Journal
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
Volume 27, Issue 1, Pages 120-130Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.05.017
Keywords
Brain tumors; MRI; Volumetric textural features; Pattern classification
Funding
- University of Patras Research Committee
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Three-dimensional (313) texture analysis of volumetric brain magnetic resonance (MR) images has been identified as an important indicator for discriminating among different brain pathologies. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of 3D textural features using a pattern recognition system in the task of discriminating benign, malignant and metastatic brain tissues on T-1 postcontrast MR imaging (MRI) series. The dataset consisted of 67 brain MRI series obtained from patients with verified and untreated intracranial tumors. The pattern recognition system was designed as an ensemble classification scheme employing a support vector machine classifier, specially modified in order to integrate the least squares features transformation logic in its kernel function. The latter, in conjunction with using 3D textural features, enabled boosting up the performance of the system in discriminating metastatic, malignant and benign brain tumors with 77.14%, 89.19% and 93.33% accuracy, respectively. The method was evaluated using ail external cross-validation process, thus, results might be considered indicative of the generalization performance of the system to unseen cases. The proposed system might be used as an assisting tool for brain tumor characterization on volumetric MRI series. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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