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Cervical cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in women worldwide. Most deaths due to the disease occur in less developed areas of the world. In this work, we introduce a new image dataset along with expert annotated diagnoses for evaluating image-based cervical disease classification algorithms. A large number of Cervigram® images are selected from a database provided by the US National...
Cervical cancer is the third most common type of cancer in women worldwide. Most death cases of cervical cancer occur in less developed areas of the world. In this work, we develop an automated and low-cost method that is applicable in those low-resource regions. First, we propose a more distinctive multi-feature descriptor for encoding the cervical image information by enhancing an existing descriptor...
This paper presents an algorithm to classify pixels in uterine cervix images into two classes, namely normal and abnormal tissues, and simultaneously select relevant features, using group sparsity. Because of the large variations in image appearance due to changes of illumination, specular reflections and other visual noise, the two classes have a strong overlap in feature space, whether features...
This paper presents an algorithm using discriminative sparse representations to segment tissues in optical images of the uterine cervix. Because of the large variations in the image appearance caused by the changing of illumination and specular reflection, the different classes of color and texture features in optical images are often overlapped with each other. Using sparse representations they can...
In this paper, we introduce a new classifier ensemble approach, applied to tissue segmentation in optical images of the uterine cervix. Ensemble methods combine the predictions of a set of diverse classifiers. The main contribution of our approach is an effective way of combination based on each classifier's performance level-namely, the sensitivity p and specificity q, which also produces an optimal...
We empirically evaluate a distance-guided learning method embedded in a multiple classifier system (MCS) for tissue segmentation in optical images of the uterine cervix. Instead of combining multiple base classifiers as in traditional ensemble methods, we propose a Bhattacharyya distance based metric for measuring the similarity in decision boundary shapes between a pair of statistical classifiers...
In this paper, we propose a novel predictive model for object boundary, which can integrate information from any sources. The model is a dynamic ldquoobjectrdquo model whose manifestation includes a deformable surface representing shape, a volumetric interior carrying appearance statistics, and an embedded classifier that separates object from background based on current feature information. Unlike...
In image classification problems, especially those involving tumor or precancerous lesion, we are usually faced with the situation in which the cost of mistakenly classifying samples in one class is much higher than that of the opposite mistake in the other class. Therefore it is essential to include cost information about classes in our classification methods. This paper applies a cost-sensitive...
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