Characterization of pulmonary nodules features on computer tomography (CT) scans using wavelet coefficients and heat maps

Teresa Osicka; Matthew T. Freedman; Farid Ahmed

doi:10.1117/12.653198

17 March 2006 Characterization of pulmonary nodules features on computer tomography (CT) scans using wavelet coefficients and heat maps

Teresa Osicka, Matthew T. Freedman, Farid Ahmed

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Proceedings Volume 6144, Medical Imaging 2006: Image Processing; 614463 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.653198
Event: Medical Imaging, 2006, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Using CT images from the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), interpreted by radiologists at the Georgetown University, our goal was to investigate the feature extraction method using discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and to demonstrate their potential in distinguishing between benign and malignant nodule status. We analyzed multiple 2 mm thick slices of 40 subjects with benign nodules and 7 subjects with malignant nodules for a total of 112 and 78 slices, respectively. Data was analyzed in the region-of-interest (ROI) that included nodule and surrounding areas in three different-sized windows. A linear discriminant analysis (LDA) of wavelets coefficients was used for data analysis. In particular we examined discriminative power of the wavelet based features using Fisher LDA, and evaluated the classification results using decision matrix (DM) for matched sample (MS). For visualization we used 3-D Heat Maps, originally developed in MATLAB(R) (MathWorks, Natick, MA) for gene expression array analysis, modified to display the magnitude of similarities between cases under analysis. The use of DWT in the image pre-processing modules resulted in a significant improvement in discrimination between benign and malignant nodules. The results show better classification accuracy with the DWT based features, as compared to previously proposed classification features (p-values: 0.008, 0.022, and 0.039, depending on window size). The Heat Maps provide useful data visualization for further investigation as they have the ability to identify cases that should be further explored to understand why some of the benign nodules look similar to malignant in the wavelet domain.

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Teresa Osicka, Matthew T. Freedman, and Farid Ahmed "Characterization of pulmonary nodules features on computer tomography (CT) scans using wavelet coefficients and heat maps", Proc. SPIE 6144, Medical Imaging 2006: Image Processing, 614463 (17 March 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.653198

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