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Breast cancer remains a critical global health concern, given the crucial role of early detection in achieving successful treatment outcomes. By harnessing the power of deep learning, our proposed methodology aims to discern intricate patterns and nuances in breast tissue textures, enabling robust discrimination between benign and malignant tumors. We start to search for solutions using two directions: an intelligent system that uses Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) over the images and another model that uses CNNs over textural features extracted from mammograms. This research comes as an extension to our previous work on the Classification of mammograms into benign and malignant types using textural features and shallow classifiers. While these methods provided valuable insights, we sought to explore the future of CNNs in increasing the accuracy of breast cancer detection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chickpea wilt is a widespread agricultural disease that affects production worldwide every year. Rapid and accurate detection of the disease is desirable, but is difficult using traditional methods. Therefore, it is necessary to detect the disease using automatic, rapid, reliable, and simple methods before it completely damages the plant. Herein, we investigate the applicability of machine learning-based texture analysis methods to determine the severity level of Fusarium wilt in chickpea. Various procedures, such as image annotation, augmentation, resizing, and color conversion using different color spaces (RGB, HSV, and Lab*), were performed to develop the model. To perform texture feature extraction, the Gray-Level Run-Length Matrix (GLRLM) and the Gray-Level Occurrence Matrix (GLCM) feature extraction methods were used. To avoid local minima, Bayesian optimization was applied, while to train and test the effectiveness of the proposed model, 15000 images (70–20-10 ratio for training, validation and testing) were used. Finally, multi-class classification models were developed using image classification methods such as K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Neural Networks. The proposed GLRLM-HSV based KNN model performed well in determining the severity level of fusarium wilt of chickpea among five different severity levels, with an accuracy of 94.5%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Background and Objective Dental panoramic radiographs are utilized in computer-aided image analysis, which detects abnormal tissue masses by analyzing the produced image capacity to recognize patterns of intensity fluctuations. This is done to reduce the need for invasive biopsies for arriving to a diagnosis. The aim of the current study was to examine and compare the accuracy of several texture analysis techniques, such as Grey Level Run Length Matrix (GLRLM), Grey Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM), and wavelet analysis in recognizing dental cyst, tumor, and abscess lesions. Materials & Methods The current retrospective study retrieved a total of 172 dental panoramic radiographs with lesion including dental cysts, tumors, or abscess. Radiographs that failed to meet technical criteria for diagnostic quality (such as significant overlap of teeth, a diffuse image, or distortion) were excluded from the sample. The methodology adopted in the study comprised of five stages. At first, the radiographs are improved, and the area of interest was segmented manually. A variety of feature extraction techniques, such GLCM, GLRLM, and the wavelet analysis were used to gather information from the area of interest. Later, the lesions were classified as a cyst, tumor, abscess, or using a support vector machine (SVM) classifier. Eventually, the data was transferred into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) (version 21) was used to conduct the statistical analysis. Initially descriptive statistics were computed. For inferential analysis, statistical significance was determined by a p value

This paper describes the Classification of bulk OCT retinal fundus images of normal and diabetic retinopathy using the Intensity histogram features, Gray Level Co-Occurrence Matrix (GLCM), and the Gray Level Run Length Matrix (GLRLM) feature extraction techniques. Three features—Intensity histogram features, GLCM, and GLRLM were taken and, that features were compared fairly. A total of 301 bulk OCT retinal fundus color images were taken for two different varieties which are normal and diabetic retinopathy. For classification and feature extraction, a filtered image output based on a fourth-order PDE is used. Using OCT retinal fundus images, the most effective feature extraction method is identified.

