔𝑙𝑐𝑚)−min(𝑓′𝑔𝑙𝑐𝑚)
(14)
𝑓
𝑔𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟 =
𝑓′𝑔𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟−min(𝑓′𝑔𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟)
max(𝑓′𝑔𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟)−min(𝑓′𝑔𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟)
(15)
where 𝑓′𝑔𝑙𝑐𝑚 and 𝑓′𝑔𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟 are the features obtained using GLCM and Gabor respectively, while 𝑓
𝑔𝑙𝑐𝑚 and
𝑓
𝑔𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟 are the normalized features.
2.7. Optimal feature selection
The general formulation of an optimal feature selection problem used in this study are:
min
𝐾𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡,𝐹𝑓
𝑑
∅(𝑦(𝐹𝑓
𝑑
)) (16)
Subject to:
0 ≤ ℎ(𝑥(𝑡), 𝑧(𝑡), 𝑤(𝑡), 𝐾𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡, 𝐹𝑑) ≤ 1 (17)
𝐹𝑑
∈ 𝐹𝑒
0 < 𝑤(𝑡) < 1
𝑤(𝑡) = {
𝑚𝑗(𝑡) 𝑖𝑓 𝑚𝑗(𝑡) ≥ 𝑤(𝑡)
𝑤(𝑡) 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑚𝑗(𝑡) < 𝑤(𝑡)
(18)
where 𝑥(𝑡) ∈ 𝑅𝑛
and 𝑧(𝑡) ∈ 𝑅𝑛
are the vectors of the GLCM and Gabor state variables, respectively. The
entire state vector is denoted as 𝑦 = [𝑥 𝑧], where 𝑥 is the set of feature vector of GLCM, z is the set of
feature vector of Gabor filter bands. The problem is defined on the feature’s horizon 𝐹𝑒 = [𝐹𝑜
𝑑
𝐹𝑓
𝑑
].
The feature-dependent control variables 𝐾𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 ∈ 𝑅𝑛
and possibly the final feature 𝐹𝑓
𝑑
are decision
variables for optimization. The goal of the optimization is to find the optimal set of decision variables to
minimize the objective function ∅, that is, ∅(𝑦(𝐹𝑓
𝑑
)). The search space for finding the optimum is restricted
by constraints, which describe, appropriate weight and feature parameter requirements to be fulfilled during
fusion at feature selection level. The study considered weight constraint 𝑤(𝑡) and feature constraint ℎ(…).
2.8. Weighted average gravitational search algorithm
WA-GSA was used to fuse the normalized features. This was achieved by modifying the fitness
function of the GSA using (19):
𝑓𝑖𝑡𝑗(𝑡) = ∑ 𝑤(𝑡)𝑓𝑔𝑙𝑐𝑚𝑗
(𝑡) + (1 − 𝑤(𝑡))𝑓
𝑔𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑗
𝑁
𝑗=1 (𝑡) (19)
where 𝜔(𝑡) is the weight of the GLCM features and (1 − 𝜔(𝑡)) is the weight of the Gabor features.
Feature level fusion can be done either at the feature extraction stage or at the feature selection
stage. The weighted average method has been used previously as fusion technique and was able to suppress
noises existing in the source feature images. At the same time, it also suppresses the salient features that
should be preserved for the fused feature image, thereby, producing a low contrast result. In other to reduce
the challenge of the weighted average and to have a balanced feature fusion, WA-GSA was developed and
employed in this study.
WA-GSA fusion technique was used at the feature selection phase which dealt with the selection
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to reduce the computational burden of feature concatenation by choosing optimal subsets of features from the
two textural features. WA-GSA technique used the following parameters for fusing GLCM features and
Gabor features: a maximum iteration of 100, number of agents (N) as the maximum size of the feature vector.
The algorithmic steps for the WA-GSA technique used to achieve the fusion are highlighted:
− Step 1: Set 𝑓
𝑔𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟=Gabor features and 𝑓
𝑔𝑙𝑐𝑚=GLCM features
− Step 2: Agents initialization: The positions of the N number of agents are initialized randomly.
