Computer-assisted pit-pattern classification in different wavelet domains for supporting dignity assessment of colonic polyps

  • Authors:
  • Michael Häfner;Roland Kwitt;Andreas Uhl;Friedrich Wrba;Alfred Gangl;Andreas Vécsei

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Vienna Medical University, 1090 Vienna, Austria;Department of Computer Sciences, University of Salzburg, Jakob-Haringer Strasse 2, 5020 Salzburg, Austria;Department of Computer Sciences, University of Salzburg, Jakob-Haringer Strasse 2, 5020 Salzburg, Austria;Department of Clinical Pathology, Vienna Medical University, 1090 Vienna, Austria;Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Vienna Medical University, 1090 Vienna, Austria;St. Anna Children's Hospital, 1090 Vienna, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we show that zoom-endoscopy images can be well classified according to the pit-pattern classification scheme by using texture-analysis methods in different wavelet domains. We base our approach on three different variants of the wavelet transform and propose that the color channels of the RGB and LAB color model are an important source for computing image features with high discriminative power. Color-channel information is incorporated by either using simple feature vector concatenation and cross-cooccurrence matrices in the wavelet domain. Our experimental results based on k-nearest neighbor classification and forward feature selection exemplify the advantages of the different wavelet transforms and show that color-image analysis is superior to grayscale-image analysis regarding our medical image classification problem.