Brain tumor classification from multi-modality MRI using wavelets and machine learning

In this paper, we propose a brain tumor segmentation and classification method for multi-modality magnetic resonance imaging scans. The data from multi-modal brain tumor segmentation challenge (MICCAI BraTS 2013) are utilized which are co-registered and skull-stripped, and the histogram matching is performed with a reference volume of high contrast. From the preprocessed images, the following features are then extracted: intensity, intensity differences, local neighborhood and wavelet texture. The integrated features are subsequently provided to the random forest classifier to predict five classes: background, necrosis, edema, enhancing tumor and non-enhancing tumor, and then these class labels are used to hierarchically compute three different regions (complete tumor, active tumor and enhancing tumor). We performed a leave-one-out cross-validation and achieved 88% Dice overlap for the complete tumor region, 75% for the core tumor region and 95% for enhancing tumor region, which is higher than the Dice overlap reported from MICCAI BraTS challenge.     

Automatic tumor segmentation in single-spectral MRI using a texture-based and contour-based algorithm

Automatic detection of brain tumors in single-spectral magnetic resonance images is a challenging task. Existing techniques suffer from inadequate performance, dependence on initial assumptions, and, sometimes, the need for manual interference. The research reported in this paper seeks to reduce some of these shortcomings, and to remove others, achieving satisfactory performance at reasonable computational costs. The success of the system described here is explained by the synergy of the following aspects: (1) a broad choice of high-level features to characterize the image’s texture, (2) an efficient mechanism to eliminate less useful features (3) a machine-learning technique to induce a classifier that signals the presence of a tumor-affected tissue, and (4) an improved version of the skippy greedy snake algorithm to outline the tumor’s contours. The paper describes the system and reports experiments with synthetic as well as real data.     

Brain tumor detection and segmentation using mesh-free super-diffusive model

Multimedia Tools and Applications - Brain tumor detection and segmentation is a complex and challenging task in image processing. Most of the techniques used for brain tumor detection and...     

Text classification using embeddings: a survey

Knowledge and Information Systems - Text classification results can be hindered when just the bag-of-words model is used for representing features, because it ignores word order and senses, which...     

Brain tumor classification using deep convolutional autoencoder-based neural network: multi-task approach

Diagnosis, detection and classification of tumors, in the brain MRI images, are important because misdiagnosis can lead to death. This paper proposes a method that can diagnose brain tumors in the MRI images and classify them into 5 categories using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). The proposed network uses a Convolutional Auto-Encoder Neural Network (CANN) to extract and learn deep features of input images. Extracted deep features from each level are combined to make desirable features and improve results. To classify brain tumor into three categories (Meningioma, Glioma, and Pituitary) the proposed method was applied on Cheng dataset and has reached a considerable performance accuracy of 99.3%. To diagnosis and grading Glioma tumors, the proposed method was applied on IXI and BraTS 2017 datasets, and to classify brain images into six classes including Meningioma, Pituitary, Astrocytoma, High-Grade Glioma, Low-Grade Glioma and Normal images (No tumor), the all datasets including IXI, BraTS2017, Cheng and Hazrat-e-Rassol, was used by the proposed network, and it has reached desirable performance accuracy of 99.1% and 98.5%, respectively.

     

PSVM: a preference-enhanced SVM model using preference data for classification

Classification is an essential task in data mining, machine learning and pattern recognition areas. Conventional classification models focus on distinctive samples from different categories. There are fine-grained differences between data instances within a particular category. These differences form the preference information that is essential for human learning, and, in our view, could also be helpful for classification models. In this paper, we propose a preference-enhanced support vector machine (PSVM), that incorporates preference-pair data as a specific type of supplementary information into SVM. Additionally, we propose a two-layer heuristic sampling method to obtain effective preference-pairs, and an extended sequential minimal optimization (SMO) algorithm to fit PSVM. To evaluate our model, we use the task of knowledge base acceleration-cumulative citation recommendation (KBA-CCR) on the TREC-KBA-2012 dataset and seven other datasets from UCI, StatLib and mldata.org. The experimental results show that our proposed PSVM exhibits high performance with official evaluation metrics.     

