AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION FOR BRAIN MRIS BASED ON 2D MF-DFA METHOD

Fractals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (06) ◽  
pp. 2050109
Author(s):  
JIAN WANG ◽  
WEI SHAO ◽  
JUNSEOK KIM

Magnetic resonance image (MRI) is an important tool to diagnose human diseases effectively. It is very important for research and clinical application to classify the normal and abnormal human brain MRI images automatically. In this paper, an accurate and efficient technique is proposed to extract features of MRIs and classify these images into normal and abnormal categories. We use two-dimensional multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis (2D MF-DFA) to obtain image features. These features are the local generalized Hurst exponents calculated by 2D MF-DFA. In this regard, the values of Hurst exponents are given as the training input vector and are taken to the classifiers. We use [Formula: see text]-nearest neighbor ([Formula: see text]-NN) and support vector machine (SVM) to classify a specific brain MRI as normal or glioma affected. For SVM, we apply the leave-one-out cross-validation method for experimental verification. The 2D MF-DFA-SVM system achieved accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of [Formula: see text] ±[Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text] ±[Formula: see text], respectively. The 2D MF-DFA-[Formula: see text]-NN system achieved accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text], respectively. We find that when performing binary classification for brain MRIs, the SVM is superior to [Formula: see text]-NN. In addition, our experimental results indicate that the proposed 2D MF-DFA-SVM achieved excellent outcomes compared to those of the previous works. The proposed system is a promising system to clinical use.

Medicina ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 527
Author(s):  
Vijay Vyas Vadhiraj ◽  
Andrew Simpkin ◽  
James O’Connell ◽  
Naykky Singh Singh Ospina ◽  
Spyridoula Maraka ◽  
...  

Background and Objectives: Thyroid nodules are lumps of solid or liquid-filled tumors that form inside the thyroid gland, which can be malignant or benign. Our aim was to test whether the described features of the Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System (TI-RADS) could improve radiologists’ decision making when integrated into a computer system. In this study, we developed a computer-aided diagnosis system integrated into multiple-instance learning (MIL) that would focus on benign–malignant classification. Data were available from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Materials and Methods: There were 99 cases (33 Benign and 66 malignant). In this study, the median filter and image binarization were used for image pre-processing and segmentation. The grey level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) was used to extract seven ultrasound image features. These data were divided into 87% training and 13% validation sets. We compared the support vector machine (SVM) and artificial neural network (ANN) classification algorithms based on their accuracy score, sensitivity, and specificity. The outcome measure was whether the thyroid nodule was benign or malignant. We also developed a graphic user interface (GUI) to display the image features that would help radiologists with decision making. Results: ANN and SVM achieved an accuracy of 75% and 96% respectively. SVM outperformed all the other models on all performance metrics, achieving higher accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity score. Conclusions: Our study suggests promising results from MIL in thyroid cancer detection. Further testing with external data is required before our classification model can be employed in practice.


Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 1502
Author(s):  
Ben Wilkes ◽  
Igor Vatolkin ◽  
Heinrich Müller

We present a multi-modal genre recognition framework that considers the modalities audio, text, and image by features extracted from audio signals, album cover images, and lyrics of music tracks. In contrast to pure learning of features by a neural network as done in the related work, handcrafted features designed for a respective modality are also integrated, allowing for higher interpretability of created models and further theoretical analysis of the impact of individual features on genre prediction. Genre recognition is performed by binary classification of a music track with respect to each genre based on combinations of elementary features. For feature combination a two-level technique is used, which combines aggregation into fixed-length feature vectors with confidence-based fusion of classification results. Extensive experiments have been conducted for three classifier models (Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machine, and Random Forest) and numerous feature combinations. The results are presented visually, with data reduction for improved perceptibility achieved by multi-objective analysis and restriction to non-dominated data. Feature- and classifier-related hypotheses are formulated based on the data, and their statistical significance is formally analyzed. The statistical analysis shows that the combination of two modalities almost always leads to a significant increase of performance and the combination of three modalities in several cases.