The highly infectious and mutating COVID-19, known as the novel coronavirus, poses a substantial threat to both human health and the global economy. Detecting COVID-19 early presents a challenge due to its resemblance to pneumonia. However, distinguishing between the two is critical for saving lives. Chest X-rays, empowered by machine learning classifiers and ensembles, prove effective in identifying multiclass pneumonia in the lungs, leveraging textural characteristics such as GLCM and GLRLM. These textural features are instilled into the classifiers and ensembles within the domain of machine learning. This article explores the multiclass categorization of X-ray images across four categories: COVID-19-impacted, bacterial pneumonia-affected, viral pneumonia-affected, and normal lungs. The classification employs Random Forest, Support Vector Machine, K-Nearest Neighbor, LGBM, and XGBoost. Random Forest and LGBM achieve an impressive accuracy of 92.4% in identifying GLCM features. The network's performance is evaluated based on accuracy, precision, sensitivity and F1-score. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background and Objective: Dental panoramic radiographs are utilized in computer-aided image analysis, which detects abnormal tissue masses by analyzing the produced image capacity to recognize patterns of intensity fluctuations. This is done to reduce the need for invasive biopsies for arriving to a diagnosis. The aim of the current study was to examine and compare the accuracy of several texture analysis techniques, such as Grey Level Run Length Matrix (GLRLM), Grey Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM), and wavelet analysis in recognizing dental cyst, tumor, and abscess lesions. Materials & Methods: The current retrospective study retrieved a total of 172 dental panoramic radiographs with lesion including dental cysts, tumors, or abscess. Radiographs that failed to meet technical criteria for diagnostic quality (such as significant overlap of teeth, a diffuse image, or distortion) were excluded from the sample. The methodology adopted in the study comprised of five stages. At first, the radiographs are improved, and the area of interest was segmented manually. A variety of feature extraction techniques, such GLCM, GLRLM, and the wavelet analysis were used to gather information from the area of interest. Later, the lesions were classified as a cyst, tumor, abscess, or using a support vector machine (SVM) classifier. Eventually, the data was transferred into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) (version 21) was used to conduct the statistical analysis. Initially descriptive statistics were computed. For inferential analysis, statistical significance was determined by a p value < 0.05. The sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy were used to find the significant difference between assessed and actual diagnosis. Results: The findings demonstrate that 98% accuracy was achieved using GLCM, 91% accuracy using Wavelet analysis & 95% accuracy using GLRLM in distinguishing between dental cyst, tumor, and abscess lesions. The area under curve (AUC) number indicates that GLCM achieves a high degree of accuracy. The results achieved excellent accuracy (98%) using GLCM. Conclusion: The GLCM features can be used for further research. After improving the performance and training, it can support routine histological diagnosis and can assist the clinicians in arriving at accurate and spontaneous treatment plans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Simple Summary: Glioblastoma (GBM) is one of the most common malignant primary brain tumors. The gold standard of cancer diagnosis relies on a medical technologist and a pathologist for feature-based analysis of hematoxylin and eosin-stained slides. To improve the efficiency of GBM diagnosis, an artificial intelligence model was built based on the TCGA-GBM dataset, and was deployed on an independent dataset collected locally. The support vector machine model showed excellent accuracy with very good sensitivity and specificity. It could potentially be used for GBM diagnosis and future clinical application. Background: Glioblastoma (GBM) is one of the most common malignant primary brain tumors, which accounts for 60–70% of all gliomas. Conventional diagnosis and the decision of post-operation treatment plan for glioblastoma is mainly based on the feature-based qualitative analysis of hematoxylin and eosin-stained (H&E) histopathological slides by both an experienced medical technologist and a pathologist. The recent development of digital whole slide scanners makes AI-based histopathological image analysis feasible and helps to diagnose cancer by accurately counting cell types and/or quantitative analysis. However, the technology available for digital slide image analysis is still very limited. This study aimed to build an image feature-based computer model using histopathology whole slide images to differentiate patients with glioblastoma (GBM) from healthy control (HC). Method: Two independent cohorts of patients were used. The first cohort was composed of 262 GBM patients of the Cancer Genome Atlas Glioblastoma Multiform Collection (TCGA-GBM) dataset from the cancer imaging archive (TCIA) database. The second cohort was composed of 60 GBM patients collected from a local hospital. Also, a group of 60 participants with no known brain disease were collected. All the H&E slides were collected. Thirty-three image features (22 GLCM and 11 GLRLM) were retrieved from the tumor volume delineated by medical technologist on H&E slides. Five machine-learning algorithms including decision-tree (DT), extreme-boost (EB), support vector machine (SVM), random forest (RF), and linear model (LM) were used to build five models using the image features extracted from the first cohort of patients. Models built were deployed using the selected key image features for GBM diagnosis from the second cohort (local patients) as model testing, to identify and verify key image features for GBM diagnosis. Results: All five machine learning algorithms demonstrated excellent performance in GBM diagnosis and achieved an overall accuracy of 100% in the training and validation stage. A total of 12 GLCM and 3 GLRLM image features were identified and they showed a significant difference between the normal and the GBM image. However, only the SVM model maintained its excellent performance in the deployment of the models using the independent local cohort, with an accuracy of 93.5%, sensitivity of 86.95%, and specificity of 99.73%. Conclusion: In this study, we have identified 12 GLCM and 3 GLRLM image features which can aid the GBM diagnosis. Among the five models built, the SVM model proposed in this study