Analysis and identification of kidney stone using Kth nearest neighbour (KNN) and support vector machine (SVM) classification techniques

Abstract

Kidney stone detection is one of the sensitive topic now-a-days. There are various problem associates with this topic like low resolution of image, similarity of kidney stone and prediction of stone in the new image of kidney. Ultrasound images have low contrast and are difficult to detect and extract the region of interest. Therefore, the image has to go through the preprocessing which normally contains image enhancement. The aim behind this operation is to find the out the best quality, so that the identification becomes easier. Medical imaging is one of the fundamental imaging, because they are used in more sensitive field which is a medical field and it must be accurate. In this paper, we first proceed for the enhancement of the image with the help of median filter, Gaussian filter and un-sharp masking. After that we use morphological operations like erosion and dilation and then entropy based segmentation is used to find the region of interest and finally we use KNN and SVM classification techniques for the analysis of kidney stone images.