Automatic clinical image segmentation using pathological modeling, PCA and SVM

Authors:
Shuo Li;Thomas Fevens;Adam Krzyak;Song Li
Affiliations:
Medical Imaging Group, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal Québec, Canada, H3G 1M8;Medical Imaging Group, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal Québec, Canada, H3G 1M8;Medical Imaging Group, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal Québec, Canada, H3G 1M8;School of Stomatology, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, PR China
Venue:
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Due to the presence of complicated topological and residual features, the segmentation of medical imagery is a difficult problem. In this paper, an automated approach to clinical image segmentation is presented. The processing of these images in our approach is divided into learning and segmentation stages to facilitate the application of principal component analysis with a support vector machine (SVM) classifier. During the initial learning stage, representative images are chosen to represent typical input images. These images are segmented using a variational level set method driven by a modeled energy functional designed to delineate the pathological characteristics of the images. Then a window-based feature extraction is applied to these segmented images. Principal component analysis is applied to these extracted features and the results are used to train an SVM classifier. After training the SVM, any time a clinical image needs to be segmented, it is simply classified with the trained SVM. By the proposed method, we take the strengths of both machine learning and the variational level set method while limiting their weaknesses to achieve automatic and fast clinical segmentation. To test the proposed system, both chest (thoracic) computed tomography (CT) scans (2D and 3D) and dental X-rays are used. Promising results are demonstrated and analyzed. The proposed method can be used during pre-processing for automatic computer-aided diagnosis.