Improving computer-aided diagnosis of interstitial disease in chest radiographs by combining one-class and two-class classifiers

Yulia Arzhaeva; David Tax; Bram van Ginneken

doi:10.1117/12.652208

15 March 2006 Improving computer-aided diagnosis of interstitial disease in chest radiographs by combining one-class and two-class classifiers

Yulia Arzhaeva, David Tax, Bram van Ginneken

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Proceedings Volume 6144, Medical Imaging 2006: Image Processing; 614458 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.652208
Event: Medical Imaging, 2006, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

In this paper we compare and combine two distinct pattern classification approaches to the automated detection of regions with interstitial abnormalities in frontal chest radiographs. Standard two-class classifiers and recently developed one-class classifiers are considered. The one-class problem is to find the best model of the normal class and reject all objects that don't fit the model of normality. This one-class methodology was developed to deal with poorly balanced classes, and it uses only objects from a well-sampled class for training. This may be an advantageous approach in medical applications, where normal examples are easier to obtain than abnormal cases. We used receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis to evaluate classification performance by the different methods as a function of the number of abnormal cases available for training. Various two-class classifiers performed excellently in case that enough abnormal examples were available (area under ROC curve A_z = 0.985 for a linear discriminant classifier). The one-class approach gave worse result when used stand-alone (A_z = 0.88 for Gaussian data description) but the combination of both approaches, using a mean combining classifier resulted in better performance when only few abnormal samples were available (average A_z = 0.94 for the combination and A_z = 0.91 for the stand-alone linear discriminant in the same set-up). This indicates that computer-aided diagnosis schemes may benefit from using a combination of two-class and one-class approaches when only few abnormal samples are available.

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Yulia Arzhaeva, David Tax, and Bram van Ginneken "Improving computer-aided diagnosis of interstitial disease in chest radiographs by combining one-class and two-class classifiers", Proc. SPIE 6144, Medical Imaging 2006: Image Processing, 614458 (15 March 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.652208

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