Evidential reasoning based on Dempster-Shafer theory and its application to medical image analysis

Shiuh-Yung James Chen; Wei-Chung Lin; Chin-Tu Chen

doi:10.1117/12.162048

29 October 1993 Evidential reasoning based on Dempster-Shafer theory and its application to medical image analysis

Shiuh-Yung James Chen, Wei-Chung Lin, Chin-Tu Chen

Proceedings Volume 2032, Neural and Stochastic Methods in Image and Signal Processing II; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.162048
Event: SPIE's 1993 International Symposium on Optics, Imaging, and Instrumentation, 1993, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we propose the knowledge representation and evidence propagation schemes based on multivariate belief functions and present a medical image recognition system as an example to demonstrate their effectiveness in evidential reasoning. The multivariate belief functions, defined in a product space, are employed to represent domain specific knowledge such as rules or propositions. The product space and its sub-spaces (margins) are composed of a set of compatible frames. The logical relationships among these margins can be easily defined by using multivariate belief functions. Propagation of evidence is executed by extending or marginalizing the associated multivariate belief function to those margins characterized by their logical relationships. By using the blackboard-based architecture and the profound features of D-S theory, the proposed image recognition system is capable of mimicking the reasoning process of a human expert in recognizing anatomical entities efficiently in a set of correlated x-ray computed tomography, proton density weighted, and T₂-weighted magnetic resonance images. Additionally, the proposed schemes can be also applied to other problem domains by employing the appropriate knowledge base. Several experiment results are given to illustrate the performance of the proposed system.

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Shiuh-Yung James Chen, Wei-Chung Lin, and Chin-Tu Chen "Evidential reasoning based on Dempster-Shafer theory and its application to medical image analysis", Proc. SPIE 2032, Neural and Stochastic Methods in Image and Signal Processing II, (29 October 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.162048

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