DETECTION OF NORMALITY/PATHOLOGY ON CHEST RADIOGRAPHS USING LBP

Juan Manuel Carrillo-de-Gea, Ginés García-Mateos

2010

Abstract

Since the discovery of X-rays and their applications, medical imaging has been a great help for radiologists in the diagnosis of diseases. In recent years, there has been a great effort in the computer vision community in the research of systems for the analysis and extraction of useful information from medical images. In this scenario, we have designed, implemented and validated a novel method to detect normality/pathology in chest radiographs, which constitutes the core of a computer-aided detection (CADe) system. Although the problem addressed is very complex and little explored, our approach is completely automatic, starting from the location of areas of interest using template matching techniques. The main novelty of our contribution is the application of a transformation known as local binary patterns (LBP) to these areas. LBP histograms are then used as input features for a classification system, which is ultimately responsible for the decision of normality/pathology. The results of our preliminary experiments are quite promising. With success rates in the best cases close to 90%, we believe that increased performance could be obtained with bigger training sets and more advanced classification systems, which will make these systems to be fully viable in the near future.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Manuel Carrillo-de-Gea J. and García-Mateos G. (2010). DETECTION OF NORMALITY/PATHOLOGY ON CHEST RADIOGRAPHS USING LBP . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Bioinformatics - Volume 1: BIOINFORMATICS, (BIOSTEC 2010) ISBN 978-989-674-019-1, pages 167-172. DOI: 10.5220/0002747001670172

in Bibtex Style

@conference{bioinformatics10,
author={Juan Manuel Carrillo-de-Gea and Ginés García-Mateos},
title={DETECTION OF NORMALITY/PATHOLOGY ON CHEST RADIOGRAPHS USING LBP},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Bioinformatics - Volume 1: BIOINFORMATICS, (BIOSTEC 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={167-172},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002747001670172},
isbn={978-989-674-019-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Bioinformatics - Volume 1: BIOINFORMATICS, (BIOSTEC 2010)
TI - DETECTION OF NORMALITY/PATHOLOGY ON CHEST RADIOGRAPHS USING LBP
SN - 978-989-674-019-1
AU - Manuel Carrillo-de-Gea J.
AU - García-Mateos G.
PY - 2010
SP - 167
EP - 172
DO - 10.5220/0002747001670172