Automated classification of maxillofacial cysts in cone beam CT images using contourlet transformation and Spherical Harmonics

被引:35
作者
Abdolali, Fatemeh [1 ]
Zoroofi, Reza Aghaeizadeh [1 ]
Otake, Yoshito [2 ]
Sato, Yoshinobu [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Tehran, Coll Engn, Sch Elect & Comp Engn, Control & Intelligent Proc Ctr Excellence, Tehran, Iran
[2] Nara Inst Sci & Technol NAIST, Grad Sch Informat Sci, Nara, Japan
关键词
Cone beam CT; Computer aided detection; Contourlet; Maxillofacial cyst; Spherical Harmonics; DIAGNOSIS;
D O I
10.1016/j.cmpb.2016.10.024
中图分类号
TP39 [计算机的应用];
学科分类号
081203 ; 0835 ;
摘要
Background and objective: Accurate detection of maxillofacial cysts is an essential step for diagnosis, monitoring and planning therapeutic intervention. Cysts can be of various sizes and shapes and existing detection methods lead to poor results. Customizing automatic detection systems to gain sufficient accuracy in clinical practice is highly challenging. For this purpose, integrating the engineering knowledge in efficient feature extraction is essential. Methods: This paper presents a novel framework for maxillofacial cysts detection. A hybrid methodology based on surface and texture information is introduced. The proposed approach consists of three main steps as follows: At first, each cystic lesion is segmented with high accuracy. Then, in the second and third steps, feature extraction and classification are performed. Contourlet and SPHARM coefficients are utilized as texture and shape features which are fed into the classifier. Two different classifiers are used in this study, i.e. support vector machine and sparse discriminant analysis. Generally SPHARM coefficients are estimated by the iterative residual fitting (IRF) algorithm which is based on stepwise regression method. In order to improve the accuracy of IRF estimation, a method based on extra orthogonalization is employed to reduce linear dependency. We have utilized a ground-truth dataset consisting of cone beam CT images of 96 patients, belonging to three maxillofacial cyst categories: radicular cyst, dentigerous cyst and keratocystic odontogenic tumor. Results: Using orthogonalized SPHARM, residual sum of squares is decreased which leads to a more accurate estimation. Analysis of the results based on statistical measures such as specificity, sensitivity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value is reported. The classification rate of 96.48% is achieved using sparse discriminant analysis and orthogonalized SPHARM features. Classification accuracy at least improved by 8.94% with respect to conventional features. Conclusions: This study demonstrated that our proposed methodology can improve the computer assisted diagnosis (CAD) performance by incorporating more discriminative features. Using orthogonalized SPHARM is promising in computerized cyst detection and may have a significant impact in future CAD systems. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:197 / 207
页数:11
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