A discrimination method for the detection of pneumonia using chest radiograph

This paper presents a statistical method for the detection of lobar pneumonia when using digitized chest X-ray films. Each region of interest was represented by a vector of wavelet texture measures which is then multiplied by the orthogonal matrix Q2. The first two elements of the transformed vector...

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Main Authors: Mohd. Noor, Noorliza, Mohd. Rijal, Omar, Yunus, Ashari, Syed Abu Bakar, Syed Abdul Rahman
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier Ltd. 2010
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/22793/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compmedimag.2009.08.005
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Summary:This paper presents a statistical method for the detection of lobar pneumonia when using digitized chest X-ray films. Each region of interest was represented by a vector of wavelet texture measures which is then multiplied by the orthogonal matrix Q2. The first two elements of the transformed vectors were shown to have a bivariate normal distribution. Misclassification probabilities were estimated using probability ellipsoids and discriminant functions. The result of this study recommends the detection of pneumonia by constructing probability ellipsoids or discriminant function using maximum energy and maximum column sum energy texture measures where misclassification probabilities were less than 0.15.