Title
Active relearning for robust supervised classification of pulmonary emphysema
Abstract
Radiologists are adept at recognizing the appearance of lung parenchymal abnormalities in CT scans. However, the inconsistent differential diagnosis, due to subjective aggregation, mandates supervised classification. Towards optimizing Emphysema classification, we introduce a physician-in-the-loop feedback approach in order to minimize uncertainty in the selected training samples. Using multi-view inductive learning with the training samples, an ensemble of Support Vector Machine (SVM) models, each based on a specific pair-wise dissimilarity metric, was constructed in less than six seconds. In the active relearning phase, the ensemble-expert label conflicts were resolved by an expert. This just-in-time feedback with unoptimized SVMs yielded 15% increase in classification accuracy and 25% reduction in the number of support vectors. The generality of relearning was assessed in the optimized parameter space of six different classifiers across seven dissimilarity metrics. The resultant average accuracy improved to 21%. The co-operative feedback method proposed here could enhance both diagnostic and staging throughput efficiency in chest radiology practice.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1117/12.911648
Proceedings of SPIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Emphysema,HRCT,supervised classification,SVM,active relearning
Pattern recognition,Support vector machine,Artificial intelligence,Medical diagnostics,Machine learning,Physics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8315
0277-786X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sushravya Raghunath112.85
Rajagopalan Srinivasan268379.21
Ronald A Karwoski3247.43
Brian J Bartholmai43311.91
Richard A. Robb5645238.12