𝑋𝑖 = (𝑥𝑖
1
, . . . , 𝑥𝑖
𝑑
, . . . , 𝑥𝑖
𝑛
) 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑖 = 1, 2, . . . , 𝑁 (20)
𝑤(𝑡) = 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑 0 < 𝑤(𝑡)<1
𝑥𝑖
𝑑
represents the positions of the 𝑖𝑡ℎ
agent in the 𝑑𝑡ℎ
dimension, while 𝑛 is the space dimension. 𝑤(𝑡)
represent the initial weight.
− Step 3: Fitness evolution and best fitness computation. The fitness evolution is performed by evaluating
the best and worst fitness for all agents at each iteration. For minimization problems, the best and worst
finesses are expressed as given in (21):
𝑓𝑖𝑡𝑗(𝑡) = ∑ 𝑤(𝑡)𝑓𝑔𝑙𝑐𝑚𝑗
(𝑡) + (1 − 𝑤(𝑡))𝑓
𝑔𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑗
𝑁
𝑗=1 (𝑡) (21)
Subject to
𝑤(𝑡) = {
𝑚𝑗(𝑡) 𝑖𝑓 𝑚𝑗(𝑡) ≥ 𝑤(𝑡)
𝑤(𝑡) 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑚𝑗(𝑡) < 𝑤(𝑡)
(22)
where 𝑤(𝑡) is the weight set for 𝑓
𝑔𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟 (Gabor features extracted from mammography image) and
1 − 𝑤(𝑡) is the weight set for 𝑓
𝑔𝑙𝑐𝑚 (Glcm features extracted from mammography image).
𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡(𝑡) = 𝑚𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑖𝑡𝑗(𝑡) 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑡(𝑡) = 𝑚𝑎𝑥 𝑓𝑖𝑡𝑗(𝑡) 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑗 𝜖 1 , . . . , 𝑁
For maximization problems best and worst fitness are:
𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡(𝑡) = 𝑚𝑎𝑥 𝑓𝑖𝑡𝑗(𝑡) 𝑗 𝜖 1 , . . . , 𝑁 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑡(𝑡) = 𝑚𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑖𝑡𝑗(𝑡) 𝑗 𝜖 1 , . . . , 𝑁
𝑓𝑖𝑡𝑗(𝑡) represents the fitness value of the 𝑖𝑡ℎ
agent at iteration 𝑡 , 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡(𝑡) and 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑡(𝑡) represents the best
and worst fitness at iteration t.
− Step 4: Gravitational constant (G) computation. The gravitational constant G(t) is computed using (23).
𝐺(𝑡) = 𝐺0𝑒(−𝛼𝑡/𝑇) (ℎ) (23)
𝐺0 and 𝛼 are initialized at the beginning and was reduced with time to control the search accuracy. T is the
total number of iterations.
− Step 5: Calculation of the masses of the agents. Gravitational and inertia masses for each agent are
calculated at iteration t. Masses in GSA depend upon the fitness value of agents.
𝑀𝑎𝑗 = 𝑀𝑝𝑖 = 𝑀𝑖𝑖 = 𝑀𝑖 𝑖 = 1, 2, . . . , 𝑁
𝑚𝑖(𝑡) =
𝑓𝑖𝑡𝑖−𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑡(𝑡)
𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡(𝑡)−𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑡(𝑡)
𝑀𝑖 =
𝑚𝑖(𝑡)
∑ 𝑚𝑗(𝑡)
𝑁
𝑗=1
(24)
Where 𝑀𝑖𝑖 and 𝑀𝑝𝑖 are inertia and passive gravitational masses of 𝑖𝑡ℎ
agent respectively and 𝑀𝑎𝑗 is the active
gravitational mass of 𝑗𝑡ℎ
agent. 𝑓𝑖𝑡𝑖 is the fitness value of 𝑖𝑡ℎ
agent.
− Step 6: Calculation of the agent’s accelerations: The acceleration of the agents are calculated using (25).
