Combination of hand-crafted and unsupervised learned features for ischemic stroke lesion detection from Magnetic Resonance Images

Publication date: Available online 14 February 2019Source: Biocybernetics and Biomedical EngineeringAuthor(s): G.B. Praveen, Anita Agrawal, Ponraj Sundaram, Sanjay SardesaiAbstractDetection of ischemic stroke lesions plays a vital role in the assessment of stroke treatments such as thrombolytic therapy and embolectomy. Manual detection and quantification of stroke lesions is a time-consuming and cumbersome process. In this paper, we present a novel automatic method to detect acute ischemic stroke lesions from Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) volumes using textural and unsupervised learned features. The proposed method proficiently exploits the 3D contextual evidence using a patch-based approach, which extracts patches randomly from the input MR volumes. Textural feature extraction (TFE) using Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) and unsupervised feature learning (UFL) based on k-means clustering approaches are employed independently to extract features from the input patches. These features obtained from the two feature extractors are then given as input to the Random Forest (RF) classifier to discriminate between normal and lesion classes. A hybrid approach based on the combination of TFE using GLCM and UFL based on the k-means clustering is proposed in this work. Hybrid combination approach results in more discriminative feature set compared with the traditional approaches. The proposed method has been evaluated on the Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation (ISLES) 2015 traini...
Source: Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering - Category: Biomedical Engineering Source Type: research