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This paper proposes a novel texture descriptor, namely, rotation invariant uniform local quinary patterns (RIU4-LQP), to describe texture patterns in mammograms and to improve the robustness of image features. In conventional processing schemes, image features are obtained by computing histograms from texture patterns. However, such processes ignore very important spatial information related to the texture features. This study designs a new feature vector, namely, K-spectrum, by using Baddeley\u2019s K-inhom function to characterise the spatial distribution information of feature point sets. Texture features extracted by RIU4-LQP and K-spectrum are utilised to classify mammograms into BI-RADS density categories. Three feature selection methods are employed to optimise the feature set. In our experiment, two mammogram datasets, INbreast and MIAS, are used to test the proposed methods, and comparative analyses and statistical tests between different schemes are conducted. Experimental results show that our proposed method outperforms other approaches described in the literature, with the best classification accuracy of 92.76% (INbreast) and 86.96% (MIAS).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22072672","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,30]],"date-time":"2022-03-30T21:28:39Z","timestamp":1648675719000},"page":"2672","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Spatial Distribution Analysis of Novel Texture Feature Descriptors for Accurate Breast Density Classification"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7747-0180","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Haipeng","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4578-1931","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ramakrishnan","family":"Mukundan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand"}]},{"given":"Shelley","family":"Boyd","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Canterbury Breastcare, St. George\u2019s Medical Centre, Christchurch 8014, New Zealand"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,30]]},"reference":[{"unstructured":"Breast Cancer, U.S. (2020, May 20). 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