𝑎𝑖
𝑑(𝑡) =
𝐹𝑖
𝑑(𝑡)
𝑀𝑖𝑖(𝑡)
(25)
𝐹𝑖
𝑑(𝑡) is the total force acting on 𝑖𝑡ℎ
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𝐹𝑖
𝑑(𝑡) = ∑ 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑗𝐹𝑖𝑗
𝑑(𝑡)
𝑗∈𝐾𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡,𝑗≠1 (26)
𝐾𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 is the set of first 𝐾 agents with the best fitness value and biggest mass. 𝐾𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 will reduce in each
iteration and at the end only one agent applying force to the other agents. Force on 𝑖𝑡ℎ
agent by 𝑑𝑡ℎ
agent
mass during iteration 𝑡 is computed using the (27).
𝐹𝑖𝑗
𝑑(𝑡) = 𝐺(𝑡). (
𝑀𝑝𝑖(𝑡)𝑥𝑀𝑎𝑗(𝑡)
𝑅𝑖𝑗(𝑡)
+ 𝜀) . (𝑥𝑗
𝑑(𝑡) − 𝑥𝑖
𝑑(𝑡)) (27)
𝑅𝑖𝑗(𝑡) is the Euclidian distance between two agents 𝑖 and 𝑗 at iteration 𝑡. 𝐺(𝑡) is the gravitational constant
calculated using (9) while 𝜀 is a small constant.
− Step 7: Velocity and positions of agents: The velocity update equation for the agents is defined as given
in (28).
𝑣𝑖
𝑑(𝑡 + 1) = 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖 × 𝑣𝑖
𝑑(𝑡) + 𝑎𝑖
𝑑(𝑡) (28)
𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑 is random variable in interval [0,1]. 𝑣𝑖
𝑑(𝑡) and 𝑣𝑖
𝑑(𝑡 + 1) are the velocity of 𝑖𝑡ℎ
individual during the
iteration 𝑡 and 𝑡 + 1, respectively. The position update equation for individuals is defined as (29).
𝑥𝑖
𝑑(𝑡 + 1) = 𝑥𝑖
𝑑(𝑡) + 𝑣𝑖
𝑑(𝑡 + 1) (29)
𝑥𝑖
𝑑(𝑡) and 𝑥𝑖
𝑑(𝑡 + 1) are the position of 𝑖𝑡ℎ
individual during the iteration 𝑡 and 𝑡 + 1, respectively. The
velocity of individuals is updated during each iteration. Due to changes in velocity, every individual updates
his position.
− Step 8: Repeat steps 2 to 8. Steps 2 to 8 are repeated until the iterations reach their maximum limit. The
best fitness value at the final iteration is computed as the global fitness while the position of the
corresponding agent at specified dimensions is computed as the global solution of that particular problem
which resulted in the feature selected, 𝐹𝑖𝑗
𝑑(𝑡).
𝑓
𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑(𝑡) = 𝐹𝑖𝑗
𝑑(𝑡) (30)
Where 𝑓
𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑(𝑡) is the fused features at feature selection level.
2.9. Support vector machine for classification
For the classification of features extracted by Gabor and GLCM techniques, SVM was used. In this
study, a binary classification problem, where textural features can be characterized as either cancer region or
normal was considered. The SVM finds an optimal hyper-plane that can separate the data belonging to
different classes with large margins in high dimensional space [24]. The margin is defined as the sum of
distances to the decision boundary (hyper-plane) from the nearest points (support vectors) of the two classes.