demonstrated excellent accuracy with very good sensitivity and specificity. It could potentially be used for GBM diagnosis and future clinical application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cancer is a disease that is widely known and suffered by people in various countries. One type of cancer classified as the third contributor to death is colon cancer, with a mortality rate of 9.4%. Colon cancer is cancer that attacks the large intestine or rectum. Classification of colon cancer promptly is necessary to carry out appropriate treatment to reduce the death rate from colon cancer. This study uses the ANFIS method to classify colon cancer with its texture analysis using GLRLM. In addition, the evaluation model used in this study is the K-fold cross-validation method. This research uses colon cancer histopathological image data, which is 10000 image data divided into 2 classes, namely 5000 benign class and 5000 adenocarcinoma class. The best result in this study is when using k = 5 at an orientation angle of 135°, the accuracy value is 85.57%, sensitivity is 91.72%, and specificity is 80.55%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ObjectivesTo determine if radiomics analysis based on preoperative computed tomography (CT) can predict early postoperative recurrence of giant cell tumor of bone (GCTB) in the spine.MethodsIn a retrospective review, 62 patients with pathologically confirmed spinal GCTB from March 2008 to February 2018, with a minimum follow-up of 24 months, were identified. The mean follow-up was 73.7 months (range, 28.7-152.1 months). The clinical information including age, gender, lesion location, multi-vertebral involvement, and surgical methods, were obtained. CT images acquired before the operation were retrieved for radiomics analysis. For each case, the tumor regions of interest (ROI) was manually outlined, and a total of 107 radiomics features were extracted. The features were selected via the sequential selection process by using the support vector machine (SVM), then used to construct classification models with Gaussian kernels. The differentiation between recurrence and non-recurrence groups was evaluated by ROC analysis, using 10-fold cross-validation.ResultsOf the 62 patients, 17 had recurrence with a recurrence rate of 27.4%. None of the clinical information was significantly different between the two groups. Patients receiving curettage had a higher recurrence rate (6/16 = 37.5%) compared to patients receiving TES (6/26 = 23.1%) or intralesional spondylectomy (5/20 = 25%). The final radiomics model was built using 10 selected features, which achieved an accuracy of 89% with AUC of 0.78.ConclusionsThe radiomics model developed based on pre-operative CT can achieve a high accuracy to predict the recurrence of spinal GCTB. Patients who have a high risk of early recurrence should be treated more aggressively to minimize recurrence.

Colposcopy plays a vital role in detecting cervical cancer. Artificial intelligence-based methods have been implemented in the literature for the classification of colposcopy images. However, there is a need for a more effective method that can accurately classify cervigrams. In this paper, ColpoClassifier, a hybrid framework for the classification of cervigrams, is proposed, which consists of feature extraction followed by classification. This paper uses a Gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM), a Gray-level run length matrix (GLRLM), and a histogram of gradients (HOG) for feature extraction. These features are combined to form a feature fusion vector of the form GLCM + GLRLM + HOG. The different machine learning classifiers are used for classification by using individual feature vectors as well as feature fusion vectors. The dataset used in this paper is compiled by downloading images from the WHO website. Two variants of this dataset are created, Dataset-I contains images of the aceto-whitening effect, green filter, iodine application, and raw cervigram while Dataset-II only contains images of the aceto-whitening effect. This paper presents the classification performance on all kinds of images with the individual as well as hybrid feature fusion vector and concludes that hybrid feature fusion vectors on aceto-whitening images have given the best results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mammography is the most preferred method for breast cancer screening. In this study, computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems were used to improve the image quality of mammography images and to detect suspicious areas. The main contribution of this study is to reveal the optimal combination of various pre-processing algorithms to enable better interpretation and classification of mammography images because pre-processing algorithms significantly affect the accuracy of segmentation and classification methods. In this study, the effect of combinations of different preprocessing methods in differentiating benign and malignant breast lesions was investigated. All image processing algorithms used for lesion detection were used in the mini-MIAS database. In the first step, label information and pectoral muscle resulting from the acquisition of mammography images were removed. In the second step, median filter (MF), contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE), and unsharp masking (USM) algorithms with different combinations of the resolution and visibility of images are increased. In the third step, suspicious regions are extracted from the mammograms using the k-means clustering technique. Then, features were extracted from the obtained ROIs. Finally, feature datasets were classified as normal/abnormal, and benign/malign (two class classification) using Machine Learning algorithms. Test performance measures of the classification methods were examined. In both classifications made in the study, lower classification performance values were obtained when the CLAHE algorithm was used alone as a pre-processing method compared to other pre-processing combinations. When the median filter and unsharp masking algorithms are added to the CLAHE algorithm, the performance of the classification methods has increased. In terms of classification success, Support Vector Machines, Random Forest, and Neural Networks showed the best performance. It was found by comparing the performances of the classification methods that different preprocessing algorithms were effective in detecting the presence of breast lesions and distinguishing benign and malignant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Diabetic retinopathy is one of the significant investigated topics in the last few years since blindness could be the outcome of unchecked and serious diabetic retinopathy cases. Detection