Self-organizing neural networks in the characterization of interstitial lung diseases in chest radiographs. / Redes neurais auto-organizáveis na caracterização de lesões intersticiais de pulmão em radiografia de tórax

AUTOR(ES)

Paulo Eduardo Ambrosio

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

The technological development provides an improvement in the quality of life due to easiness, speed and flexibility in the access to the information. In the biomedical area, the technology is admitted as an important allied, allowing the fast development of methods and techniques that assist the professional in the health care. Recent advances in the computerized analysis of medical images contribute for the precocious diagnosis of a series of diseases. In this work a methodology for the development of a computational system for characterization of patterns in pulmonary images, based in techniques of artificial neural networks is presented. In the study, has searched for the verification the use of self-organizing neural networks as a feature extraction and dimensionality reduction tool of chest radiographs, willing to characterize interstitial lung disease. For the dimensionality reduction and feature extraction, an algorithm based on Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) was implemented, with some variations, getting a reduction of about 3 million pixels that it composes an image, for 240 elements. For the pattern classification, a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) was used, validated with the leave-one-out methodology. With a database containing 79 samples of linear pattern, 37 samples of nodular pattern, 30 samples of mixed pattern, and 72 samples of normal pattern, the classifier provided an average result of 89.5% of right classification, with 100% of right classification for linear pattern, 67.5% for nodular pattern, 63.3% for mixed pattern, and 100% for normal pattern. The results prove the validity of the methodology.

ASSUNTO(S)

imagens médicas computer-aided diagnosis medical images interstitial lung disease artificial neural networks redes neurais artificiais lesões intersticiais pulmonares. extração de características diagnóstico auxiliado por computador feature extraction

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