BUSAT: A MATLAB Toolbox for Breast Ultrasound Image Analysis

This paper presents the Breast Ultrasound Analysis Toolbox (BUSAT) for MATLAB, which contains 62 functions to perform image preprocessing, lesion segmentation, feature extraction, and lesion classification. BUSAT is useful to codify programs for computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) purposes in reduced time; hence, to replicate several approaches proposed in literature is feasible. We provide the implementation of a CAD system to classify breast lesions into benign and malignant classes and an example to evaluate the classification performance. BUSAT could be downloaded from the following permanent link: http://www.tamps.cinvestav.mx/~wgomez/downloads.html .