Texture feature selection using GA for classification of human brain MRI scans

M. Nouman Tajik*, Atiq Ur Rehman, Waleed Khan, Baber Khan

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Abstract

Intelligent Medical Image Analysis plays a vital role in identification of various pathological conditions. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a useful imaging technique that is widely used by physicians to investigate dif-ferent pathologies. Increase in computing power has introduced Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) which can effectively work in an automated environ-ment. Diagnosis or classification accuracy of such a CAD system is associated with the selection of features. This paper proposes an enhanced brain MRI classifier targeting two main objectives, the first is to achieve maximum clas-sification accuracy and secondly to minimize the number of features for clas-sification. Two different machine learning algorithms are enhanced with a feature selection pre-processing step. Feature selection is performed using Genetic Algorithm (GA) while classifiers used are Support Vector Machine (SVM) and K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages233-244
Number of pages12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9713 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Keywords

  • Brain MRI
  • Classifier
  • Feature selection
  • Genetic algorithm
  • Machine learning
  • Supervised learning
  • Support vector machine

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