H.5. Image Processing and Computer Vision
Farima Fakouri; Mohsen Nikpour; Abbas Soleymani Amiri
Abstract
Due to the increased mortality caused by brain tumors, accurate and fast diagnosis of brain tumors is necessary to implement the treatment of this disease. In this research, brain tumor classification performed using a network based on ResNet architecture in MRI images. MRI images that available in the ...
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Due to the increased mortality caused by brain tumors, accurate and fast diagnosis of brain tumors is necessary to implement the treatment of this disease. In this research, brain tumor classification performed using a network based on ResNet architecture in MRI images. MRI images that available in the cancer image archive database included 159 patients. First, two filters called median and Gaussian filters were used to improve the quality of the images. An edge detection operator is also used to identify the edges of the image. Second, the proposed network was first trained with the original images of the database, then with Gaussian filtered and Median filtered images. Finally, accuracy, specificity and sensitivity criteria have been used to evaluate the results. Proposed method in this study was lead to 87.21%, 90.35% and 93.86% accuracy for original, Gaussian filtered and Median filtered images. Also, the sensitivity and specificity was calculated 82.3% and 84.3% for the original images, respectively. Sensitivity for Gaussian and Median filtered images was calculated 90.8% and 91.57%, respectively and specificity was calculated 93.01% and 93.36%, respectively. As a conclusion, image processing approaches in preprocessing stage should be investigated to improve the performance of deep learning networks.
H.5.11. Image Representation
M. Nikpour; R. Karami; R. Ghaderi
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Sparse coding is an unsupervised method which learns a set of over-complete bases to represent data such as image and video. Sparse coding has increasing attraction for image classification applications in recent years. But in the cases where we have some similar images from different classes, such as ...
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Sparse coding is an unsupervised method which learns a set of over-complete bases to represent data such as image and video. Sparse coding has increasing attraction for image classification applications in recent years. But in the cases where we have some similar images from different classes, such as face recognition applications, different images may be classified into the same class, and hence the classification performance may be decreased. In this paper, we propose an Affine Graph Regularized Sparse Coding approach for face recognition problem. Experiments on several well-known face datasets show that the proposed method can significantly improve the face classification accuracy. In addition, some experiments have been done to illustrate the robustness of the proposed method to noise. The results show the superiority of the proposed method in comparison to some other methods in face classification.