Abstract

The development of reliable Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) systems would help in the early detection of Knee Joint Disorder (KJD). In this work, normal and KJD vibroarthrographic (VAG) signals are classified using multifractals and Support Vector Machines (SVM). Multifractal dimension [Formula: see text] is calculated from the VAG signals for various [Formula: see text]-values ([Formula: see text]). Geometrical features are calculated from the multifractal spectrum. The dimension of the feature set is reduced using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The significant features obtained from the multifractal spectrum are fed as the input to the SVM classifier. The accuracy of the classifier is analyzed using kernels such as linear, quadratic, polynomial and Radial Basis Functions (RBF). The results suggest that VAG signals exhibits the multifractal property. The fluctuations in the normal and abnormal signals are well predicted in small scales of segments of time series. The features such as [Formula: see text] and Mean[Formula: see text] are high in abnormal VAG signals. These features give statistically significant values in differentiating the normal and abnormal subjects ([Formula: see text]). The area under the Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve is high for polynomial function (0.98). The SVM classifier with polynomial function gives 92.13% of accuracy in differentiating the normal and abnormal subjects. The calculation of multifractal spectrum and geometrical features from VAG signals requires optimization of few parameters, easy to compute, computationally inexpensive, and less time consuming. Hence, the CAD system seems to be clinically significant for the classification of normal and KJD subjects.

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