%0 Journal Article
%T A Novel Multiinstance Learning Approach for Liver Cancer Recognition on Abdominal CT Images Based on CPSO-SVM and IO
%A Huiyan Jiang
%A Ruiping Zheng
%A Dehui Yi
%A Di Zhao
%J Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine
%D 2013
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2013/434969
%X A novel multi-instance learning (MIL) method is proposed to recognize liver cancer with abdominal CT images based on instance optimization (IO) and support vector machine with parameters optimized by a combination algorithm of particle swarm optimization and local optimization (CPSO-SVM). Introducing MIL into liver cancer recognition can solve the problem of multiple regions of interest classification. The images we use in the experiments are liver CT images extracted from abdominal CT images. The proposed method consists of two main steps: (1) obtaining the key instances through IO by texture features and a classification threshold in classification of instances with CPSO-SVM and (2) predicting unknown samples with the key instances and the classification threshold. By extracting the instances equally based on the entire image, the proposed method can ignore the procedure of tumor region segmentation and lower the demand of segmentation accuracy of liver region. The normal SVM method and two MIL algorithms, Citation-kNN algorithm and WEMISVM algorithm, have been chosen as comparing algorithms. The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively recognize liver cancer images from two kinds of cancer CT images and greatly improve the recognition accuracy. 1. Introduction With the development of computer technology, computer aided diagnosis (CAD) [1] technology used in quantitative analysis of medical imaging arose at the historic moment and became one of the research hotspots in medical imaging. Imageological diagnosis for liver cancer mainly includes four ways, angiography, ultrasonic scan, computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In the early diagnosis of liver cancer, the CT image is generally preferred by the doctor [2] because of its high resolution, low damage to human body, and the ability to reflect the pathological position of liver cancer accurately. In traditional image diagnosis, the diagnosis of a mass of CT images brings a radiologist a huge workload. And an omission of a tiny detail because of the differences of visions or experiences may cause a wrong classification [3]. Moreover, liver cancer has the characteristics of difficult treatment, poor curative effect, and high mortality. So, it urgently needs liver cancer CAD to give advisory opinions to the doctor and help improve the correct diagnostic rate. Traditional liver cancer recognition methods in CAD can be roughly divided into two categories, learning-based classification and nonparametric classification. The approach of learning-based
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