scholarly journals Semi-automatic Segmentation of 3D Liver Tumors from CT Scans Using Voxel Classification and Propagational Learning

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiayin Zhou ◽  
Wei Xiong ◽  
Qi Tian ◽  
Yingyi Qi ◽  
Jiang Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liver Tumors ◽  
Automatic Segmentation ◽  
Ct Images ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Svm Classifier ◽  
Morphological Operations ◽  
Tumor Region ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
Intermediate Part ◽  
Voxel Classification

A semi-automatic scheme was developed for the segmentation of 3D liver tumors from computed tomography (CT) images. First a support vector machine (SVM) classifier was trained to extract tumor region from one single 2D slice in the intermediate part of a tumor by voxel classification. Then the extracted tumor contour, after some morphological operations, was projected to its neighboring slices for automated sampling, learning and further voxel classification in neighboring slices. This propagation procedure continued till all tumor-containing slices were processed. The method was tested using 3D CT images with 10 liver tumors and a set of quantitative measures were computed, resulted in an averaged overall performance score of 72.

scholarly journals Segmentation of Multi-Tumor from PET/CT Images

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12S2) ◽  
pp. 170-176
Keyword(s):  
Automatic Segmentation ◽  
Mean Shift ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Histogram Equalization ◽  
Ct Images ◽  
Svm Classifier ◽  
Segmentation Evaluation ◽  
Multiple Tumor ◽  
Mean Shift Clustering ◽  
Pet Ct

The aim of the project is to develop a methodology for automatic segmentation of multiple tumor from PET/CT images. Image pre-processing methods such as Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE), image sharpening and Wiener filtering were performed to remove the artifacts due to contrast variations and noise. The image was segmented using K-means, Threshold segmentation, watershed segmentation, FCM clustering Segmentation, Mean shift Clustering Segmentation, Graph Cut Segmentation. Evaluation was made for the segmentation against the Ground Truth. Various Features was selected and extracted. Classification was made using SVM classifier and KNN classifier to classify the tumor as benign or malignant. The proposed method was carried out using PET/CT images of lung cancer patients and implemented using MATLAB.

scholarly journals AUTOMATIC LUNG NODULE DETECTION BASED ON STATISTICAL REGION MERGING AND SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaheh Aghabalaei Khordehchi ◽  
Ahmad Ayatollahi ◽  
Mohammad Reza Daliri
Keyword(s):  
Lung Nodule ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Pulmonary Nodules ◽  
Ct Images ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Svm Classifier ◽  
Region Merging ◽  
Three Dimensional Objects ◽  
Ct Data ◽  
Statistical Region Merging

Lung cancer is one of the most common diseases in the world that can be treated if the lung nodules are detected in their early stages of growth. This study develops a new framework for computer-aided detection of pulmonary nodules thorough a fully-automatic analysis of Computed Tomography (CT) images. In the present work, the multi-layer CT data is fed into a pre-processing step that exploits an adaptive diffusion-based smoothing algorithm in which the parameters are automatically tuned using an adaptation technique. After multiple levels of morphological filtering, the Regions of Interest (ROIs) are extracted from the smoothed images. The Statistical Region Merging (SRM) algorithm is applied to the ROIs in order to segment each layer of the CT data. Extracted segments in consecutive layers are then analyzed in such a way that if they intersect at more than a predefined number of pixels, they are labeled with a similar index. The boundaries of the segments in adjacent layers which have the same indices are then connected together to form three-dimensional objects as the nodule candidates. After extracting four spectral, one morphological, and one textural feature from all candidates, they are finally classified into nodules and non-nodules using the Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. The proposed framework has been applied to two sets of lung CT images and its performance has been compared to that of nine other competing state-of-the-art methods. The considerable efficiency of the proposed approach has been proved quantitatively and validated by clinical experts as well.

Using geometric constraints to improve performance of image classifiers for automatic segmentation of traffic signs

GEOMATICA ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Roholah Yazdan ◽  
Masood Varshosaz ◽  
Saied Pirasteh ◽  
Fabio Remondino
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Learning Algorithm ◽  
Automatic Segmentation ◽  
Geometric Constraints ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Svm Classifier ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Traffic Signs ◽  
Deep Learning Algorithm ◽  
Comparison Results

Automatic detection and recognition of traffic signs from images is an important topic in many applications. At first, we segmented the images using a classification algorithm to delineate the areas where the signs are more likely to be found. In this regard, shadows, objects having similar colours, and extreme illumination changes can significantly affect the segmentation results. We propose a new shape-based algorithm to improve the accuracy of the segmentation. The algorithm works by incorporating the sign geometry to filter out the wrong pixels from the classification results. We performed several tests to compare the performance of our algorithm against those obtained by popular techniques such as Support Vector Machine (SVM), K-Means, and K-Nearest Neighbours. In these tests, to overcome the unwanted illumination effects, the images are transformed into colour spaces Hue, Saturation, and Intensity, YUV, normalized red green blue, and Gaussian. Among the traditional techniques used in this study, the best results were obtained with SVM applied to the images transformed into the Gaussian colour space. The comparison results also suggested that by adding the geometric constraints proposed in this study, the quality of sign image segmentation is improved by 10%–25%. We also comparted the SVM classifier enhanced by incorporating the geometry of signs with a U-Shaped deep learning algorithm. Results suggested the performance of both techniques is very close. Perhaps the deep learning results could be improved if a more comprehensive data set is provided.

