An intelligent automated recognition system of abnormal structures in WCE images

  • Authors:
  • Piotr Szczypiński;Artur Klepaczko;Michałl Strzelecki

  • Affiliations:
  • Technical University of Lodz, Institute of Electronics, Lodz, Poland;Technical University of Lodz, Institute of Electronics, Lodz, Poland;Technical University of Lodz, Institute of Electronics, Lodz, Poland

  • Venue:
  • HAIS'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Hybrid artificial intelligent systems - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper we study the problem of classification of wireless capsule endoscopy images (WCE). We aim at developing a computer system that would aid in medical diagnosis by automatically detecting images containing pathological alterations in an 8-hour-longWCE video. We focus on three classes of pathologies - ulcers, bleedings and petechia - since they are typical for several diseases of the intestines. The main contribution is the performance evaluation of five feature selection and classification algorithms: minimization of classification error probability, Vector Supported Convex Hull, Support Vector Machines, Radial Basis Function and Perceptron-based Neural Networks, in application to WCE images. Experimental results show that none of the methods ouperforms the others in all tested pathology classes. Instead, a classifier ensemble can be built to accumulate evidence from multiple learning schemes, each specialized in recognition of a single type of abnormality.