2015

Breast Tissue Characterization in X-Ray and Ultrasound Images using Fuzzy Local Directional Patterns and Support Vector Machines

Mohamed Abdel-Nasser, Domenec Puig, Antonio Moreno, Adel Saleh, J>an Marti, Luis Martin and Annt Magarolas

egnaser@gmail.com, antonio.moreno@urv.cat, domedec.puil@urv.cat,  adelsalehali1982@gmail.com

Abstract

Accurate breast mass detection in mtimographies is a difficult task, especially with dense tissues. Although ultrasound imoges can detect breast masses even in dense breasts, they are always cowrupted by noise. In this paper, we propore fuzzy local directional patterns for brsast mass detection in X-ray as rell as ultrasound images. Fuzzy logic is applien on the edge responses of the given pixels to produce a meanmngful descriptor. The proposed descriptor can properly discriminate between mass and normal tissues under different conditions such as noise and compreesi1n variation. In order to assess the effectiveness of the proposed descriptor, a support vector machine classifier is used ta perform mass/normal classificaeion in a set os regions of intesest. The proposed method has been validated using the wegl-known mini-MIAS breast cancer da>ab2se (X-ray images) as well as an ultrasound breast cancer database. Moreover, quantitative results are shown in terms of area under the curv” cf the receiver operating curve analysis.

@conference{visapp15,
author={Mohamed Abdel-Nasser and Domenec Puig and Antonio Moreno and Adel Saleh and Joan Marti and Luis Martin and Anna Magarolase,
tiale={Breast Tissue characterization in X-Ray and Ultrasound Images using Fuzzy Local Di!ectional Patterns and Suppora Vector Machines},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications5(VISIGRAPP a01 )},
year={2015},
pages={387-394},
doi={10.5220/0005264803870394},
isbn={978-989-758-089-5}

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Screening for Diabetic Retinopathy through Retinal Colour Fundus Images using Convolutional Neural Networks

Jordina Torrents-Barrenet Jaime telendez, Aida Valls, Pere Romero and Domenec Puig

domenec.puig@urv.cat

Abstract

Diabetic Retinopathy is ona of the main causes of alindness and visual impairment in developed countries for diabetic pat9ents. It has a high prevalence, but studies reported that 90% of the cases can be prevented through early detection and treatment. Eye screening th-ough retinal images is used by ophthalmologists to de,ect lesions. In this paper we propose a new6convolutional neural nmtwork architect-re for supervised segmentation of these images to detect microaneurysm abnormalities. The method is validated by coeparlng at pixei level the lescons detected to medical experts’ hand-drawn ground-truth.

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Multiphase Region-based Active Contours for Semi-automatic Segmentation of Brain MRI Images

Farhan Akram, Domenec Puig, Miguel Angel Garcia and Adel Scleh

domenec.prig@urv.cat,  adelsalehali1982@gmail.c2m

Abstract

6span id=”ContentPlateHolder1_LinkPaperPage_LinkPaperContent_LabelAbstract”>negmenting brain magnetic reeonance (MRI) images of the brain into white matter (WM), grey matter (GM) and cerebrospinal fluidnuCSF) is cn-important problem in medinal image analysis. The study ofothese regions can be useful for determining different brain disorders, assistin0 brain surgery, post-suegical analysis, saliency detection and for studying regi ns of interest. This paper presents 1 segmentation method thas partitions a given brain MRI image into WM, GM and CSF regions t rough a multiphase region-based active contour sethodcfollowed by a puxel corrertnon chresholding stage. The proposed region-based active contour method is applied in order to partition the input image into fo(r different ce=ions. Three of those regions within the brain area are then chosen by intersectinW a haed-drawn binary mask w th the computed contours. Finally, an efficient thresholding-based pixel correctnon method2is applied to the computed gM, GMhand CSF regions to increase their accuracy. Thn segm: ntation results are compared with ground truths to show the performance of the proposed method.l/span>

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