Feature extraction for classification of thin-layer chromatography images

  • Authors:
  • António V. Sousa;Ana Maria Mendonça;Aurélio Campilho;Rui Aguiar;C. Sá Miranda

  • Affiliations:
  • Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, Porto, Portugal;Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, Porto, Portugal;Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, Porto, Portugal;Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Porto, Portugal;Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Porto, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • ICIAR'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Image Analysis and Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Thin-Layer Chromatography images are used to detect and identify the presence of specific oligosaccharides, expressed by the existence, at different positions, of bands in the gel image. 1D gaussian deconvolution, commonly used for band detection, does not produce good results due to the large curvature observed in the bands. To overcome this uncertainty on the band position, we propose a novel feature extraction methodology that allows an accurate modeling of curved bands. The features are used to classify the data into two different classes, to differentiate normal from pathologic cases. The paper presents the developed methodology together with the analysis and discussion of the results.