Saliency-based characterization of group differences for magnetic resonance disease classification

Anatomical variability of patient's brains limits the statistical analyses about presence or absence of a pathology. In this paper, we present an approach for classification of brain Magnetic Resonance (MR) images from healthy and diseased subjects. The approach builds up a saliency map, which...

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Autores: Rueda Olarte, Andrea del Pilar, González Osorio, Fabio Augusto, Romero Castro, Eduardo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:Colombia
Institución:Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:Repositorio UN
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/39493
Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/39493
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/29590/
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Subject classification
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Visual Attention models
Saliency maps
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Sumario:Anatomical variability of patient's brains limits the statistical analyses about presence or absence of a pathology. In this paper, we present an approach for classification of brain Magnetic Resonance (MR) images from healthy and diseased subjects. The approach builds up a saliency map, which extract regions of relative change in three different dimensions: intensity, orientation and edges. The obtained regions of interest are used as suitable patterns for subject classification using support vector machines. The strategy’s performance was assessed on a set of 198 MR images extracted from the OASIS database and divided into four groups, reporting an average accuracy rate of 74.54% and an average Equal Error Rate of 0.725.