2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-40
Author(s):  
S. Sathiya Devi

In this paper, a simple image retrieval method incorporating relevance feedback based on the multiresolution enhanced orthogonal polynomials model is proposed. In the proposed method, the low level image features such as texture, shape and color are extracted from the reordered orthogonal polynomials model coefficients and linearly combined to form a multifeature set. Then the dimensionality of the multifeature set is reduced by utilizing multi objective Genetic Algorithm (GA) and multiclass binary Support Vector Machine (SVM). The obtained optimized multifeature set is used for image retrieval. In order to improve the retrieval accuracy and to bridge the semantic gap, a correlation based k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) method for relevance feedback is also proposed. In this method, an appropriate relevance score is computed for each image in the database based on relevant and non relevant set chosen by the user with correlation based k-NN method. The experiments are carried out with Corel and Caltech database images and the retrieval rates are computed. The proposed method with correlation based k-NN for relevance feedback gives an average retrieval rate of 94.67%.


Author(s):  
Soumia Kerrache ◽  
Beladgham Mohammed ◽  
Hamza Aymen ◽  
Kadri Ibrahim

Features extraction is an essential process in identifying person biometrics because the effectiveness of the system depends on it. Multiresolution Analysis success can be used in the system of a person’s identification and pattern recognition. In this paper, we present a feature extraction method for two-dimensional face and iris authentication.  Our approach is a combination of principal component analysis (PCA) and curvelet transform as an improved fusion approach for feature extraction. The proposed fusion approach involves image denoising using 2D-Curvelet transform to achieve compact representations of curves singularities. This is followed by the application of PCA as a fusion rule to improve upon the spatial resolution. The limitations of the only PCA algorithm are a poor recognition speed and complex mathematical calculating load, to reduce these limitations, we are applying the curvelet transform. <br /> To assess the performance of the presented method, we have employed three classification techniques: Neural networks (NN), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) and Support Vector machines (SVM).<br />The results reveal that the extraction of image features is more efficient using Curvelet/PCA.


Author(s):  
Md Nasim Khan ◽  
Mohamed M. Ahmed

Snowfall negatively affects pavement and visibility conditions, making it one of the major causes of motor vehicle crashes in winter weather. Therefore, providing drivers with real-time roadway weather information during adverse weather is crucial for safe driving. Although road weather stations can provide weather information, these stations are expensive and often do not represent real-time trajectory-level weather information. The main motivation of this study was to develop an affordable in-vehicle snow detection system which can provide trajectory-level weather information in real time. The system utilized SHRP2 Naturalistic Driving Study video data and was based on machine learning techniques. To train the snow detection models, two texture-based image features including gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and local binary pattern (LBP), and three classification algorithms: support vector machine (SVM), k-nearest neighbor (K-NN), and random forest (RF) were used. The analysis was done on an image dataset consisting of three weather conditions: clear, light snow, and heavy snow. While the highest overall prediction accuracy of the models based on the GLCM features was found to be around 86%, the models considering the LBP based features provided a much higher prediction accuracy of 96%. The snow detection system proposed in this study is cost effective, does not require a lot of technical support, and only needs a single video camera. With the advances in smartphone cameras, simple mobile apps with proper data connectivity can effectively be used to detect roadway weather conditions in real time with reasonable accuracy.


Author(s):  
Duan Mei ◽  
Qiang Liu

Based on MicroRNA (miRNA) expression profiles, this article proposes a new algorithm—SVM-RFE-FKNN, which combines the support vector machine-recursive feature elimination (SVM-RFE) algorithm and the fuzzy K -nearest neighbor (FKNN) algorithm, to realize binary classification of tumors. First, the SVM-RFE algorithm was used to select features from the miRNA expression profile dataset to constitute feature subsets and to determine the maximum number of support vectors. Next, this maximum number was regarded as the upper limit of the parameter K in the FKNN algorithm that was then used to classify the samples to be tested. Finally, the leave-one-out cross-validation method was adopted to assess the classification performance of the proposed algorithm. Through experiments, our proposed algorithm was compared with other twelve classification methods, and the result shows that our algorithm had better classification performance. Specifically, with only a few miRNA biomarkers, the proposed algorithm could reach an accuracy of 99.46% and an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of 0.9874.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (15) ◽  
pp. 4322
Author(s):  
Hui Wei ◽  
Weiwei Shu ◽  
Longjun Dong ◽  
Zhongying Huang ◽  
Daoyuan Sun