and recognition of DR at the beginning can help in reducing the risk of vision loss and save health significantly. Therefore, this paper proposes three different approaches in terms of features extraction and classification. The proposed approaches introduced three classifiers which are SVM, KNN, and DA as well as three types of the statistical texture features techniques: GLDM, GLCM, and GLRLM. So that for every approach, each proposed classifier is tested on every single technique of adopted texture features independently, performing quite effective comparative study based on accuracy. The main objective of this study is to come up with an appropriate approach for DR recognition, in terms of accuracy enhancement. Therefore, this research proposes one more method based on particle swarm (PSO) for KNN classifier optimization and Tamura features. Tyler Coye algorithm is used for blood vessel segmentation in retinal images. The experiments are implemented based on retina images of the Drive dataset. As a result, the KNN based GLDM approach have gained an accuracy rate reached of (95%) while the announced optimization method of PSO-KNN on Tamura features achieved higher accuracy (100%) among other proposed approaches and state of art methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The most vital organs in the human body are the brain, heart, and lungs. Because the brain controls and coordinates the operations of all other organs, normal brain function is vital. Brain tumour is a mass of tissues which interrupts the normal functioning of the brain, if left untreated will lead to the death of the subject. The classification of multiclass brain tumours using spatial fuzzy based level sets and artificial neural network (ANN) techniques is proposed in this paper. In the proposed method, images are preprocessed using Median Filtering technique, the boundaries of the Brain Tumor are obtained using Spatial Fuzzy based Level Set method, features are extracted using Gabor Wavelet and Gray-Level Run Length Matrix (GLRLM) methods. Finally ANN technique is used for the classification of the image into Normal or Benign Tumor or Malignant Tumor. The proposed method was implemented in the MATLAB working platform and achieved classification accuracy of 94%, which is significant compared to state-of-the-art classification techniques. Thus, the proposed method assist in differentiating between benign and malignant brain tumours, enabling doctors to provide adequate treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gliomas are the most common type of primary brain tumors and one of the highest causes of mortality worldwide. Accurate grading of gliomas is of immense importance to administer proper treatment plans. In this paper, we develop a comprehensive non-invasive multimodal magnetic resonance (MR)-based computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) system to precisely differentiate between different grades of gliomas (Grades: I, II, III, and IV). A total of 99 patients with gliomas (M = 49, F = 50, age range = 1–79 years) were included after providing their informed consent to participate in this study. The proposed imaging-based glioma grading (GG-CAD) system utilizes three different MR imaging modalities, namely; contrast-enhanced T1-MR, T2-MR known as fluid-attenuated inversion-recovery (FLAIR), and diffusion-weighted (DW-MR) to extract the following imaging features: (i) morphological features based on constructing the histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) and estimating the glioma volume, (ii) first and second orders textural features by constructing histogram, gray-level run length matrix (GLRLM), and gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM), (iii) functional features by estimating voxel-wise apparent diffusion coefficients (ADC) and contrast-enhancement slope. These features are then integrated together and processed using a Gini impurity-based selection approach to find the optimal set of significant features. The reduced significant features are then fed to a multi-layer perceptron artificial neural networks (MLP-ANN) classification model to obtain the final diagnosis of a glioma tumor as Grade I, II, III, or IV. The GG-CAD system was evaluated on the enrolled 99 gliomas (Grade I = 13, Grade II = 22, Grade III = 22, and Grade IV = 42) using a leave-one-subject-out (LOSO) and k-fold stratified (with k = 5 and 10) cross-validation approach. The GG-CAD achieved 0.96 ± 0.02 quadratic-weighted Cohen's kappa and 95.8% ± 1.9% overall diagnostic accuracy at LOSO and an outstanding diagnostic performance at k = 10 and 5. Alternative classifiers, including RFs and SVM l i n produced inferior results compared to the proposed MLP-ANN GG-CAD system. These findings demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed CAD system as a novel tool to objectively characterize gliomas using the comprehensive extracted and selected imaging features. The developed GG-CAD system holds promise to be used as a non-invasive diagnostic tool for Precise Grading of Glioma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The efficient analysis of digital mammograms has an important role in the early detection of breast cancer and can lead to a higher percentage of recovery. This paper presents an extended computer-aided diagnosis system for the classification of mammograms into three classes (normal, benign and malignant). The performance of the system is evaluated for two different mammogram databases (MIAS and DDSM) in order to assess its robustness. We discuss the changes required in the system, particularly at the level of the image preprocessing and feature extraction. Computational experiments are performed based on different methods for feature extraction, selection and classification. The results indicate an accuracy of 66.95% for the MIAS dataset and 54.1% for DDSM obtained using genetic algorithm based feature selection and Random Forest classification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The problem of inscription physical damage as one of the historical heritages can be overcome using an image processing technique. The purpose of this study is to design a segmentation application for ancient scripts on inscriptions to recognize the character patterns on the inscriptions in digital form. The preprocessing was carried out to convert images from RGB to HSV. The application used the gray level run length matrix (GLRLM) to extract texture features and the support vector machine (SVM) method to classify the results. The inscription image segmentation was carried out through the pattern detection process using the sliding window method. The application obtained 88.32 % of accuracy, 0.87 of precision, and 0.94 of sensitivity.

