The effects of co-occurrence matrix based texture parameters on the classification of solitary pulmonary nodules imaged on computed tomography

Comput Med Imaging Graph. 1999 Nov-Dec;23(6):339-48. doi: 10.1016/s0895-6111(99)00033-6.

Abstract

In this project, patients with a solitary pulmonary nodule, were imaged using high resolution computed tomography. Quantitative measures of texture were extracted from these images using co-occurrence matrices. These matrices were formed with different combinations of gray level quantization, distance between pixels and angles. The derived measures were input to a linear discriminant classifier to predict the classification (benign or malignant) of each nodule. Using a relative quantization scheme with eight levels, four features yielded an area under the ROC curve (Az) of 0.992; 93.8% (30/32) of cases were correctly classified when training and testing on the same cases; while 90.6% (29/32) were correctly classified when jackknifing was used.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted
  • Discriminant Analysis
  • Humans
  • Pattern Recognition, Automated
  • ROC Curve
  • Software
  • Solitary Pulmonary Nodule / classification
  • Solitary Pulmonary Nodule / diagnostic imaging*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods*