Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Liver Tumors Based on Multi-Image Texture Analysis of Contrast-Enhanced CT. Selection of the Most Appropriate Texture Features

• Authors: Dorota Duda , Marek Krętowski , Johanne Bézy-Wendling
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this work, a system for the classification of liver dynamic contest- enhanced CT images is presented. The system simultaneously analyzes the images with the same slice location, corresponding to three typical acquisition moments (without contrast, arterial- and portal phase of contrast propagation). At first, the texture features are extracted separately for each acquisition mo- ment. Afterwards, they are united in one “multiphase” vector, characterizing a triplet of textures. The work focuses on finding the most appropriate features that characterize a multi-image texture. At the beginning, the features which are unstable and dependent on ROI size are eliminated. Then, a small subset of remaining features is selected in order to guarantee the best possible classification accuracy. In total, 9 extraction methods were used, and 61 features were calculated for each of three acquisition moments. 1511 texture triplets, corresponding to 4 hepatic tissue classes were recognized (hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, cirrhotic, and normal). As a classifier, an adaptive boosting algorithm with a C4.5 tree was used. Experiments show that a small set of 12 features is able to ensure classification accuracy exceeding 90%, while all of the 183 features provide an accuracy rate of 88.94%.

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 49-70

Dates

published

2013-12-01

online

2013-12-31

Contributors

author

Dorota Duda

• Faculty of Computer Science, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland

author

Marek Krętowski

• Faculty of Computer Science, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland

author

Johanne Bézy-Wendling

• Signal and Image Processing Laboratory (LTSI), University of Rennes 1, France
• National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), University of Rennes 1, France

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/slgr-2013-0039