Colposcopy plays a vital role in detecting cervical cancer. Artificial intelligence-based methods have been implemented in the literature for the classification of colposcopy images. However, there is a need for a more effective method that can accurately classify cervigrams. In this paper, ColpoClassifier, a hybrid framework for the classification of cervigrams, is proposed, which consists of feature extraction followed by classification. This paper uses a Gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM), a Gray-level run length matrix (GLRLM), and a histogram of gradients (HOG) for feature extraction. These features are combined to form a feature fusion vector of the form GLCM + GLRLM + HOG. The different machine learning classifiers are used for classification by using individual feature vectors as well as feature fusion vectors. The dataset used in this paper is compiled by downloading images from the WHO website. Two variants of this dataset are created, Dataset-I contains images of the aceto-whitening effect, green filter, iodine application, and raw cervigram while Dataset-II only contains images of the aceto-whitening effect. This paper presents the classification performance on all kinds of images with the individual as well as hybrid feature fusion vector and concludes that hybrid feature fusion vectors on aceto-whitening images have given the best results.

Mammography is the most preferred method for breast cancer screening. In this study, computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems were used to improve the image quality of mammography images and to detect suspicious areas. The main contribution of this study is to reveal the optimal combination of various pre-processing algorithms to enable better interpretation and classification of mammography images because pre-processing algorithms significantly affect the accuracy of segmentation and classification methods. In this study, the effect of combinations of different preprocessing methods in differentiating benign and malignant breast lesions was investigated. All image processing algorithms used for lesion detection were used in the mini-MIAS database. In the first step, label information and pectoral muscle resulting from the acquisition of mammography images were removed. In the second step, median filter (MF), contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE), and unsharp masking (USM) algorithms with different combinations of the resolution and visibility of images are increased. In the third step, suspicious regions are extracted from the mammograms using the k-means clustering technique. Then, features were extracted from the obtained ROIs. Finally, feature datasets were classified as normal/abnormal, and benign/malign (two class classification) using Machine Learning algorithms. Test performance measures of the classification methods were examined. In both classifications made in the study, lower classification performance values were obtained when the CLAHE algorithm was used alone as a pre-processing method compared to other pre-processing combinations. When the median filter and unsharp masking algorithms are added to the CLAHE algorithm, the performance of the classification methods has increased. In terms of classification success, Support Vector Machines, Random Forest, and Neural Networks showed the best performance. It was found by comparing the performances of the classification methods that different preprocessing algorithms were effective in detecting the presence of breast lesions and distinguishing benign and malignant.

Lung cancer is the most common cancer throughout the world and identification of malignant tumors at an early stage is needed for diagnosis and treatment of patient thus avoiding the progression to a later stage. In recent times, deep learning architectures such as CNN have shown promising results in effectively identifying malignant tumors in CT scans. In this paper, we combine the CNN features with texture features such as Haralick and Gray level run length matrix features to gather benefits of high level and spatial features extracted from the lung nodules to improve the accuracy of classification. These features are further classified using SVM classifier instead of softmax classifier in order to reduce the overfitting problem. Our model was validated on LUNA dataset and achieved an accuracy of 93.53%, sensitivity of 86.62%, the specificity of 96.55%, and positive predictive value of 94.02%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gliomas are the most common type of primary brain tumors and one of the highest causes of mortality worldwide. Accurate grading of gliomas is of immense importance to administer proper treatment plans. In this paper, we develop a comprehensive non-invasive multimodal magnetic resonance (MR)-based computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) system to precisely differentiate between different grades of gliomas (Grades: I, II, III, and IV). A total of 99 patients with gliomas (M = 49, F = 50, age range = 1–79 years) were included after providing their informed consent to participate in this study. The proposed imaging-based glioma grading (GG-CAD) system utilizes three different MR imaging modalities, namely; contrast-enhanced T1-MR, T2-MR known as fluid-attenuated inversion-recovery (FLAIR), and diffusion-weighted (DW-MR) to extract the following imaging features: (i) morphological features based on constructing the histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) and estimating the glioma volume, (ii) first and second orders textural features by constructing histogram, gray-level run length matrix (GLRLM), and gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM), (iii) functional features by estimating voxel-wise apparent diffusion coefficients (ADC) and contrast-enhancement slope. These features are then integrated together and processed using a Gini impurity-based selection approach to find the optimal set of significant features. The reduced significant features are then fed to a multi-layer perceptron artificial neural networks (MLP-ANN) classification model to obtain the final diagnosis of a glioma tumor as Grade I, II, III, or IV. The GG-CAD system was evaluated on the enrolled 99 gliomas (Grade I = 13, Grade II = 22, Grade III = 22, and Grade IV = 42) using a leave-one-subject-out (LOSO) and k-fold stratified (with k = 5 and 10) cross-validation approach. The GG-CAD achieved 0.96 ± 0.02 quadratic-weighted Cohen’s kappa and 95.8% ± 1.9% overall diagnostic accuracy at LOSO and an outstanding diagnostic performance at k = 10 and 5. Alternative classifiers, including RFs and SVMlin produced inferior results compared to the proposed MLP-ANN GG-CAD system. These findings demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed CAD system as a novel tool to objectively characterize gliomas using the comprehensive extracted and selected imaging features. The developed GG-CAD system holds promise to be used as a non-invasive diagnostic tool for Precise Grading of Glioma.