SVM formulation is based on statistical learning theory and has attractive generalization capabilities in linear
as well as non-linear decision problems. SVM takes classification decisions using (31) for optimal
hyperplane with maximum margin:
𝑔(𝑥) = 𝑤𝑇
𝑥 + 𝑤0 = 0 (31)
where 𝑥 is the feature descriptor and 𝑤 and 𝑤0 are unknown parameters, which are computed using training
samples {(𝑥𝑖, 𝑦𝑖)|1 ≤ 𝑖 ≤ 𝑁}{(xi, yi) where 𝑦𝑖 ∈ {+1, −1} is the class label; the computation involves the
solution of an optimization problem based on large margin theory [25]. Once the optimal hyper-plane has
been computed, the classification of a test sample 𝑥 is performed using (32):
𝑔(𝑥) = ∑ 𝜆𝑖𝑦𝑖𝑥𝑖
𝑇
𝑥
𝑁𝑠
𝑖=1 + 𝑤0 (32)
where 𝜆𝑖 are Lagrange multipliers and 𝑁𝑠 is the number of support vectors i.e., the training samples
corresponding to non-zero 𝜆𝑖. In case the data samples belonging to two classes are not linearly separable, the
Kernel trick is used. Using a kernel function, the function g(x) is expressed in (33):
𝑔(𝑥) = ∑ 𝜆𝑖𝑦𝑖𝐾(𝑥𝑖, 𝑥)
𝑁𝑠
𝑖=1 + 𝑤0 (33)

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where 𝐾(𝑥𝑖, 𝑥) is the kernel function that expresses the inner product of data. The samples in the higher
dimensional space user-defined parameter C is used to control the misclassified penalty or error in the new
formulation. The misclassification penalty or error is controlled with a user-defined parameter C
(regularization parameter, controlling the trade-off between the error of SVM and margin maximization), and
is tied with the kernel. There are several kernels available to be used e.g., linear, polynomial, sigmoid, and
radial basis function (RBF) [18]. In this study, the RBF kernel was used as given in (33) and C is set to 2000.
𝐾(𝑥𝑖, 𝑥) = exp(−𝛾‖𝑥𝑖 − 𝑥‖2) , 𝛾 > 0 (34)
The 𝛾 is the width of the kernel function. RBF kernel is now tied with two parameters 𝛾 and 𝐶. In summary,
Figure 3 summarizes the schematic of the methodology and the process flow.
Figure 3. Proposed flow for fused optimization
2.10. Performance evaluation
The overall performance of the techniques under study was evaluated based on recognition
accuracy, false positive rate (FPR), false negative rate (FNR) and computation time. A confusion matrix was
used to determine the values of the performance metrics. It contains “true positive (TP), false positive (FP),
false negative (FN) and true negative (TN)” as expressed in (35)-(37), respectively.
False positive rate (FPR) =
FP
TN+FP
(35)
False negative rate (FNR) =
FN
TP+FN
(36)
IRMA Train/
Test Dataset
Start
Crop brest
image and
apply Otsu s
method for
thresholding
Normalize
Mammogram
Contrast using
DOG
Remove
pectoral
muscle
Segment ROI Using
Fuzzy C means
Store in feature
Gallery
Apply GLCM to
extract features
Testing set
Training Set
Store in predicted
class as Abnormal
Predicted class
Presence of
mass?
Compare Predicted class and
actual class to get performance
indices (TP, TN,FP,FN) for
Normal/Benign/Malignant
Classification
No Yes
Fusion Using Weighted
Average GSA
Store in predicted
class as Normal
Classify Optimum
feature using SVM
Stop
Segment ROI and
extract features
Using Gabor filters
Normalize
extracted features
using Min-max
Normalize
extracted features
using Min-max
Mass
Cancerous?
Store in predicted
class as benign Store in predicted
class as malignant
Yes
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Accuracy =
TP+TN
TP+TN+FP+FN
(37)
3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The presented techniques were implemented using MATLAB R2018 on Windows 10 64-bit
operating system, Intel®Core™ i5-2540M CPU@2.60GHz central processing unit (CPU), 6 GB random
access memory (RAM) and 500 GB hard disk drive. The application was designed to run across different
platforms. A total number of 280 mammographic images were used to test the techniques. Three (3)
techniques were evaluated; This includes WA-GSA which combines Gabor and GLCM optimum features,
Gabor features and GLCM features. The result of the feature extractions was presented and evaluated for
each of the techniques. Table 1 presents the contingency table for SVM classification using WA-GSA, Gabor
and GLCM features. The mammogram dataset comprises of 280 images out of which 93 were Normal and
187 were abnormal (Benign/Malignant).
