The invention discloses a method for automatically identifying a
breast tumor area based on an
ultrasound image. The method comprises the following steps of acquiring the
ultrasound image of the breast, and preprocessing the
ultrasound image; segmenting the
ultrasound image subjected to preprocessing through an
image segmentation method to obtain a plurality of segmented subareas; extracting a
grey level histogram, texture features, gradient features and morphological features of the
ultrasound image, and combining the
grey level histogram, the texture features, the gradient features and the morphological features of the
ultrasound image with two-dimensional position information to obtain high-dimensionality feature vectors; selecting the most effective feature subset of the high-dimensionality feature vectors through feature ordering based on
biclustering and a
selection method; performing learning classification on the selected most effective feature subset through a classifier, and then automatically identifying the
breast tumor area. By means of the method, the
breast tumor area can be identified automatically from segment results of the breast tumor ultrasound image, therefore,
automation performance of computer-
aided diagnosis is improved, manual operation of clinical doctors is reduced, and subjective influence of clinical doctors is reduced.