Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4221668 | Clinical Imaging | 2013 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
This article presents a novel approach for the automatic detection of lesions and selection of features on chest radiographs. We have illustrated the importance of accurate segmentation, which is based on spatial relationships between the lung structures, as a preprocessing step in a Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) scheme. Then, three suitable combinations of features have been identified using the forward stepwise selection method from the original images and their transformed ones. Experimental results show that our segmentation approach and the suppression of skeletal structures improve the detection accuracy. The selected features can describe efficiently different kinds of chest lesions.
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Authors
Donia Ben Hassen, Hassen Taleb,