论文信息 - Combination of texture and shape features to detect pulmonary abnormalities in digital chest X-rays

Combination of texture and shape features to detect pulmonary abnormalities in digital chest X-rays

PurposeTo improve detection of pulmonary and pleural abnormalities caused by pneumonia or tuberculosis (TB) in digital chest X-rays (CXRs).MethodsA method was developed and tested by combining shape and texture features to classify CXRs into two categories: TB and non-TB cases. Based on observation that radiologist interpretation is typically comparative: between left and right lung fields, the algorithm uses shape features to describe the overall geometrical characteristics of the lung fields and texture features to represent image characteristics inside them.ResultsOur algorithm was evaluated on two different datasets containing tuberculosis and pneumonia cases.ConclusionsUsing our proposed algorithm, we were able to increase the overall performance, measured as area under the (ROC) curve (AUC) by 2.4 % over our previous work.

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