Differentiating Honeycombed Images from Normal HRCT Lung Images

Aamir Saeed MALIK  Tae-Sun CHOI 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems  Vol.E92-D  No.5  pp.1218-1221
Publication Date: 2009/05/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Biological Engineering
Keyword: 
segmentationextractionfeature selectionwavelet energyclassificationK-means clustering

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Summary: 
A classification method is presented for differentiating honeycombed High Resolution Computed Tomographic (HRCT) images from normal HRCT images. For successful classification of honeycombed HRCT images, a complete set of methods and algorithms is described from segmentation to extraction to feature selection to classification. Wavelet energy is selected as a feature for classification using K-means clustering. Test data of 20 patients are used to validate the method.