Automatic detection of lesions in lung regions that are segmented using spatial relations

Computer-aided detection in chest radiography based on artificial intelligence: a survey

As the most common examination tool in medical practice, chest radiography has important clinical value in the diagnosis of disease. Thus, the automatic detection of chest disease based on chest radiography has become one of the hot topics in medical imaging research. Based on the clinical applications, the study conducts a comprehensive survey on computer-aided detection (CAD) systems, and especially focuses on the artificial intelligence technology applied in chest radiography. The paper presents several common chest X-ray datasets and briefly introduces general image preprocessing procedures, such as contrast enhancement and segmentation, and bone suppression techniques that are applied to chest radiography. Then, the CAD system in the detection of specific disease (pulmonary nodules, tuberculosis, and interstitial lung diseases) and multiple diseases is described, focusing on the basic principles of the algorithm, the data used in the study, the evaluation measures, and the results. Finally, the paper summarizes the CAD system in chest radiography based on artificial intelligence and discusses the existing problems and trends.

A Hybrid Fuzzy-SVM classifier for automated lung diseases diagnosis

A novel scheme for lesions classification in chest radiographs is presented in this paper. Features are extracted from detected lesions from lung regions which are segmented automatically. Then, we needed to eliminate redundant variables from the subset extracted because they affect the performance of the classification. We used Stepwise Forward Selection and Principal Components Analysis. Then, we obtained two subsets of features. We finally experimented the Stepwise/FCM/SVM classification and the PCA/FCM/SVM one. The ROC curves show that the hybrid PCA/FCM/SVM has relatively better accuracy and remarkable higher efficiency. Experimental results suggest that this approach may be helpful to radiologists for reading chest images.