Proposed Feature Extraction Algorithm Research Articles

Extraction of Lesion-Partitioned Features and Retrieval of Contrast-Enhanced Liver Images

The most critical step in grayscale medical image retrieval systems is feature extraction. Understanding the interrelatedness between the characteristics of lesion images and corresponding imaging features is crucial for image training, as well as for features extraction. A feature-extraction algorithm is developed based on different imaging properties of lesions and on the discrepancy in density between the lesions and their surrounding normal liver tissues in triple-phase contrast-enhanced computed tomographic (CT) scans. The algorithm includes mainly two processes: (1) distance transformation, which is used to divide the lesion into distinct regions and represents the spatial structure distribution and (2) representation using bag of visual words (BoW) based on regions. The evaluation of this system based on the proposed feature extraction algorithm shows excellent retrieval results for three types of liver lesions visible on triple-phase scans CT images. The results of the proposed feature extraction algorithm show that although single-phase scans achieve the average precision of 81.9%, 80.8%, and 70.2%, dual- and triple-phase scans achieve 86.3% and 88.0%.

Hierarchical Classification Methods of Chinese Scientific Papers Based on Extracting Key Words

In recent years, there have been extensive studies and rapid progresses in automatic text classification, which is one of the hotspots and key techniques in the information retrieval and data mining field. Feature extraction and classification algorithm are the crucial technologies for this problem. This paper firstly proposed feature extraction algorithm based on key words, the algorithm selected key words set from special part of scientific papers, and employed mutual information to extract features. And then, proposed an improved hierarchical classification method, and realized hierarchical classification of Chinese scientific papers.

Subclass linear discriminant analysis for video-based face recognition

We present a novel subclass Linear Discriminant Analysis algorithm for feature extraction that copes with the severe pose, expression and illumination changes present in faces extracted from far-field video streams with subjects unconstrained in their motion and uncooperative to the system. Our novelty lies on the efficient automatic generation of subclasses from the gallery faces, by exploiting their different visual appearance and not constrained by their numbers per class. The proposed feature extraction algorithm is integrated in our complete face recognition system, with modules for preprocessing, classification, and decision fusion. We demonstrate the capability of the new algorithm to automatically generate discriminable subclasses and the resulting improved classification accuracy on a challenging video-based dataset, comprising low quality and resolution faces, as well as large variations in visual appearance. Our results indicate superior recognition rate compared to any systems in the CLEAR 2007 evaluation, running on that dataset.

Neural signal classification using a simplified feature set with nonparametric clustering

This paper presents a spike sorting method using a simplified feature set with a nonparametric clustering algorithm. The proposed feature extraction algorithm is efficient and has been implemented with a custom integrated circuit chip interfaced with the PC. The proposed clustering algorithm performs nonparametric clustering. It defines an energy function to characterize the compactness of the data and proves that the clustering procedure converges. Through iterations, the data points collapse into well formed clusters and the associated energy approaches zero. By claiming these isolated clusters, neural spikes are classified.

Unsupervised Video Shot Detection Using Clustering Ensemble with a Color Global Scale-Invariant Feature Transform Descriptor

Scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) transforms a grayscale image into scale-invariant coordinates of local features that are invariant to image scale, rotation, and changing viewpoints. Because of its scale-invariant properties, SIFT has been successfully used for object recognition and content-based image retrieval. The biggest drawback of SIFT is that it uses only grayscale information and misses important visual information regarding color. In this paper, we present the development of a novel color feature extraction algorithm that addresses this problem, and we also propose a new clustering strategy using clustering ensembles for video shot detection. Based on Fibonacci lattice-quantization, we develop a novel color global scale-invariant feature transform (CGSIFT) for better description of color contents in video frames for video shot detection. CGSIFT first quantizes a color image, representing it with a small number of color indices, and then uses SIFT to extract features from the quantized color index image. We also develop a new space description method using small image regions to represent global color features as the second step of CGSIFT. Clustering ensembles focusing on knowledge reuse are then applied to obtain better clustering results than using single clustering methods for video shot detection. Evaluation of the proposed feature extraction algorithm and the new clustering strategy using clustering ensembles reveals very promising results for video shot detection.

Combined Statistical and Multiscale View on Ultrasonic Liver Images for Characterization

Combined Statistical and Multiscale View on Ultrasonic Liver Images for Characterization

Unsupervised segmentation of ultrasonic liver images by multiresolution fractal feature vector

The feasibility of selecting fractal feature vector based on multiresolution analysis to segment suspicious abnormal regions of ultrasonic liver images is described in this paper. The proposed feature extraction algorithm is based on the spatial-frequency decomposition and fractal geometry. Segmentation of various liver diseases reveals that the fractal feature vector based on multiresolution analysis is trustworthy. A quantitative characterization based on the proposed unsupervised segmentation algorithm can be utilized to establish an automatic computer-aided diagnostic system. As well, to increase the visual interpretation capability of ultrasonic liver image for junior physicians, off-line learning software is developed to investigate the visual criteria.

Robust speech features based on wavelet transform with application to speaker identification

An effective and robust speech feature extraction method is presented. Based on the time–frequency multiresolution property of wavelet transform, the input speech signal is decomposed into various frequency channels. For capturing the characteristics of an individual speaker, the linear predictive cepstral coefficients of the approximation channel and entropy value of the detail channel for each decomposition process are calculated. In addition, an adaptive thresholding technique for each lower resolution is also applied to remove the influence of noise interference. Experimental results show that using this mechanism not only effectively reduces the influence of noise interference but also improves the recognition performance. Finally, the proposed method is evaluated on the MAT telephone speech database for text-independent speaker identification using the group vector quantisation identifier. Some popular existing methods are also evaluated for comparison, and the results show that the proposed feature extraction algorithm is more effective and robust than the other existing methods. In addition, the performance of the proposed method is very satisfactory even in a low SNR environment corrupted by Gaussian white noise.

Feature extraction based on decision boundaries

A novel approach to feature extraction for classification based directly on the decision boundaries is proposed. It is shown how discriminantly redundant features and discriminantly informative features are related to decision boundaries. A procedure to extract discriminantly informative features based on a decision boundary is proposed. The proposed feature extraction algorithm has several desirable properties: (1) it predicts the minimum number of features necessary to achieve the same classification accuracy as in the original space for a given pattern recognition problem; and (2) it finds the necessary feature vectors. The proposed algorithm does not deteriorate under the circumstances of equal class means or equal class covariances as some previous algorithms do. Experiments show that the performance of the proposed algorithm compares favorably with those of previous algorithms.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>