基于多尺度注意力的特征自适应聚合脑肿瘤图像分割

针对脑部磁共振图像中脑卒中病灶的自动分割因分割目标边缘复杂、尺度变化多样而造成的识别精度不高的问题,提出一种基于多尺度注意力的多尺度特征聚合方法,该方法利用注意力机制调节中间特征不同通道的权重,并自适应地选择不同尺度的特征进行融合,在缺血性脑卒中的公开数据集ATLAS上进行的一系列实验,选取Dice系数、豪斯多夫距离、重叠度、准确率和召回率作为评价指标,结果表明所提出的模型在脑卒中病变的分割问题上取得了较好的分割效果;另外,本模型还在Kaggle公开的脑肿瘤数据集上完成对比实验,证明本模型具有良好的可泛化性。     

Brain tumor classification using modified kernel based softplus extreme learning machine

Multimedia Tools and Applications - An uncontrollable growth of abnormal cells in the brain may result in brain tumor. Two different categories of brain tumor are benign and malignant. The doctors...     

基于SVM输出概率和后置滤波的运动目标分类*

提出了一种新的运动目标分类方法,该方法利用sigmoid函数将标准SVM的输出结果直接转换为目标所属类别的概率,避免了分类器的组合问题;同时该方法还利用后置加权均值滤波器对SVM的初始输出结果进行滤波平滑处理,进一步提高了分类的正确率。实验结果表明,该方法能有效地提高运动目标分类的精度。     

Vehicle segmentation and classification using deformable templates

This paper proposes a segmentation algorithm using deformable template models to segment a vehicle of interest both from the stationary complex background and other moving vehicles in an image sequence. We define a polygonal template to characterize a general model of a vehicle and derive a prior probability density function to constrain the template to be deformed within a set of allowed shapes. We propose a likelihood probability density function which combines motion information and edge directionality to ensure that the deformable template is contained within the moving areas in the image and its boundary coincides with strong edges with the same orientation in the image. The segmentation problem is reduced to a minimization problem and solved by the Metropolis algorithm. The system was successfully tested on 405 image sequences containing multiple moving vehicles on a highway     

Image classification without segmentation using a hybrid pyramid kernel

Image classification usually requires complicated segmentation to separate foreground objects from the background scene. However, the statistical content of a background scene can actually provide very useful information for classification. In this paper, we propose a new hybrid pyramid kernel which incorporates local features extracted from both dense regular grids and interest points for image classification, without requiring segmentation. Features extracted from dense regular grids can better capture information about the background scene, while interest points detected at corners and edges can better capture information about the salient objects. In our algorithm, these two local features are combined in both the spatial and the feature-space domains, and are organized into pyramid representations. In order to obtain better classification accuracy, we fine-tune the parameters involved in the similarity measure, and we determine discriminative regions by means of relevance feedback. From the experimental results, we observe that our algorithm can achieve a 6.37 % increase in performance as compared to other pyramid-representation-based methods. To evaluate the applicability of the proposed hybrid kernel to large-scale databases, we have performed a cross-dataset experiment and investigated the effect of foreground/background features on each of the kernels. In particular, the proposed hybrid kernel has been proven to satisfy Mercer’s condition and is efficient in measuring the similarity between image features. For instance, the computational complexity of the proposed hybrid kernel is proportional to the number of features.     

CapsNet-based brain tumor segmentation in multimodal MRI images using inhomogeneous voxels in Del vector domain

Multimedia Tools and Applications - Glioma is a type of brain tumor that is the most typical and most aggressive tumor. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has a widespread utilization as an imaging...     

MRI脑肿瘤图像分割研究进展及挑战

脑肿瘤分割是医学图像处理中的一项重要内容,其目的是辅助医生做出准确的诊断和治疗,在临床脑部医学领域具有重要的实用价值。核磁共振成像（MRI）是临床医生研究脑部组织结构的主要影像学工具,为了使更多研究者对MRI脑肿瘤图像分割理论及其发展进行探索,本文对该领域研究现状进行综述。首先总结了用于MRI脑肿瘤图像分割的方法,并对现有方法进行了分类,即分为监督分割和非监督分割;然后重点综述了基于深度学习的脑肿瘤分割方法,在研究其关键技术基础上归纳了优化策略;最后介绍了脑肿瘤分割（BraTS）挑战,并结合挑战中所用方法展望了脑肿瘤分割领域未来的发展趋势。MRI脑肿瘤图像分割领域的研究已经取得了一些显著进展,尤其是深度学习的发展为该领域的研究提供了新的思路。但由于脑肿瘤在大小、形状和位置方面的高度变化,以及脑肿瘤图像数据有限且类别不平衡等问题,使得脑肿瘤图像分割仍是一个极具挑战的课题。由于分割过程缺乏可解释性和透明性,如何将全自动分割方法应用于临床试验,还需要进行深入研究。     

