“…Morphological features represent local characteristics of the tumor lesion and are used to quantitate malignancy using shape, contour,or boundary characteristics. [1][2][3]5,11,18 Textural features explain internal echo patterns and the composition of the encompassing tissues and are selected from the original or preprocessed images. [1][2][3]5,6,11 For feature extraction, Genetic algorithm, 19 mutual information, 11 statistical tests, 20 Relief and FOCUS techniques 21 have been utilized for breast ultrasound images.…”