Computer-aided diagnosis in hysteroscopic imaging

M. S. Neofytou, V. Tanos, I. Constantinou, E. C. Kyriacou, M. S. Pattichis, C. S. Pattichis

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Abstract

The paper presents the development of a computeraided diagnostic (CAD) system for the early detection of endometrial cancer. The proposed CAD system supports reproducibility through texture feature standardization, standardized multifeature selection, and provides physicians with comparative distributions of the extracted texture features. The CAD system was validated using 516 regions of interest (ROIs) extracted from 52 subjects. The ROIs were equally distributed among normal and abnormal cases. To support reproducibility, the RGB images were first gamma corrected and then converted into HSV and YCrCb. From each channel of the gamma-corrected YCrCb, HSV, and RGB color systems, we extracted the following texture features: 1) statistical features (SFs), 2) spatial gray-level dependence matrices (SGLDM), and 3) gray-level difference statistics (GLDS). The texture features were then used as inputs with support vector machines (SVMs) and the probabilistic neural network (PNN) classifiers. After accounting for multiple comparisons, texture features extracted from abnormal ROIs were found to be significantly different than texture features extracted from normal ROIs. Compared to texture features extracted from normal ROIs, abnormal ROIs were characterized by lower image intensity, while variance, entropy, and contrast gave higher values. In terms of ROI classification, the best results were achieved by using SF and GLDS features with an SVM classifier. For this combination, the proposed CAD system achieved an 81% correct classification rate. 2168-2194

Original languageEnglish
Article number6843354
Pages (from-to)1129-1136
Number of pages8
JournalIEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Volume19
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 May 2015

Keywords

  • Classification
  • Computer-aided diagnostic (CAD)
  • Computer-aided hysteroscopy
  • Endometrial cancer
  • Endoscopy
  • Hysteroscopy
  • Texture features

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