Plants are an important element of the ecosystem that helps in controlling carbon emissions and environmental changes. Characterization and identification are a need for protecting plants and for people to understand plant protection. Plant leaves are the main parts for detection. Characterizing leaves now has been a significant and complicated task, particularly with the features of leaves. Leaf images of two different types are considered here, one is healthy while the other is unhealthy, and divided into two distinct classes. The proposed method incorporates features of the leaf images that are extracted utilizing the Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) and Gray Level Run Length Matrix (GLRLM) feature extraction techniques. The outcomes are classified using three different classifiers: Random Forest, Multilayer Perceptron, and Naïve Bayes with an accuracy of 95.84%, 98.33%, and 82.89% respectively. The classifiers successfully classify the healthy and diseased leaves of various plants that were considered here. Hence as per the investigation, the study can be valuable for analysts for plant recognition, characterization, and diagnosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Disc herniation is considered as a very common spine abnormality resulting in severe pain in back and legs. Besides it has great impact on economy of suffering patients also there is a concern about the shortage of radiologists and hence demand for computer aided diagnosis system. In this paper statistical texture features have been used for the classification of a normal intervertebral disc and a herniated intervertebral disc from MRI sequences acquired in sagittal plane. The main objective of this work was to appraise about the capability of texture features obtained from the intervertebral disc MR images and distinguish between normal intervertebral disc and herniated intervertebral disc using three different classifiers, namely, BPNN, KNN and SVM. The regions of interest (ROI) from patients with herniated discs were extracted by experienced radiologist from SKIMS institute, Srinagar. Three techniques where applied to each ROI to obtain texture features, which are, grey level run length matrix (GLRLM), grey level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM), and grey level difference method (GLDM). The results obtained show that GLRLM texture features ascertain a good discrimination capability to differentiate between a normal intervertebral disc and a herniated disc when SVM was used. Texture features extracted from GLCM present a good discrimination ability to differentiate between a normal intervertebral disc and a herniated disc when K-NN and BPNN classifiers were used. It is found that the selected set of features of the GLCM can discriminate a normal intervertebral disc from a herniated one, much accurately, on using K-NN and BPNN classifiers. On comparing the classification accuracies of K-NN and BPNN it is found that BPNN gives better results. K-NN is a simple algorithm to understand and implement but is slower because it starts learning from the testing data. As far as SVM is considered, selected set of features of GLRLM discriminates a normal intervertebral disc from a herniated one with good classification accuracy as compared to the others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Wavelet, Curvelet, Ridgelet, Contourlet based multi-resolution transforms which is used for denoising the medical image. • Applied on the Gaussian, Rician and Rayleigh noises added image. • GLRLM is the quantity of keeps running with pixels of gray level 'i' and run length 'j' for a provided guidance. Medical Imaging techniques are most commonly used by radiologists for visualizing detailed internal structure and function of the body. During such imaging process the techniques often have a complex type of noise due to patient's movement, transmission and storage devices, processing and reconstruction algorithms. Three types of noises considered in this paper. They are Gaussian noise, Rician noise and Rayleigh noise which are added to the medical image. Then the different image transformation techniques like Wavelet, Curvelet, Ridgelet and Contourlet Transform etc., can be used for denoising purposes with each of the transform techniques having its own significance. From the denoised image of each transforms, the features are extracted from the image using feature extraction techniques. Three types of feature extraction methods such as Gray Level Run Length Matrix (GLRLM), Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) and Markov random field are used to extract the features of the image. Performance is analyzed based on the values of Mean Square Error, Signal to Noise Ratio, SSI, PSNR and Visual Evaluation. In this paper the ridgelet transform provide better estimate of MSE, SNR, SSI value for Gaussian (37.56, 5.95, 0.9), Rician (32.68, 16.55, 0.92) and Rayleigh noise (260, 7.54, 0.88). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The exploration of new hydrocarbon resources requires a detailed image of the subsurface geological structures. Interpreting seismic sections is one of the most common ways of accurately imaging the Earth's subsurface. Automated seismic section interpretation requires accurate delineation of the target geobody through seismic section segmentation. Texture analysis of images is one of the common tools for seismic section segmentation for target geobody identification. Exploration of geological phenomena e.g. the salt dome, buried channels, etc., is very important in the field of hydrocarbon exploration and production due to the possibility of creating stratigraphic and structural hydrocarbon traps, creating potential for subsurface energy storage and drilling hazards. They have textural differences with their surrounding environment, and therefore the analysis of seismic sections using textural attributes to determine the geometry of these events is one of the challenges facing interpreters. Gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) is the commonly used tool for textural analysis of seismic images, based on which several attributes have been