A dissimilarity-based multiple classifier system for trabecular bone texture in detection and prediction of progression of knee osteoarthritis
There is a growing need for classification systems that can accurately detect and predict knee osteoarthritis (OA) from plain radiographs. For this purpose, a system based on a support vector machine (SVM) classifier and distances measured between trabecular bone (TB) texture images was developed an...
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| author | Woloszynski, Tomasz Podsiadlo, Pawel Stachowiak, Gwidon Kurzynski, M. |
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| description | There is a growing need for classification systems that can accurately detect and predict knee osteoarthritis (OA) from plain radiographs. For this purpose, a system based on a support vector machine (SVM) classifier and distances measured between trabecular bone (TB) texture images was developed and tested in previous work. Unlike other systems, it allows an image classification without the calculation and selection of numerous texture features, and it is invariant to a range of imaging conditions encountered in a routine X-ray screening of knees. Although the system exhibited 85.4% classification accuracy in OA detection, which was higher than those obtained from other systems, its performance could be further improved. To achieve this, a dissimilarity-based multiple classifier (DMC) system is developed in this study. The system measures distances between TB texture images and generates a diverse ensemble of classifiers using prototype selection, bootstrapping of training set and heterogeneous classifiers. A measure of competence is used to select accurate (i.e. better-than-random) classifiers from the ensemble, which are then combined through the majority voting rule. To evaluate the newly developed system in OA detection (prediction of OA progression), TB texture images selected on standardised radiographs of healthy and OA (non-progressive and progressive OA) knees were used. The results obtained showed that the DMC system has higher classification accuracies for the detection (90.51% with 87.65% specificity and 93.33% sensitivity) and prediction (80% with 82.00% specificity and 77.97% sensitivity) than other systems, indicating its potential as a decision-support tool for the assessment of radiographic knee OA. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-396532017-09-13T14:29:24Z A dissimilarity-based multiple classifier system for trabecular bone texture in detection and prediction of progression of knee osteoarthritis Woloszynski, Tomasz Podsiadlo, Pawel Stachowiak, Gwidon Kurzynski, M. radiography Texture classification multiple classifier system knee osteoarthritis There is a growing need for classification systems that can accurately detect and predict knee osteoarthritis (OA) from plain radiographs. For this purpose, a system based on a support vector machine (SVM) classifier and distances measured between trabecular bone (TB) texture images was developed and tested in previous work. Unlike other systems, it allows an image classification without the calculation and selection of numerous texture features, and it is invariant to a range of imaging conditions encountered in a routine X-ray screening of knees. Although the system exhibited 85.4% classification accuracy in OA detection, which was higher than those obtained from other systems, its performance could be further improved. To achieve this, a dissimilarity-based multiple classifier (DMC) system is developed in this study. The system measures distances between TB texture images and generates a diverse ensemble of classifiers using prototype selection, bootstrapping of training set and heterogeneous classifiers. A measure of competence is used to select accurate (i.e. better-than-random) classifiers from the ensemble, which are then combined through the majority voting rule. To evaluate the newly developed system in OA detection (prediction of OA progression), TB texture images selected on standardised radiographs of healthy and OA (non-progressive and progressive OA) knees were used. The results obtained showed that the DMC system has higher classification accuracies for the detection (90.51% with 87.65% specificity and 93.33% sensitivity) and prediction (80% with 82.00% specificity and 77.97% sensitivity) than other systems, indicating its potential as a decision-support tool for the assessment of radiographic knee OA. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39653 10.1177/0954411912456650 Sage Publications Ltd restricted |
| spellingShingle | radiography Texture classification multiple classifier system knee osteoarthritis Woloszynski, Tomasz Podsiadlo, Pawel Stachowiak, Gwidon Kurzynski, M. A dissimilarity-based multiple classifier system for trabecular bone texture in detection and prediction of progression of knee osteoarthritis |
| title | A dissimilarity-based multiple classifier system for trabecular bone texture in detection and prediction of progression of knee osteoarthritis |
| title_full | A dissimilarity-based multiple classifier system for trabecular bone texture in detection and prediction of progression of knee osteoarthritis |
| title_fullStr | A dissimilarity-based multiple classifier system for trabecular bone texture in detection and prediction of progression of knee osteoarthritis |
| title_full_unstemmed | A dissimilarity-based multiple classifier system for trabecular bone texture in detection and prediction of progression of knee osteoarthritis |
| title_short | A dissimilarity-based multiple classifier system for trabecular bone texture in detection and prediction of progression of knee osteoarthritis |
| title_sort | dissimilarity-based multiple classifier system for trabecular bone texture in detection and prediction of progression of knee osteoarthritis |
| topic | radiography Texture classification multiple classifier system knee osteoarthritis |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39653 |