Title
Idiopathic interstitial pneumonias and emphysema: detection and classification using a texture-discriminative approach
Abstract
Our study aims at developing a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system for fully automatic detection and classification of pathological lung parenchyma patterns in idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIP) and emphysema using multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT). The proposed CAD system is based on three-dimensional (3-D) mathematical morphology, texture and fuzzy logic analysis, and can be divided into four stages: (1) a multi-resolution decomposition scheme based on a 3-D morphological filter was exploited to discriminate the lung region patterns at different analysis scales. (2) An additional spatial lung partitioning based on the lung tissue texture was introduced to reinforce the spatial separation between patterns extracted at the same resolution level in the decomposition pyramid. Then, (3) a hierarchic tree structure was exploited to describe the relationship between patterns at different resolution levels, and for each pattern, six fuzzy membership functions were established for assigning a probability of association with a normal tissue or a pathological target. Finally, (4) a decision step exploiting the fuzzy-logic assignments selects the target class of each lung pattern among the following categories: normal (N), emphysema (EM), fibrosis/honeycombing (FHC), and ground glass (GDG). According to a preliminary evaluation on an extended database, the proposed method can overcome the drawbacks of a previously developed approach and achieve higher sensitivity and specificity.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1117/12.911350
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
MDCT,interstitial lung disease,idiopathic interstitial pneumonias,emphysema,texture-based partitioning,fuzzy logic,hierarchic decomposition,classification
CAD,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Mathematical morphology,Honeycombing,Computer-aided diagnosis,Fuzzy logic,Tree structure,Artificial intelligence,Idiopathic interstitial pneumonia,Discriminative model,Physics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8315
0277-786X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Catalin Fetita1167.84
Kuang-Che Chang-Chien2372.85
py brillet300.34
francoise preteux4576.97
Ruey-Feng Chang539534.88