Evaluation of image features and classification methods for Barrett's cancer detection using VLE imaging

Author(s):  
Sander Klomp ◽  
Fons van der Sommen ◽  
Anne-Fré Swager ◽  
Svitlana Zinger ◽  
Erik J. Schoon ◽  
...  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harith Al-Sahaf ◽  
A Song ◽  
K Neshatian ◽  
Mengjie Zhang

Image classification is a complex but important task especially in the areas of machine vision and image analysis such as remote sensing and face recognition. One of the challenges in image classification is finding an optimal set of features for a particular task because the choice of features has direct impact on the classification performance. However the goodness of a feature is highly problem dependent and often domain knowledge is required. To address these issues we introduce a Genetic Programming (GP) based image classification method, Two-Tier GP, which directly operates on raw pixels rather than features. The first tier in a classifier is for automatically defining features based on raw image input, while the second tier makes decision. Compared to conventional feature based image classification methods, Two-Tier GP achieved better accuracies on a range of different tasks. Furthermore by using the features defined by the first tier of these Two-Tier GP classifiers, conventional classification methods obtained higher accuracies than classifying on manually designed features. Analysis on evolved Two-Tier image classifiers shows that there are genuine features captured in the programs and the mechanism of achieving high accuracy can be revealed. The Two-Tier GP method has clear advantages in image classification, such as high accuracy, good interpretability and the removal of explicit feature extraction process. © 2012 IEEE.


Author(s):  
Mati ullah ◽  
Mehwish Bari ◽  
Adeel Ahmed ◽  
Sajid Naveed

From last decade, lung cancer become sign of fear among the people all over the world. As a result, many countries generate funds and give invitation to many scholars to overcome on this disease. Many researchers proposed many solutions and challenges of different phases of computer aided system to detect the lung cancer in early stages and give the facts about the lung cancer. CV (Computer Vision) play vital role to prevent lung cancer. Since image processing is necessary for computer vision, further in medical image processing there are many technical steps which are necessary to improve the performance of medical diagnostic machines. Without such steps programmer is unable to achieve accuracy given by another author using specific algorithm or technique. In this paper we highlight such steps which are used by many author in pre-processing, segmentation and classification methods of lung cancer area detection. If pre-processing and segmentation process have some ambiguity than ultimately it effects on classification process. We discuss such factors briefly so that new researchers can easily understand the situation to work further in which direction.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harith Al-Sahaf ◽  
A Song ◽  
K Neshatian ◽  
Mengjie Zhang

Image classification is a complex but important task especially in the areas of machine vision and image analysis such as remote sensing and face recognition. One of the challenges in image classification is finding an optimal set of features for a particular task because the choice of features has direct impact on the classification performance. However the goodness of a feature is highly problem dependent and often domain knowledge is required. To address these issues we introduce a Genetic Programming (GP) based image classification method, Two-Tier GP, which directly operates on raw pixels rather than features. The first tier in a classifier is for automatically defining features based on raw image input, while the second tier makes decision. Compared to conventional feature based image classification methods, Two-Tier GP achieved better accuracies on a range of different tasks. Furthermore by using the features defined by the first tier of these Two-Tier GP classifiers, conventional classification methods obtained higher accuracies than classifying on manually designed features. Analysis on evolved Two-Tier image classifiers shows that there are genuine features captured in the programs and the mechanism of achieving high accuracy can be revealed. The Two-Tier GP method has clear advantages in image classification, such as high accuracy, good interpretability and the removal of explicit feature extraction process. © 2012 IEEE.


