Hybrid Texture Feature Research Articles

Performance comparison of texture feature analysis methods using PNN classifier for segmentation and classification of brain CT images

A computer software system is designed for the segmentation and classification of benign and malignant tumor slices in brain computed tomography images. In this paper, we present a texture analysis methods to find and select the texture features of the tumor region of each slice to be segmented by support vector machine (SVM). The images considered for this study belongs to 208 benign and malignant tumor slices. The features are extracted and selected using Student's t-test. The reduced optimal features are used to model and train the probabilistic neural network (PNN) classifier and the classification accuracy is evaluated using k fold cross validation method. The segmentation results are also compared with the experienced radiologist ground truth. Quantitative analysis between ground truth and segmented tumor is presented in terms of quantitative measure of segmentation accuracy and the overlap similarity measure of Jaccard index. The proposed system provides some newly found texture features have important contribution in segmenting and classifying benign and malignant tumor slices efficiently and accurately. The experimental results show that the proposed hybrid texture feature analysis method using Probabilistic Neural Network (PNN) based classifier is able to achieve high segmentation and classification accuracy effectiveness as measured by Jaccard index, sensitivity, and specificity.

Hardwood species classification with DWT based hybrid texture feature extraction techniques

In this work, discrete wavelet transform (DWT) based hybrid texture feature extraction techniques have been used to categorize the microscopic images of hardwood species into 75 different classes. Initially, the DWT has been employed to decompose the image up to 7 levels using Daubechies (db3) wavelet as decomposition filter. Further, first-order statistics (FOS) and four variants of local binary pattern (LBP) descriptors are used to acquire distinct features of these images at various levels. The linear support vector machine (SVM), radial basis function (RBF) kernel SVM and random forest classifiers have been employed for classification. The classification accuracy obtained with state-of-the-art and DWT based hybrid texture features using various classifiers are compared. The DWT based FOS-uniform local binary pattern (DWTFOSLBPu2) texture features at the 4th level of image decomposition have produced best classification accuracy of 97.67 ± 0.79% and 98.40 ± 064% for grayscale and RGB images, respectively, using linear SVM classifier. Reduction in feature dataset by minimal redundancy maximal relevance (mRMR) feature selection method is achieved and the best classification accuracy of 99.00 ± 0.79% and 99.20 ± 0.42% have been obtained for DWT based FOS-LBP histogram Fourier features (DWTFOSLBP-HF) technique at the 5th and 6th levels of image decomposition for grayscale and RGB images, respectively, using linear SVM classifier. The DWTFOSLBP-HF features selected with mRMR method has also established superiority amongst the DWT based hybrid texture feature extraction techniques for randomly divided database into different proportions of training and test datasets.

Categorical image retrieval through genetically optimized support vector machines (GOSVM) and hybrid texture features

Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems provide a potential solutions of retrieving semantically similar images from large image repositories against any query image. The research community is competing for more efficient and effective methods of content-based image retrieval, so they can be employed in serving time critical applications in scientific and industrial domains. In this paper, we have combined genetic algorithm and support vector machines to reduce the existing gap between high-level semantic content of the images and the information provided by their low-level descriptors. To maximize the performance of proposed technique, an efficient feature extraction method is introduced, which is based on the concept of in-depth texture analysis. To further enhance the capabilities of proposed method, we employed a way through which the risk of mis-associations can be avoided. To justify the effectiveness of the proposed method, we compared it against several popular CBIR techniques and show a significant improvement in terms of accuracy and stability based on Corel image gallery.

Application of hybrid image features for fast and non-invasive classification of raisin

A new approach for the non-invasive classification of raisins is presented based on the hybrid image features, namely morphological, color and texture features. A total of 74 features (8 morphological, 30 color, and 36 textural) were extracted from RBG images. Seven kinds of models were established based on different feature sets. They were three kinds of models established based on single feature set, three kinds of models established based on the combination of two feature sets, and one kind of model established based on the combination of all feature sets. Five kinds of classifiers, namely partial least squares (PLS), linear discriminant analysis (LDA), soft independent modeling of class analogy (SIMCA), and least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) with linear and radial basis function (RBF) kernels were used for the model establishment based on different feature sets. The best correct answer rates (CAR) of 99% was obtained when LDA was used to establish the classification model based on the combination of all feature sets, which was higher than those of the models established based on single feature set or the combination of two feature sets. The results show that the feature combination is helpful to improve the accuracy of raisin classification. It was concluded that the varieties of raisin could be accurately classified based on RGB image features and the combination of morphological, color and texture features was an accurate way to improve the accuracy of classification.