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The superiority of CEUS over conventional B-mode imaging in the ultrasound diagnosis of the breast lesions in clinical practice has been widely confirmed. On the other hand, there have been many proposals for computer-aided diagnosis of breast lesions on B-mode ultrasound images, but few for CEUS. We propose a semi-automatic classification method based on machine learning in CEUS of breast lesions.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The proposed method extracts spatial and temporal features from CEUS videos and breast tumors are classified as benign or malignant using linear support vector machines (SVM) with combination of selected optimal features. In the proposed method, tumor regions are extracted using the guidance information specified by the examiners, then morphological and texture features of tumor regions obtained from B-mode and CEUS images and TIC features obtained from CEUS video are extracted. Then, our method uses SVM classifiers to classify breast tumors as benign or malignant. During SVM training, many features are prepared, and useful features are selected. We name our proposed method \"Ceucia-Breast\" (Contrast Enhanced UltraSound Image Analysis for BREAST lesions).<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The experimental results on 119 subjects show that the area under the receiver operating curve, accuracy, precision, and recall are 0.893, 0.816, 0.841 and 0.920, respectively. The classification performance is improved by our method over conventional methods using only B-mode images. In addition, we confirm that the selected features are consistent with the CEUS guidelines for breast tumor diagnosis. Furthermore, we conduct an experiment on the operator dependency of specifying guidance information and find that the intra-operator and inter-operator kappa coefficients are 1.0 and 0.798, respectively.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The experimental results show a significant improvement in classification performance compared to conventional classification methods using only B-mode images. We also confirm that the selected features are related to the findings that are considered important in clinical practice. 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