Skin segmentation using color pixel classification: analysis and comparison

This work presents a study of three important issues of the color pixel classification approach to skin segmentation: color representation, color quantization, and classification algorithm. Our analysis of several representative color spaces using the Bayesian classifier with the histogram technique shows that skin segmentation based on color pixel classification is largely unaffected by the choice of the color space. However, segmentation performance degrades when only chrominance channels are used in classification. Furthermore, we find that color quantization can be as low as 64 bins per channel, although higher histogram sizes give better segmentation performance. The Bayesian classifier with the histogram technique and the multilayer perceptron classifier are found to perform better compared to other tested classifiers, including three piecewise linear classifiers, three unimodal Gaussian classifiers, and a Gaussian mixture classifier.     

一种改进的SVM决策树及在遥感分类中的应用*

针对遥感图像分类问题提出了一种基于遗传算法和K近邻的SVM决策树方法。算法以基于类分布的类间分离性测度为准则,利用遗传算法对传统的SVM决策树进行优化,生成最优(较优)决策树。在分类阶段,对容易分的节点利用SVM进行分类,而对可分离性差的节点采用SVM和K近邻相结合的分类方法,最终实现多类别分类。实验结果表明,与传统的分类方法相比,该算法的实验效果较好,可有效地提高遥感图像的分类精度。     

Road intersection detection and classification using hierarchical SVM classifier

In this paper, a hierarchical multi-classification approach using support vector machines (SVM) has been proposed for road intersection detection and classification. Our method has two main steps. The first involves the road detection. For this purpose, an edge-based approach has been developed using the bird’s eye view image which is mapped from the perspective view of the road scene. Then, the concept of vertical spoke has been introduced for road boundary form extraction. The second step deals with the problem of road intersection detection and classification. It consists on building a hierarchical SVM classifier of the extracted road forms using the unbalanced decision tree architecture. Many measures are incorporated for good evaluation of the proposed solution. The obtained results are compared to those of Choi et al. (2007).     

TC-VGC: a tumor classification system using variations in genes' correlation

Classification analysis of microarray data is widely used to reveal biological features and to diagnose various diseases, including cancers. Most existing approaches improve the performance of learning models by removing most irrelevant and redundant genes from the data. They select the marker genes which are expressed differently in normal and tumor tissues. These techniques ignore the importance of the complex functional-dependencies between genes. In this paper, we propose a new method for cancer classification which uses distinguished variations of gene–gene correlation in two sample groups. The cancer specific genetic network composed of these gene pairs contains many literature-curated prostate cancer genes, and we were successful in identifying new candidate prostate cancer genes inferred by them. Furthermore, this method achieved a high accuracy with a small number of genes in cancer classification.     

Automatic clinical image segmentation using pathological modeling,PCA and SVM

Due to the presence of complicated topological and residual features, the segmentation of medical imagery is a difficult problem. In this paper, an automated approach to clinical image segmentation is presented. The processing of these images in our approach is divided into learning and segmentation stages to facilitate the application of principal component analysis with a support vector machine (SVM) classifier. During the initial learning stage, representative images are chosen to represent typical input images. These images are segmented using a variational level set method driven by a modeled energy functional designed to delineate the pathological characteristics of the images. Then a window-based feature extraction is applied to these segmented images. Principal component analysis is applied to these extracted features and the results are used to train an SVM classifier. After training the SVM, any time a clinical image needs to be segmented, it is simply classified with the trained SVM. By the proposed method, we take the strengths of both machine learning and the variational level set method while limiting their weaknesses to achieve automatic and fast clinical segmentation. To test the proposed system, both chest (thoracic) computed tomography (CT) scans (2D and 3D) and dental X-rays are used. Promising results are demonstrated and analyzed. The proposed method can be used during pre-processing for automatic computer-aided diagnosis.