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Directional
Wavelet based Features for Colonic Polyp
Classification
Georg Wimmer1, Michael Häfner3, Shigeto
Joshida4, Toru Tamaki5, Shinji
Tanaka4,
Jens
Tischendorf2 and
Andreas Uhl1
1
University of Salzburg, Austria; 2 RWTH Aachen University Hospital;
3 St. Elisabeth Hospital; 4 Hiroshima University Hospital; 5 Hiroshima University
Abstract
In this work, various wavelet based methods like the discrete wavelet transform, the dual
tree
complex wavelet transform, the Gabor wavelet transform, curvelets, contourlets and shearlets are
applied for the automated classification of colonic polyps. The methods are tested on 8 HD
endoscopic image databases, where each database is acquired using different imaging modalities
(Pentax's i Scan technology combined with or without staining the mucosa), 2 NBI high
magnification databases and one database with chromoscopy high magnification images. To
evaluate the suitability of the wavelet based methods with respect to the classification of colonic
polyps, the classification performances of 3 wavelet transforms and the more recent curvelets,
contourlets and shearlets are compared using a common framework. Wavelet transforms were
already often and successfully applied to the classification of colonic polyps, whereas curvelets,
contourlets and shearlets have not been used for this purpose so far. We apply different feature
extraction techniques to extract the information of the subbands of the wavelet based methods.
Most of the in total 20 approaches were already published in different texture classification
contexts. Thus, the aim is also to assess and compare their classification performance using a
common framework. Three of the 20 approaches are original. These three approaches extract
Weibull features from the subbands of curvelets, contourlets and shearlets. Additionally, 5 state of
the art non wavelet based methods are applied to our databases so that we can compare their
results with those of the wavelet based methods. It turned out that extracting Weibull distribution
parameters from the subband coefficients generally leads to high classification results, especially
for the dual tree complex wavelet transform, the Gabor wavelet transform and the Shearlet
transform. These three wavelet based transforms in combination with Weibull features even
outperform the state
of the art methods on most of the databases. We will also show that the
Weibull distribution is better suited to model the subband coefficient distribution than other
commonly used probability distributions like the Gaussian distribution and the generalized
Gaussian distribution.
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Proceedings
OAGM & ARW Joint Workshop 2016 on "Computer Vision and Robotics“
- Title
- Proceedings
- Subtitle
- OAGM & ARW Joint Workshop 2016 on "Computer Vision and Robotics“
- Authors
- Peter M. Roth
- Kurt Niel
- Publisher
- Verlag der Technischen Universität Graz
- Location
- Wels
- Date
- 2017
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-85125-527-0
- Size
- 21.0 x 29.7 cm
- Pages
- 248
- Keywords
- Tagungsband
- Categories
- International
- Tagungsbände