Discrimination of liver diseases from CT images based on Gabor filters

Chien Cheng Lee, Sz Han Chen, Hong Ming Tsai, Pau Choo Chung, Yu Chun Chiang

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Abstract

In this paper, a liver disease diagnosis based on Gabor filters is proposed. Three kinds of liver diseases are identified: cyst, hepatoma and cavernous hemangioma. The diagnosis scheme includes two steps: features extraction and classification. The features derived from Gabor filters are obtained from the ROIs among the normal and abnormal CT images. In the classification step the SVM classifier is used to discriminate the different liver disease types. Finally the receiver operating characteristic curve is employed to evaluate the performance of the diagnosis system. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated through experimental results on CT images including 76 liver cysts, 30 hepatomas, and 40 cavernous hemangiomas. From the results, we can observe that the discrimination rate of cyst is higher than the other diseases, and the classification accuracy decreases slightly between cavernous hemangiomas and hepatomas. However, a normal region can be discriminated from all of these diseases entirely.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 19th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2006
Pages203-206
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Event19th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2006 - Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Duration: 2006 Jun 222006 Jun 23

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
Volume2006
ISSN (Print)1063-7125

Other

Other19th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2006
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySalt Lake City, UT
Period06-06-2206-06-23

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
  • Computer Science Applications

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