Table 1 summarizes the WA-GSA, Gabor and GLCM features as shown, the SVM techniques with
WA-GSA features properly classified 84 of the normal mammogram datasets as normal as against the
recorded 81 for Gabor and 76 for GLCM. WA-GSA algorithm equally performed better in terms of the
corresponding false negatives as recorded. Similarly, the classification of the abnormal dataset performed
better by correctly identifying 184 of the abnormal datasets as abnormal as against the 181 and 179 recorded
for Gabor and GLCM, respectively. Table 1 shows the superiority of WA-GSA over Gabor and GLCM in
terms of the confusion matrix.
Table 1. Contingency table for classification using WA-GSA, Gabor and GLCM features
Techniques WA-GSA Gabor GLCM
Predicted Class Predicted Class Predicted Class
Normal Abnormal Normal Abnormal Normal Abnormal
Actual Class
Normal (93) 84 (TP) 9 (FN) 81 (TP) 12 (FN) 76 (TP) 17 (FN)
Abnormal (187) 3 (FP) 184 (TN) 6 (FP) 181 (TN) 8 (FP) 179 (TN)
Weighted average gravitational search algorithm (WA-GSA); Gray level co-occurrence matrices (GLMC)
Furthermore, Table 2 depicts the performance of WA-GSA, Gabor and GLCM feature for validation
measures; FPR, FNR, accuracy, and computation time. The result obtained in Table 3 shows that at 𝛾 = 3
and C=1,000; the SVM technique achieved FPR, FNR and accuracy of 1.60%, 9.68% and 95.51% at 271.83
seconds, respectively, for WA-GSA features. Also, the SVM technique achieved FPR, FNR and accuracy of
3.21%, 12.90% and 93.57% at 2351.29 seconds, respectively, for Gabor features. Similarly, the SVM
technique achieved FPR, FNR and accuracy of 4.28%, 18.28% and 91.07% at 384.54 seconds, respectively,
for GLCM features.
Table 2. WA-GSA, Gabor and GLCM features for SVM classification
Technique FPR (%) FNR (%) Accuracy (%) Time (sec)
WA-GSA 1.60 9.68 95.71 271.83
GABOR 3.21 12.90 93.57 2351.29
GLCM 4.28 18.28 91.07 384.54
Table 2 presents the WA-GSA, Gabor, GLCM features for the SVM classification. As observed, the
WA-GSA features outperformed both the Gabor and GLCM features in terms of FPR, FNR, accuracy and
computation time. Additionally, validation measures namely FPR, FNR, accuracy and computation time
exhibit superiority of WA-GSA features over both Gabor and GLCM features. Figures 4 and 5 depict the
relationship between the computation time and gamma value as well as the accuracy and gamma values,
respectively.
Table 3 summarizes the statistical comparison between WA-GSA, Gabor and GLCM features.
Inferential statistical analysis using paired sampled t-test was done to analyze the result obtained for
WA-GSA and Gabor features, and for WA-GSA and GLCM features with accuracy, FPR, FNR and
computation time reveal that the test of significance of the aforementioned metrics evaluated at 95%
confidence level shows that there was a significant difference between WA-GSA features and Gabor features
as well as WA-GSA features and GLCM features at 𝑃<0.05. The t-test result validates the fact that the SVM
technique with WA-GSA features outperformed the SVM technique with both Gabor features and GLCM

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features in terms of accuracy, FPR, FNR and computation time in the classification of mass in digital
mammography.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
Gamma value
Computation
Time
(Seconds)
WA-GSA
GABOR
GLCM
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
88
90
92
94
96
98
Gamma value
Accuracy
(%)
WA-GSA
GABOR
GLCM
Figure 4. Variation of computation time versus
gamma value
Figure 5 Variation of accuracy versus gamma value
Table 3. Statistical comparison between WA-GSA, Gabor and GLCM feature on paired sampled t-test at 0.05
significance level
Techniques Measures Mean difference t value p-value
WA-GSA vs GLCM Accuracy 4.21 11.59 .000
FPR -3.00 -7.52 .002
FNR -6.66 -6.08 .004
C-Time -187.69 -4.13 .014
WA-GSA vs Gabor Accuracy 2.00 4.81 .009
FPR -1.50 -4.79 .009
FNR -3.01 -4.81 .009
C-Time -1849.11 -13.02 .000
*Computation time (C-Time); False negative rate (FNR); False positive rate (FPR)
The outcome of this study justifies the combination of optimized features of GLCM and Gabor
using WA-GSA technique. The combined textural features from WA-GSA technique achieved a more
discriminating and computationally efficient feature which reduces both high false positive and negative rates
associated with existing techniques in digital mammography. The result achieved in this study signifies that
the gamma value is an important parameter of SVM which has a great influence on the accuracy and
complexity of the classification models as supported by [26], [27].
