Jie Yang, Xinyang Feng, Elsa D Angelini, Andrew F Laine, Jie Yang, Xinyang Feng, Elsa D Angelini, Andrew F Laine, Xinyang Feng, Jie Yang, Elsa D Angelini, Andrew F Laine
Automated texture analysis of lung computed tomography (CT) images is a critical tool in subtyping pulmonary emphysema and diagnosing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Texton-based methods encode lung textures with nearest-texton frequency histograms, and have achieved high performance for supervised classification of emphysema subtypes from annotated lung CT images. In this work, we first explore characterizing lung textures with sparse decomposition from texton dictionaries, using different regularization strategies, and then extend the sparsity-inducing constraint to the construction of the dictionaries...
August 2016: Conference Proceedings: Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society