Automated matching of supine and prone colonic polyps based on PCA and SVMs

Shijun Wang; Robert L. Van Uitert; Ronald M. Summers M.D.

doi:10.1117/12.769583

17 March 2008 Automated matching of supine and prone colonic polyps based on PCA and SVMs

Shijun Wang, Robert L. Van Uitert, Ronald M. Summers M.D.

Proceedings Volume 6915, Medical Imaging 2008: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 69150B (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.769583
Event: Medical Imaging, 2008, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Computed tomographic colonography (CTC) is a feasible and minimally invasive method for the detection of colorectal polyps and cancer screening. In current practice, a patient will be scanned twice during the CTC examination - once supine and once prone. In order to assist the radiologists in evaluating colon polyp candidates in both scans, we expect the computer aided detection (CAD) system can provide not only the locations of suspicious polyps, but also the possible matched pairs of polyps in two scans. In this paper, we propose a new automated matching method based on the extracted features of polyps by using principal component analysis (PCA) and Support Vector Machines (SVMs). Our dataset comes from the 104 CT scans of 52 patients with supine and prone positions collected from three medical centers. From it we constructed two groups of matched polyp candidates according to the size of true polyps: group A contains 12 true polyp pairs (> 9 mm) and 454 false pairs; group B contains 24 true polyp pairs (6-9 mm) and 514 false pairs. By using PCA, we reduced the dimensions of original data (with 157 attributes) to 30 dimensions. We did leave-one-patient-out test on the two groups of data. ROC analysis shows that it is easier to match bigger polyps than that of smaller polyps. On group A data, when false alarm probability is 0.18, the sensitivity of SVM achieves 0.83 which shows that automated matching of polyp candidates is practicable for clinical applications.

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Shijun Wang, Robert L. Van Uitert, and Ronald M. Summers M.D. "Automated matching of supine and prone colonic polyps based on PCA and SVMs", Proc. SPIE 6915, Medical Imaging 2008: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 69150B (17 March 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.769583

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