Feature extraction for the analysis of colon status from the endoscopic images.docVIP

BioMedical Engineering OnLine BioMedCentral Research Open Access Feature extraction for the analysis of colon status from the endoscopic images Marta P Tjoa* and Shankar M Krishnan Address: Nanyang Techological University, BioMedical Engineering Research Centre, School of Electrical Electronic Eng., 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, 639798 Email: Marta P Tjoa* - ph093147@.sg; Shankar M Krishnan - esmkrish@.sg * Corresponding author Published: 8 April 2003 Received: 29 November 2002 Accepted: 8 April 2003 BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2003, 2:9 This article is available from: /content/2/1/9 ? 2003 Tjoa and Krishnan; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the articles original URL. Abstract Background: Extracting features from the colonoscopic images is essential for getting the features, which characterizes the properties of the colon. The features are employed in the computer-assisted diagnosis of colonoscopic images to assist the physician in detecting the colon status. Methods: Endoscopic images contain rich texture and color information. Novel schemes are developed to extract new texture features from the texture spectra in the chromatic and achromatic domains, and color features for a selected region of interest from each color component histogram of the colonoscopic images. These features are reduced in size using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and are evaluated using Backpropagation Neural Network (BPNN). Results : Features extracted from endoscopic images were tested to classify the colon status as either normal or abnormal. The classification results obtained show the features capability for classifying the colons status. The average classification accuracy, which is using hybr