introduced. Optimal adjustment of numerous input parameters in GLCM attributes and their strong dependence on the dip of events are the drawbacks of this method. In this paper, we proposed new seismic attributes based on the newly introduced gray level matrices (GLM) consisting of gray level run length matrix (GLRLM), gray level size zone matrix (GLSZM), gray level difference matrix (GLDM), and normalized gray level dependence matrix (NGLDM). The new proposed seismic attributes depend on fewer input parameters for adjustment than conventional attributes while increasing accuracy in event detection, and even GLSZM-based attributes are independent of the phenomena dip. The efficiency of the proposed attributes was evaluated on the real field and synthetic seismic data containing a salt dome and its results were compared with conventional GLCM-based attributes. The qualitative and quantitative results showed that in addition to the methodological superiority of the newly introduced gray level matrices compared to the GLCM, the accuracy of the proposed attributes was also increased in the salt dome detection. Moreover, it seems that the linear transform to grayscale performed better than the non-linear one in distinguishing the salt dome from the surrounding sediments. But the main challenge is distinguishing the salt dome texture from the weak layering which the nonlinear transform has done better than the linear one. • Introduction of new seismic texture attributes based on various GLM e.g., GLRLM, GLDM, GLSZM, and NGLDM. • Reducing the number of input parameters in proposed attributes especially dip in the GLSZM-based attributes. • Comparison of the performance of newly introduced seismic attributes with conventional attributes. • Improved determination of salt dome geobody compared to conventional seismic attributes. • Using a non-linear transform instead of a linear one to convert a seismic image to grayscale in attributes calculations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study introduces an efficient algorithm for automatic segmentation and detection of mass present in the mammograms. The problem of over and under-segmentation of low-contrast mammographic images has been solved by applying preprocessing on original mammograms. Subtraction operation performed between enhanced and enhanced inverted mammogram significantly highlights the suspicious mass region in mammograms. The segmentation accuracy of suspicious region has been improved by combining wavelet transform and fast fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm. The accuracy of mass segmentation has been quantified by means of Jaccard coefficients. Better sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, and area under the curve (AUC) are observed with support vector machine using radial basis kernel function. The proposed algorithm is validated on Mini-Mammographic Image Analysis Society (MIAS) and Digital Database for Screening Mammography (DDSM) datasets. Highest 91.76% sensitivity, 96.26% specificity, 95.46% accuracy, and 96.29% AUC on DDSM dataset and 94.63% sensitivity, 92.74% specificity, 92.02% accuracy, and 95.33% AUC on MIAS dataset are observed. Also, shape analysis of mass is performed by using moment invariant and Radon transform based features. The best results are obtained with Radon based features and achieved accuracies for round, oval, lobulated, and irregular shape of mass are 100%, 70%, 64%, and 96%, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Classification of histopathologic images and identification of cancerous areas is quite challenging due to image background complexity and resolution. The difference between normal tissue and cancerous tissue is very small in some cases. So, the features of the tissue patches in the image have key importance for automatic classification. Using only one feature or using a few features leads to poor classification results because of the small difference between the textures. In this study, the classification results are compared using different feature extraction algorithms that can extract various features from histopathological image texture. For this study, GLCM, LBP, LBGLCM, GLRLM and SFTA algorithms which are successful feature extraction algorithms have been chosen. The features obtained from these methods are classified with SVM, KNN, LDA and Boosted Tree classifiers. The most successful feature extraction algorithm for histopathological images is determined and the most successful classification algorithm is determined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ability to precisely classify different types of terrain is extremely important for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). There are multiple situations in which terrain classification is fundamental for achieving a UAV’s mission success, such as emergency landing, aerial mapping, decision making, and cooperation between UAVs in autonomous navigation. Previous research works describe different terrain classification approaches mainly using static features from RGB images taken onboard UAVs. In these works, the terrain is classified from each image taken as a whole, not divided into blocks; this approach has an obvious drawback when applied to images with multiple terrain types. This paper proposes a robust computer vision system to classify terrain types using three main algorithms, which extract features from UAV’s downwash effect: Static textures- Gray-Level Co-Occurrence Matrix (GLCM), Gray-Level Run Length Matrix (GLRLM) and Dynamic textures- Optical Flow method. This system has been fully implemented using the OpenCV library, and the GLCM algorithm has also been partially specified in a Hardware Description Language (VHDL) and implemented in a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based platform. In addition to these feature extraction algorithms, a neural network was designed with the aim of classifying the terrain into one of four classes. Lastly, in order to store and access all the classified terrain information, a dynamic map, with this information was generated. The system was validated using videos acquired onboard a UAV with an RGB camera.