The discrimination of micro-seismic events (events) and blasts is significant for monitoring and analyzing micro-seismicity in underground mines. To eliminate the negative effects of conventional discrimination methods, a waveform image discriminant method was proposed. Principal component analysis (PCA) was applied to extract the raw features of events and blasts through their waveform images that established by the recorded field data, and transform them into the new uncorrelated features. The amount of initial information retained in the derived features could be determined quantitatively by the contribution rate. The binary classification models were established by utilizing the support vector machine (SVM) algorithm and the PCA derived waveform image features. Results of four groups of cross validation show that the optimal values for the accuracy of events and blasts, total accuracy, and quality evaluation parameter MCC are 97.1%, 93.8%, 93.60%, and 0.8723, respectively. Moreover, the computation efficiency per accuracy (CEA) was introduced to quantitatively evaluate the effects of contribution rate on classification accuracy and computation efficiency. The optimal contribution rate was determined to be 0.90. The waveform image discriminant method can automatically classify events and blasts in underground mines, ensuring the efficient establishment of high-quality micro-seismic databases and providing adequate data for the subsequent seismicity analysis.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Xu ◽  
Liu Ouyang ◽  
Yan Gao ◽  
Yuanfang Chen ◽  
Tingting Yu ◽  
...  

Effectively identifying COVID-19 patients using non-PCR clinical data is critical for the optimal clinical outcomes. Currently, there is a lack of comprehensive understanding of various biomedical features and appropriate technical approaches to accurately detecting COVID-19 patients. In this study, we recruited 214 confirmed COVID-19 patients in non-severe (NS) and 148 in severe (S) clinical type, 198 non-infected healthy (H) participants and 129 non-COVID viral pneumonia (V) patients. The participants' clinical information (23 features), lab testing results (10 features), and thoracic CT scans upon admission were acquired as three input feature modalities. To enable late fusion of multimodality data, we developed a deep learning model to extract a 10-feature high-level representation of the CT scans. Exploratory analyses showed substantial differences of all features among the four classes. Three machine learning models (k-nearest neighbor kNN, random forest RF, and support vector machine SVM) were developed based on the 43 features combined from all three modalities to differentiate four classes (NS, S, V, and H) at once. All three models had high accuracy to differentiate the overall four classes (95.4%-97.7%) and each individual class (90.6%-99.9%). Multimodal features provided substantial performance gain from using any single feature modality. Compared to existing binary classification benchmarks often focusing on single feature modality, this study provided a novel and effective breakthrough for clinical applications. Findings and the analytical workflow can be used as clinical decision support for current COVID-19 and other clinical applications with high-dimensional multimodal biomedical features.


2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (03) ◽  
pp. 1350009 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. RAJENDRA ACHARYA ◽  
RATNA YANTI ◽  
JIA WEI ZHENG ◽  
M MUTHU RAMA KRISHNAN ◽  
JEN HONG TAN ◽  
...  

Epilepsy is a chronic brain disorder which manifests as recurrent seizures. Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals are generally analyzed to study the characteristics of epileptic seizures. In this work, we propose a method for the automated classification of EEG signals into normal, interictal and ictal classes using Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT), Higher Order Spectra (HOS) and textures. First the CWT plot was obtained for the EEG signals and then the HOS and texture features were extracted from these plots. Then the statistically significant features were fed to four classifiers namely Decision Tree (DT), K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) to select the best classifier. We observed that the SVM classifier with Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernel function yielded the best results with an average accuracy of 96%, average sensitivity of 96.9% and average specificity of 97% for 23.6 s duration of EEG data. Our proposed technique can be used as an automatic seizure monitoring software. It can also assist the doctors to cross check the efficacy of their prescribed drugs.


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