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Computed tomography images are widely used in the diagnosis of intracranial hematoma and hemorrhage. This paper presents a new approach for automated diagnosis based on classification of the normal and abnormal images of computed tomography. The computed tomography images used in the classification consists of non-enhanced computed tomography images. The proposed method consists of four stages namely pre-processing, feature extraction, feature reduction and classification. The discrete wavelet transform coefficients are the features extracted in this method. The essential coefficients are selected by the principal component analysis. The features derived are used to train the binary classifier, which infer automatically whether the image is that of a normal brain or a pathological brain, suffering from brain lesion. The proposed method has been evaluated on a dataset of 80 images. A classification with a success of 92, 97 and 98 % has been obtained by artificial neural network, k-nearest neighbor and support vector machine, respectively. This result shows that the proposed technique is robust and effective.
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Hema Rajini, N., Bhavani, R. Automatic classification of computed tomography brain images using ANN, k-NN and SVM. AI & Soc 29, 97–102 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-013-0442-6
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