Automated brain tumor segmentation from multimodal MRI data based on Tamura texture feature and an ensemble SVM classifier

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 466-480
Author(s):  
Li Na ◽  
Xiong Zhiyong ◽  
Deng Tianqi ◽  
Ren Kai
Keyword(s):  
Brain Tumor ◽  
Brain Tumors ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Svm Classifier ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Original Solution ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Tumor Region ◽  
The Brain

Purpose The precise segmentation of brain tumors is the most important and crucial step in their diagnosis and treatment. Due to the presence of noise, uneven gray levels, blurred boundaries and edema around the brain tumor region, the brain tumor image has indistinct features in the tumor region, which pose a problem for diagnostics. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, the authors propose an original solution for segmentation using Tamura Texture and ensemble Support Vector Machine (SVM) structure. In the proposed technique, 124 features of each voxel are extracted, including Tamura texture features and grayscale features. Then, these features are ranked using the SVM-Recursive Feature Elimination method, which is also adopted to optimize the parameters of the Radial Basis Function kernel of SVMs. Finally, the bagging random sampling method is utilized to construct the ensemble SVM classifier based on a weighted voting mechanism to classify the types of voxel. Findings The experiments are conducted over a sample data set to be called BraTS2015. The experiments demonstrate that Tamura texture is very useful in the segmentation of brain tumors, especially the feature of line-likeness. The superior performance of the proposed ensemble SVM classifier is demonstrated by comparison with single SVM classifiers as well as other methods. Originality/value The authors propose an original solution for segmentation using Tamura Texture and ensemble SVM structure.

scholarly journals A Vision based Indian Traffic Sign Classification

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 3132-3141
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector ◽  
Svm Classifier ◽  
Traffic Sign ◽  
Illumination Variation ◽  
Svm Algorithm ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Surf Features ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
Whisker Plot ◽  
Traffic Sign Classification

In this paper, an algorithm is proposed to classify the Indian traffic sign as mandatory cautionary and informatory class. In order to complete the task, system extracted the speed up robust features (SURF) from the Indian traffic sign data, and exploited these features to train support vector machine (SVM) algorithm. Combination of SURF features and SVM classifier makes system robust for scale variation, rotation, translation and illumination variation as well as generalization is achieved. Dimension of features have been reduced by choosing a sub set of features. Whisker and box plot visualization utilized to understand the features data. Whisker plot visualization concluded about the range, skewness, median and outliers of feature data therefore, it makes the system capable to keep good features and back out from irrelevant features. Feature refinement reduces the computational complexity. The results evaluated narrate that the overall performance of proposed algorithm is efficient.

scholarly journals Using Distance Measure based Classification in Automatic Extraction of Lungs Cancer Nodules for Computer Aided Diagnosis

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-43
Author(s):  
Maan Ammar ◽  
Muhammad Shamdeen ◽  
Mazen Kasedeh ◽  
Kinan Mansour ◽  
Waad Ammar
Keyword(s):  
Euclidean Distance ◽  
Distance Measure ◽  
Ct Images ◽  
Chest Ct ◽  
Connected Components ◽  
Automatic Extraction ◽  
Morphological Operations ◽  
Connected Component ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
Aided Diagnosis

We introduce in this paper a reliable method for automatic extraction of lungs nodules from CT chest images and shed the light on the details of using the Weighted Euclidean Distance (WED) for classifying lungs connected components into nodule and not-nodule. We explain also using Connected Component Labeling (CCL) in an effective and flexible method for extraction of lungs area from chest CT images with a wide variety of shapes and sizes. This lungs extraction method makes use of, as well as CCL, some morphological operations. Our tests have shown that the performance of the introduce method is high. Finally, in order to check whether the method works correctly or not for healthy and patient CT images, we tested the method by some images of healthy persons and demonstrated that the overall performance of the method is satisfactory.

scholarly journals Detection and Classification of Ring, Rust and Yellow Sugarcane Leaf Diseases

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 3310-3315
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Color Image ◽  
Region Of Interest ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Svm Classifier ◽  
Morphological Operations ◽  
Color Processing ◽  
Grey Scale ◽  
Average Accuracy ◽  
Crop Disease

Agriculture is an important sector in Economic and Social life. Crop disease detection is an emerging field in India. We can minimize the diseases infection on sugarcane leaf by detecting and grading the leaf disease in early stages. In this paper, we are detecting and recognize Sugar cane leaf diseases by using grey scale and color image processing and analyze the efficacy by comparing both. In grey scale processing, we presented Gradient Magnitude, Otsu method, Morphological Operations and Normalization to extract the Region of interest (ROI) i.e., disease part. In color processing initially converted RGB to L*a*b format, later K-means clustering and edge detection operations are applied on L*a*b image format. The features of Grey scale & color processed image are extracted and feed to Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier which classifies ring, rust & yellow spot sugarcane leaf diseases. The Sugarcane leaf diseases are classified successfully with an average accuracy of 84% & 92% for grey scale & color features respectively.

