Computer Aided Diagnosis of CT Focal Liver Lesions based on Texture Features, Feature Selection and Ensembles of Classifiers
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A computer aided diagnosis system aiming to classify liver tissue from computed tomography images is presented. For each region of interest five distinct sets of texture features were extracted. Two different ensembles of classifiers were constructed and compared. The first one consists of five Neural Networks (NNs), each using as input either one of the computed texture feature sets or its reduced version after feature selection. The second ensemble of classifiers was generated by combining five different type of primary classifiers, two NNs, and three k-nearest neighbor classifiers. The primary classifiers of the second ensemble used identical input vectors, which resulted from the combination of the five texture feature sets, either directly or after proper feature selection. The decision of each ensemble of classifiers was extracted by applying voting schemes.
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Differential diagnosis of CT focal liver lesions using texture features, feature selection and ensemble driven classifiers
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