The developments of content based image retrieval (CBIR) systems used for image archiving are continued and one of the important research topics. Although some studies have been presented general image achieving, proposed CBIR systems for archiving of medical images are not very efficient. In presented study, it is examined the retrieval efficiency rate of spatial methods used for feature extraction for medical image retrieval systems. The investigated algorithms in this study depend on gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM), gray level run length matrix (GLRLM), and Gabor wavelet accepted as spatial methods. In the experiments, the database is built including hundreds of medical images such as brain, lung, sinus, and bone. The results obtained in this study shows that queries based on statistics obtained from GLCM are satisfied. However, it is observed that Gabor Wavelet has been the most effective and accurate method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dental radiographs are essential in diagnosing the pathology of the jaw. However, similar radiographic appearance of jaw lesions causes difficulties in differentiating cyst from tumor. Therefore, we conducted a development of computer-aided classification system for cyst and tumor lesions in dental panoramic images. The proposed system consists of feature extraction based on texture using the first-order statistics texture (FO), Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) and Gray Level Run Length Matrix (GLRLM). In this work, there were thirty three features which were classified using Support Vector Machine (SVM) based classification. The result shows that differentiation of cyst from tumor lesions can achieve accuracy up to 87.18% and Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic (AUC) curve up to 0.9444. When using the number of features used as predictors, the highest accuracy obtained were 8462% using FO, 61.54% using GLCM, 76.92% using GLRLM, 84.62% using the combination of FO and GLCM, 87.18% using the combination of FO and GLRLM, 75.56% using the combination of GLCM and GLRLM, and 87.18% using the combination of FO, GLCM and GLRLM. The highest AUC value was 0.9361 using FO, using GLCM was 0.8667, using GLRLM was 0.8722, using the combination of FO and GLCM was 0.9278, using the combination of FO and GLRLM was 0.9444, using the combination of GLCM and GLRLM was 0.8417, and using the combination of FO, GLCM and GLRLM was 0.9278. Based on the AUC value, the level of accuracy of this prediction can be categorized as 'Excellent'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The evaluation of jaw bone trabecular structure and quality could be useful for characterization and response of the bone for dental implants. Current clinical methods for assessment of bone quality at the implant sites largely depend on assessing bone mineral density using Dual energy X-ray absorptionometry. However, this does not provide any information about bone structure which is considered to be an equally important factor in assessing bone quality. This paper presents a novel approach for computer analysis of trabecular (or cancellous) bone structure using multiresolution based texture analysis to evaluate changes taking place in the architecture of bone with age and gender. The findings are compared with Hounsfield Units measured from the CT machine at different sites, which is a standard reference. Fifty patients were subjected to clinical CT to obtain the CT number and texture based architectural parameters respectively. In each site texture features were extracted using gray level co-occurrence matrices (GLCM), Run length matrices, Histogram and curvelet based statistical & co occurrence analysis. A very difficult problem in classification techniques is the choice of features to distinguish between classes. However the performance of any classifier is not optimized when all features are used. The feature optimization problem is addressed using Principle component analysis in terms of the best recognition rate and the optimal number of features. Testing this on a series of 120 image sections of trabecular bone with normal, partial and total edentulous patients correctly classified over 90% of the porous bone group with an overall accuracy of 87.8%-95.2%.The results shows that by using the Classification & Regression Tree approach the combination of the features from gray level and Ist order statistics achieved overall classification accuracy in the range of 87.8-90.24%. Features selected from the curvelet based co occurrence matrix performed better with overall classification accuracy of 92.89%.In order to increase the success rate the classification is done using the combination of curvelet statistical features and curvelet co occurrence features as feature vector and using this, a mean success rate of 95.2% is obtained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Generally, skin disease is a common one in human diseases. In computer vision application, the skin color is the powerful indication for this disease. This system identifies the skin cancer disease based on the images of skin. Initially, the skin is filtered using median filter and segmented using Mean shift segmentation. Segmented images are fed as input to feature extraction. GLCM, Moment Invariants and GLRLM features are extracted in this research work. The extracted features are classified by using classification techniques like Support vector machine, Probabilistic Neural Networks and Random forest and Combined SVM+ RF classifiers. Here combined SVM+RF classifier provided better results than other classifiers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ability to precisely classify different types of terrain is extremely important for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). There are multiple situations in which terrain classification is fundamental for achieving a UAV's mission success, such as emergency landing, aerial mapping, decision making, and cooperation between UAVs in autonomous navigation. Previous research works describe different terrain classification approaches mainly using static features from RGB images taken onboard UAVs. In these works, the terrain is classified from each image taken as a whole, not divided into blocks; this approach has an obvious drawback when applied to images with multiple terrain types. This paper proposes a robust computer vision system to classify terrain types using three main algorithms, which extract features from UAV's downwash effect: Static textures- Gray-Level Co-Occurrence Matrix (GLCM), Gray-Level Run Length Matrix (GLRLM) and Dynamic textures- Optical Flow method. This system has been fully implemented using the OpenCV library, and the GLCM algorithm has also been partially specified in a Hardware Description Language (VHDL) and implemented in a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based platform. In addition to these feature extraction algorithms, a neural network was designed with the aim of classifying the terrain into one of four classes. Lastly, in order to store and access all the classified terrain information, a dynamic map, with this information was generated. The system was validated using videos acquired onboard a UAV with an RGB camera. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]