Author(s):  
Joost van der Putten ◽  
Jeroen de Groof ◽  
Fons van der Sommen ◽  
Maarten Struyvenberg ◽  
Svitlana Zinger ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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~ Qurrat Ul Ain

<p>Skin image classification involves the development of computational methods for solving problems such as cancer detection in lesion images, and their use for biomedical research and clinical care. Such methods aim at extracting relevant information or knowledge from skin images that can significantly assist in the early detection of disease. Skin images are enormous, and come with various artifacts that hinder effective feature extraction leading to inaccurate classification. Feature selection and feature construction can significantly reduce the amount of data while improving classification performance by selecting prominent features and constructing high-level features. Existing approaches mostly rely on expert intervention and follow multiple stages for pre-processing, feature extraction, and classification, which decreases the reliability, and increases the computational complexity. Since good generalization accuracy is not always the primary objective, clinicians are also interested in analyzing specific features such as pigment network, streaks, and blobs responsible for developing the disease; interpretable methods are favored. In Evolutionary Computation, Genetic Programming (GP) can automatically evolve an interpretable model and address the curse of dimensionality (through feature selection and construction). GP has been successfully applied to many areas, but its potential for feature selection, feature construction, and classification in skin images has not been thoroughly investigated. The overall goal of this thesis is to develop a new GP approach to skin image classification by utilizing GP to evolve programs that are capable of automatically selecting prominent image features, constructing new high level features, interpreting useful image features which can help dermatologist to diagnose a type of cancer, and are robust to processing skin images captured from specialized instruments and standard cameras. This thesis focuses on utilizing a wide range of texture, color, frequency-based, local, and global image properties at the terminal nodes of GP to classify skin cancer images from multiple modalities effectively. This thesis develops new two-stage GP methods using embedded and wrapper feature selection and construction approaches to automatically generating a feature vector of selected and constructed features for classification. The results show that wrapper approach outperforms the embedded approach, the existing baseline GP and other machine learning methods, but the embedded approach is faster than the wrapper approach. This thesis develops a multi-tree GP based embedded feature selection approach for melanoma detection using domain specific and domain independent features. It explores suitable crossover and mutation operators to evolve GP classifiers effectively and further extends this approach using a weighted fitness function. The results show that these multi-tree approaches outperformed single tree GP and other classification methods. They identify that a specific feature extraction method extracts most suitable features for particular images taken from a specific optical instrument. This thesis develops the first GP method utilizing frequency-based wavelet features, where the wrapper based feature selection and construction methods automatically evolve useful constructed features to improve the classification performance. The results show the evidence of successful feature construction by significantly outperforming existing GP approaches, state-of-the-art CNN, and other classification methods. This thesis develops a GP approach to multiple feature construction for ensemble learning in classification. The results show that the ensemble method outperformed existing GP approaches, state-of-the-art skin image classification, and commonly used ensemble methods. Further analysis of the evolved constructed features identified important image features that can potentially help the dermatologist identify further medical procedures in real-world situations.</p>


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Tina Babu ◽  
Tripty Singh ◽  
Deepa Gupta ◽  
Shahin Hameed

Colon cancer is one of the highest cancer diagnosis mortality rates worldwide. However, relying on the expertise of pathologists is a demanding and time-consuming process for histopathological analysis. The automated diagnosis of colon cancer from biopsy examination played an important role for patients and prognosis. As conventional handcrafted feature extraction requires specialized experience to select realistic features, deep learning processes have been chosen as abstract high-level features may be extracted automatically. This paper presents the colon cancer detection system using transfer learning architectures to automatically extract high-level features from colon biopsy images for automated diagnosis of patients and prognosis. In this study, the image features are extracted from a pre-trained convolutional neural network (CNN) and used to train the Bayesian optimized Support Vector Machine classifier. Moreover, Alexnet, VGG-16, and Inception-V3 pre-trained neural networks were used to analyze the best network for colon cancer detection. Furthermore, the proposed framework is evaluated using four datasets: two are collected from Indian hospitals (with different magnifications 4X, 10X, 20X, and 40X) and the other two are public colon image datasets. Compared with the existing classifiers and methods using public datasets, the test results evaluated the Inception-V3 network with the accuracy range from 96.5% - 99% as best suited for the proposed framework.


