Hough spectrum and geometric texture feature analysis

Traditionally, statistical and structural method are the two major approaches in texture description. However, there are also texture patterns of other natures, such as those of breast tissue on a mammogram which manifest a geometric feature. This paper proposes a new approach to measure geometric texture feature of an image on its Hough spectrum. The preliminary application of this texture descriptor to mammographic image processing shows its potential in the detection of spiculated masses