The work in this study is in consonant with the work of Suresh et al. [28] that used hybrid features
involving GLCM to achieve improved performance in the classification of mass. Also, the findings in this
study corroborate the works of Fardin and Hassan [29] who combined Gabor and fast GLCM features to
achieve a more discriminating feature in the classification of very high-resolution remote sensing images.
This is also applicable in this study; the combination of the Gabor and GLCM features also achieved
improved discriminating features for the classification of masses in digital mammography. Furthermore,
based on the suggestion of Khan et al. [18] which stated that the reduction of features in the Gabor filter bank
is required to reduce time complexity in the classification of mammograms and the submission of Xing and
Jia [17] which stated that GLCM features also tend to have a high computationally complexity; the
application of WA-GSA technique was able to achieve a combine optimum features from Gabor and GLCM
features with reduced computational complexity. Hence, WA-GSA technique achieved improved
discriminating features which are less computationally expensive with reduced false positive and false
negative in the classification of masses in digital mammography.
4. CONCLUSION
In this study, the WA-GSA was used to fuse and optimize Gabor and GLCM features in the
classification of masses in digital mammography. The results achieved in this study showed that the proposed
hybrid feature extraction technique would reduce rate of false positive and false negative diagnosis by 1.61%
and 3.22% respectively when compared with Gabor technique and 2.68% and 8.60% respectively when
compared with GLCM technique. Additionally, the result showed that the proposed hybrid feature extraction

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technique would reduce the computational time by 2079.46 and 112.71 seconds when compared with Gabor
and GLCM technique respectively. It was evident that the WA-GSA was well matched to some other existing
conventional textural feature extraction method based on its performance. The WA-GSA features will
achieve a more accurate and computationally efficient CAD system which will help radiologists’
interpretation of mammograms for detection of lesions and classification. The results have demonstrated the
efficacy and accuracy of the proposed method of helping the radiologist on diagnosing breast cancer. It is
considered a sufficient method to extract features that can assist in avoiding tumor classification difficulties
and false-positive reduction. It should be considered in building a truly accurate and computationally
efficient CAD system which will help radiologists in accurate interpretation of mammograms for detection of
lesions and classification. Also, it could be adopted in clinical practices for better detection and classification
of breast cancer.
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BIOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORS
Oludare Yinka Ogundepo received the B.Tech. degree from the Department of
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ladoke Akintola University of
Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria, in 2009, the M.ENG. degree from the Federal University of
Technology Akure, Nigeria, in 2015. He is currently on his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and
Electronics engineering from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. His current research interests
include RF theory, signal processing, image processing, artificial intelligence, and computer
vision. He can be contacted at email: oludare.ogundepo@fupre.edu.ng.
Isaac Ozovehe Avazi Omeiza received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in
Electrical Engineering from University of Ilorin, Nigeria, in 1990 and 2000 respectively. He
further obtained a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the same university in 2007. His major
research interests include: image analysis, pattern recognition, computer vision, and digital
systems. He is presently a member of faculty in the Department of Electrical and Electronics
Engineering at University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. He can be contacted at email:
isaacavazi@unilorin.edu.ng.
Jonathan Ponmile Oguntoye received the B.Tech. and M.Tech. degree from the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology,
Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Nigeria, in 2010 and
2018 respectively. He is currently on his Ph.D. degree in computer engineering in Lautech,
Nigeria. His current research interests include image processing, biometrics, soft computing,
and information systems. He can be contacted at email: jpoguntoye@lautech.edu.ng.

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