Fuzzy similarity measures for ultrasound tissue characterization

Salem M. Emara; Ahmed M. Badawi; Abou-Bakr M. Youssef

doi:10.1117/12.205257

28 March 1995 Fuzzy similarity measures for ultrasound tissue characterization

Salem M. Emara, Ahmed M. Badawi, Abou-Bakr M. Youssef

Proceedings Volume 2424, Nonlinear Image Processing VI; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.205257
Event: IS&T/SPIE's Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, 1995, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Computerized ultrasound tissue characterization has become an objective means for diagnosis of diseases. It is difficult to differentiate diffuse liver diseases, namely cirrhotic and fatty liver from a normal one, by visual inspection from the ultrasound images. The visual criteria for differentiating diffused diseases is rather confusing and highly dependent upon the sonographer's experience. The need for computerized tissue characterization is thus justified to quantitatively assist the sonographer for accurate differentiation and to minimize the degree of risk from erroneous interpretation. In this paper we used the fuzzy similarity measure as an approximate reasoning technique to find the maximum degree of matching between an unknown case defined by a feature vector and a family of prototypes (knowledge base). The feature vector used for the matching process contains 8 quantitative parameters (textural, acoustical, and speckle parameters) extracted from the ultrasound image. The steps done to match an unknown case with the family of prototypes (cirr, fatty, normal) are: Choosing the membership functions for each parameter, then obtaining the fuzzification matrix for the unknown case and the family of prototypes, then by the linguistic evaluation of two fuzzy quantities we obtain the similarity matrix, then by a simple aggregation method and the fuzzy integrals we obtain the degree of similarity. Finally, we find that the similarity measure results are comparable to the neural network classification techniques and it can be used in medical diagnosis to determine the pathology of the liver and to monitor the extent of the disease.

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Salem M. Emara, Ahmed M. Badawi, and Abou-Bakr M. Youssef "Fuzzy similarity measures for ultrasound tissue characterization", Proc. SPIE 2424, Nonlinear Image Processing VI, (28 March 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.205257

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