Scientists have been trying to implement traditional methods around the world, particularly in developing countries, to reduce the death rate of skin cancer in humans. The scientific term is named as melanoma. But this effort always working hard as the system is costly, the low availability of experts and the conventional telemedicine. There are three types of skin cancer: basal cell cancer (BCC), squamous cell cancer, and melanoma. More than 90% of human is affected by ultraviolet (UV) radiation exposed to the sun. In this research, a skin cancer detection system (BCC) is designed in MATLAB. The images going to different processes such as Pre processing, feature extraction and classification. In pre-processing K-mean clustering is applied to determine the foreground and background of an image, since some part of background appear in the image after K-mean. Therefore, to resolve this problem Particle Swarm optimization (PSO) is applied. The segmented image features are extracted using Speed Up Robust Features (SURF), this helps to enhance the quality of the image. The Artificial neural network (ANN) is trained on the basis of these extracted features. To determine the efficiency of the system, the images are tested and performance parameters are measured. The detection accuracy determined by this model is about 98.7 5 is obtained.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
~ Qurrat Ul Ain

<p>Skin image classification involves the development of computational methods for solving problems such as cancer detection in lesion images, and their use for biomedical research and clinical care. Such methods aim at extracting relevant information or knowledge from skin images that can significantly assist in the early detection of disease. Skin images are enormous, and come with various artifacts that hinder effective feature extraction leading to inaccurate classification. Feature selection and feature construction can significantly reduce the amount of data while improving classification performance by selecting prominent features and constructing high-level features. Existing approaches mostly rely on expert intervention and follow multiple stages for pre-processing, feature extraction, and classification, which decreases the reliability, and increases the computational complexity. Since good generalization accuracy is not always the primary objective, clinicians are also interested in analyzing specific features such as pigment network, streaks, and blobs responsible for developing the disease; interpretable methods are favored. In Evolutionary Computation, Genetic Programming (GP) can automatically evolve an interpretable model and address the curse of dimensionality (through feature selection and construction). GP has been successfully applied to many areas, but its potential for feature selection, feature construction, and classification in skin images has not been thoroughly investigated. The overall goal of this thesis is to develop a new GP approach to skin image classification by utilizing GP to evolve programs that are capable of automatically selecting prominent image features, constructing new high level features, interpreting useful image features which can help dermatologist to diagnose a type of cancer, and are robust to processing skin images captured from specialized instruments and standard cameras. This thesis focuses on utilizing a wide range of texture, color, frequency-based, local, and global image properties at the terminal nodes of GP to classify skin cancer images from multiple modalities effectively. This thesis develops new two-stage GP methods using embedded and wrapper feature selection and construction approaches to automatically generating a feature vector of selected and constructed features for classification. The results show that wrapper approach outperforms the embedded approach, the existing baseline GP and other machine learning methods, but the embedded approach is faster than the wrapper approach. This thesis develops a multi-tree GP based embedded feature selection approach for melanoma detection using domain specific and domain independent features. It explores suitable crossover and mutation operators to evolve GP classifiers effectively and further extends this approach using a weighted fitness function. The results show that these multi-tree approaches outperformed single tree GP and other classification methods. They identify that a specific feature extraction method extracts most suitable features for particular images taken from a specific optical instrument. This thesis develops the first GP method utilizing frequency-based wavelet features, where the wrapper based feature selection and construction methods automatically evolve useful constructed features to improve the classification performance. The results show the evidence of successful feature construction by significantly outperforming existing GP approaches, state-of-the-art CNN, and other classification methods. This thesis develops a GP approach to multiple feature construction for ensemble learning in classification. The results show that the ensemble method outperformed existing GP approaches, state-of-the-art skin image classification, and commonly used ensemble methods. Further analysis of the evolved constructed features identified important image features that can potentially help the dermatologist identify further medical procedures in real-world situations.</p>


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