preprints.org > engineering > biomedical & chemical engineering > doi: 10.20944/preprints201810.0073.v1

Preprint Article Version 1 This version is not peer-reviewed

Version 1 : Received: 3 October 2018 / Approved: 4 October 2018 / Online: 4 October 2018 (14:01:42 CEST)

This paper discusses the computer-aided (CAD) classification between Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC), i.e., the most common type of liver cancer, and Liver Abscess, based on ultrasound image texture features and Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. Among 79 cases of liver diseases, with 44 cases of HCC and 35 cases of liver abscess, this research extracts 96 features of Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) and Gray-Level Run-Length Matrix (GLRLM) from the region of interests (ROIs) in ultrasound images. Three feature selection models, i) Sequential Forward Selection, ii) Sequential Backward Selection, and iii) F-score, are adopted to determine the identification of these liver diseases. Finally, the developed system can classify HCC and liver abscess by SVM with the accuracy of 88.875%. The proposed methods can provide diagnostic assistance while distinguishing two kinds of liver diseases by using a CAD system.

Classification; F-score; Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM); Gray-Level Run-Length Matrix (GLRLM); Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC); Liver Cancer; Liver Abscess; Image Texture, Sequential Backward Selection (SBS); Sequential Forward Selection (SFS); Support Vector Machine (SVM); Ultrasound Image.