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Dual-space pyramid matching for medical image classification

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Abstract

With the increasing of medical images that are routinely acquired in clinical practice, automatic medical image classification has become an important research topic recently. In this paper, we propose an efficient medical image classification algorithm, which works by mapping local image patches to multi-resolution histograms built both in feature space and image space and then matching sets of features though weighted histogram intersection. The matching produces a kernel function that satisfies Mercer's condition, and a multi-class SVM classifier is then applied to classify the images. The dual-space pyramid matching scheme explores not only the distribution of local features in feature space but also their spatial layout in the images. Therefore, more accurate implicit correspondence is built between feature sets. We evaluate the proposed algorithm on the dataset for the automatic medical image annotation task of ImageCLEFmed 2005. It outperforms the best result of the campaign as well as the pyramid matchings that only perform in single space. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Multimedia Modeling - 13th International Multimedia Modeling Conference, MMM 2007, Proceedings
Pages96-105
Volume4351 LNCS
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event13th International Multimedia Modeling Conference, MMM 2007 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 9 Jan 200712 Jan 2007

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4351 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th International Multimedia Modeling Conference, MMM 2007
PlaceSingapore
CitySingapore
Period9/01/0712/01/07

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