Classification of interstitial lung disease patterns with topological texture features

Markus B. Huber; Mahesh Nagarajan; Gerda Leinsinger; Lawrence A. Ray; Axel Wismüller

doi:10.1117/12.844318

9 March 2010 Classification of interstitial lung disease patterns with topological texture features

Markus B. Huber, Mahesh Nagarajan, Gerda Leinsinger, Lawrence A. Ray, Axel Wismüller

Proceedings Volume 7624, Medical Imaging 2010: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 762410 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.844318
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Topological texture features were compared in their ability to classify morphological patterns known as 'honeycombing' that are considered indicative for the presence of fibrotic interstitial lung diseases in high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) images. For 14 patients with known occurrence of honey-combing, a stack of 70 axial, lung kernel reconstructed images were acquired from HRCT chest exams. A set of 241 regions of interest of both healthy and pathological (89) lung tissue were identified by an experienced radiologist. Texture features were extracted using six properties calculated from gray-level co-occurrence matrices (GLCM), Minkowski Dimensions (MDs), and three Minkowski Functionals (MFs, e.g. MF.euler). A k-nearest-neighbor (k-NN) classifier and a Multilayer Radial Basis Functions Network (RBFN) were optimized in a 10-fold cross-validation for each texture vector, and the classification accuracy was calculated on independent test sets as a quantitative measure of automated tissue characterization. A Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used to compare two accuracy distributions and the significance thresholds were adjusted for multiple comparisons by the Bonferroni correction. The best classification results were obtained by the MF features, which performed significantly better than all the standard GLCM and MD features (p < 0.005) for both classifiers. The highest accuracy was found for MF.euler (97.5%, 96.6%; for the k-NN and RBFN classifier, respectively). The best standard texture features were the GLCM features 'homogeneity' (91.8%, 87.2%) and 'absolute value' (90.2%, 88.5%). The results indicate that advanced topological texture features can provide superior classification performance in computer-assisted diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases when compared to standard texture analysis methods.

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Markus B. Huber, Mahesh Nagarajan, Gerda Leinsinger, Lawrence A. Ray, and Axel Wismüller "Classification of interstitial lung disease patterns with topological texture features", Proc. SPIE 7624, Medical Imaging 2010: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 762410 (9 March 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.844318

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