Method and system of classifying medical images
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1. A method of generating a category model for classifying medical images, comprising:
- providing a plurality of anatomical medical images imaging at least one internal organ or area of a body;
in each of said plurality of anatomical medical images identifying a plurality of image patches, each image patch is represented by a plurality of repeatable multidimensional features in a pixel area of a respective anatomical medical image and image coordinates of said pixel area in said respective anatomical medical image, wherein said plurality of repeatable multidimensional features of each of the plurality of image patches comprises at least one noise reduction based coefficient and a gray level feature of the image patch;
for each of said image patches, weighting at least some of the noise reduction based coefficient, the gray level feature, and the image coordinates, wherein said weighting is tuned experimentally on a cross-validation set;
generating a plurality of visual words by clustering said plurality of image patches represented by said weighted at least one noise reduction based coefficient, gray level feature, and image coordinates of each one of said plurality of image patches;
modeling a category model mapping a relation between said plurality of visual words;
outputting said category model adapted to categorize a pathology in a new anatomical medical image based on a new set of image patches from said new anatomical medical image and the coordinates of pixel areas of said new set of image patches in said new anatomical medical image,wherein at least one of said providing, generating, modeling, and outputting is performed by at least one processor.
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A method of generating a category model for classifying medical images. The method comprises providing a plurality of medical images each categorized as one of a plurality of categorized groups, generating an index of a plurality of visual words according to a distribution of a plurality of local descriptors in each the image, modeling a category model mapping a relation between each visual word and at least one of the categorized groups according to the index, and outputting the category model for facilitating the categorization of an image based on local descriptors thereof.
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1. A method of generating a category model for classifying medical images, comprising:
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providing a plurality of anatomical medical images imaging at least one internal organ or area of a body; in each of said plurality of anatomical medical images identifying a plurality of image patches, each image patch is represented by a plurality of repeatable multidimensional features in a pixel area of a respective anatomical medical image and image coordinates of said pixel area in said respective anatomical medical image, wherein said plurality of repeatable multidimensional features of each of the plurality of image patches comprises at least one noise reduction based coefficient and a gray level feature of the image patch; for each of said image patches, weighting at least some of the noise reduction based coefficient, the gray level feature, and the image coordinates, wherein said weighting is tuned experimentally on a cross-validation set; generating a plurality of visual words by clustering said plurality of image patches represented by said weighted at least one noise reduction based coefficient, gray level feature, and image coordinates of each one of said plurality of image patches; modeling a category model mapping a relation between said plurality of visual words; outputting said category model adapted to categorize a pathology in a new anatomical medical image based on a new set of image patches from said new anatomical medical image and the coordinates of pixel areas of said new set of image patches in said new anatomical medical image, wherein at least one of said providing, generating, modeling, and outputting is performed by at least one processor. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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