scholarly journals Supervised Image Classification Algorithm Using Representative Spatial Texture Features: Application to COVID-19 Diagnosis Using CT Images

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zehor Belkhatir ◽  
Raúl San José Estépar ◽  
Allen R. Tannenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Image Classification ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Texture Features ◽  
Ct Images ◽  
Bayesian Optimization ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Svm Classifier ◽  
Wasserstein Metric ◽  
Supervised Image Classification ◽  
Representative Samples

AbstractAlthough there is no universal definition for texture, the concept in various forms is nevertheless widely used and a key element of visual perception to analyze images in different fields. The present work’s main idea relies on the assumption that there exist representative samples, which we refer to as references as well, i.e., “good or bad” samples that represent a given dataset investigated in a particular data analysis problem. These representative samples need to be accounted for when designing predictive models with the aim of improving their performance. In particular, based on a selected subset of texture gray-level co-occurrence matrices (GLCMs) from the training cohort, we propose new representative spatial texture features, which we incorporate into a supervised image classification pipeline. The pipeline relies on the support vector machine (SVM) algorithm along with Bayesian optimization and the Wasserstein metric from optimal mass transport (OMT) theory. The selection of the best, “good and bad,” GLCM references is considered for each classification label and performed during the training phase of the SVM classifier using a Bayesian optimizer. We assume that sample fitness is defined based on closeness (in the sense of the Wasserstein metric) and high correlation (Spearman’s rank sense) with other samples in the same class. Moreover, the newly defined spatial texture features consist of the Wasserstein distance between the optimally selected references and the remaining samples. We assessed the performance of the proposed classification pipeline in diagnosing the corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from computed tomographic (CT) images.

Classifying Lithofacies from Textural Features in Whole Core CT-Scan Images

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Kurdistan Chawshin ◽  
Carl F. Berg ◽  
Damiano Varagnolo ◽  
Andres Gonzalez ◽  
Zoya Heidari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Principal Component ◽  
Ct Images ◽  
Nondestructive Method ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Svm Classifier ◽  
Statistical Features ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Unseen Data ◽  
Core Description

Summary X-ray computerized tomography (CT) is a nondestructive method of providing information about the internal composition and structure of whole core reservoir samples. In this study we propose a method to classify lithology. The novelty of this method is that it uses statistical and textural information extracted from whole core CT images in a supervised learning environment. In the proposed approaches, first-order statistical features and textural grey-levelco-occurrence matrix (GLCM) features are extracted from whole core CT images. Here, two workflows are considered. In the first workflow, the extracted features are used to train a support vector machine (SVM) to classify lithofacies. In the second workflow, a principal component analysis (PCA) step is added before training with two purposes: first, to eliminate collinearity among the features and second, to investigate the amount of information needed to differentiate the analyzed images. Before extracting the statistical features, the images are preprocessed and decomposed using Haar mother wavelet decomposition schemes to enhance the texture and to acquire a set of detail images that are then used to compute the statistical features. The training data set includes lithological information obtained from core description. The approach is validated using the trained SVM and hybrid (PCA + SVM) classifiers to predict lithofacies in a set of unseen data. The obtained results show that the SVM classifier can predict some of the lithofacies with high accuracy (up to 91% recall), but it misclassifies, to some extent, similar lithofacies with similar grain size, texture, and transport properties. The SVM classifier captures the heterogeneity in the whole core CT images more accurately compared with the core description, indicating that the CT images provide additional high-resolution information not observed by manual core description. Further, the obtained prediction results add information on the similarity of the lithofacies classes. The prediction results using the hybrid classifier are worse than the SVM classifier, indicating that low-power components may contain information that is required to differentiate among various lithofacies.

scholarly journals Security Challenges and Application for Underwater Wireless Sensor Network

10.29007/ctsn ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarvesh Kumar Kumar ◽  
Bersha Kumari ◽  
Harshita Chawla
Keyword(s):  
Ct Images ◽  
Kernel Functions ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Svm Classifier ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Normal Brain ◽  
Brain Images ◽  
Brain Ct ◽  
Automated Method ◽  
Occurrence Matrix

Automated detection of the abnormalities in brain image analysis is very important and it is prerequisite for planning and treatment of the disease. Computed tomography scan is an imaging technique used for studying brain images. Classification of brain images is important in order to distinguish between normal brain images and those having the abnormalities in brain like hematomas, tumor, edema, concussion etc. The proposed automated method identifies the abnormalities in brain CT images and classifies them using support vector machine. The proposed method consists of three important phases, First phase is preprocessing, second phase consists of feature extraction and final phase is classification. In the first phase preprocessing is performed on brain CT images to remove artifacts and noise. In second phase features are extracted from brain CT images using gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM). In the final stage, extracted features are fed as input to SVM classifier with different kernel functions that classifies the images into normal and abnormal with different accuracy levels.

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