Biomedical image representation and classification using an entropy weighted probabilistic concept feature space

Md Mahmudur Rahman; Sameer K. Antani; Dinna Demner-Fushman; George R. Thoma

doi:10.1117/12.2043911

19 March 2014 Biomedical image representation and classification using an entropy weighted probabilistic concept feature space

Md Mahmudur Rahman, Sameer K. Antani, Dinna Demner-Fushman, George R. Thoma

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Proceedings Volume 9039, Medical Imaging 2014: PACS and Imaging Informatics: Next Generation and Innovations; 903908 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043911
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach to biomedical image representation for classification by mapping image regions to local concepts and represent images in a weighted entropy based probabilistic feature space. In a heterogeneous collection of medical images, it is possible to identify specific local patches that are perceptually and/or semantically distinguishable. The variation of these patches is effectively modeled as local concepts based on their low-level features as inputs to a multi-class SVM classifier. The probability of occurrence of each concept in an image is measured by spreading and normalizing each region’s class confidence score based on the probabilistic output of the classifier. Furthermore, importance of concepts is measured as Shannon entropy based on pixel values of image patches and used to refine the feature vector to overcome the limitation of the “TF-IDF”- based weighting. In addition, to take the localization information of concepts into consideration, each image each segmented into five overlapping regions and local concept feature vectors are generated from those regions to finally obtain a combined semi-global feature vector. A systematic evaluation of image classification on two biomedical image data sets demonstrates improvement of more than 10% for the proposed feature representation approach compared to the commonly used low level and visual word-based approaches.

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Md Mahmudur Rahman, Sameer K. Antani, Dinna Demner-Fushman, and George R. Thoma "Biomedical image representation and classification using an entropy weighted probabilistic concept feature space", Proc. SPIE 9039, Medical Imaging 2014: PACS and Imaging Informatics: Next Generation and Innovations, 903908 (19 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2043911

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