Usage of eigenvector methods to improve reliable classifier for Doppler ultrasound signals

A new approach based on the implementation of the automated diagnostic systems for Doppler ultrasound signals classification with the features extracted by eigenvector methods is presented. In practical applications of pattern recognition, there are often diverse features extracted from raw data which needs recognizing. Because of the importance of making the right decision, the present work is carried out for searching better classification procedures for the Doppler ultrasound signals. Decision making was performed in two stages: feature extraction by the eigenvector methods and classification using the classifiers trained on the extracted features. The aim of the study is classification of the Doppler ultrasound signals by the combination of eigenvector methods and the classifiers. The present research demonstrated that the power levels of the power spectral density (PSD) estimates obtained by the eigenvector methods are the features which well represent the Doppler ultrasound signals and the probabilistic neural networks (PNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs) trained on these features achieved high classification accuracies.     

Probabilistic neural networks employing Lyapunov exponents for analysis of Doppler ultrasound signals

The implementation of probabilistic neural networks (PNNs) with the Lyapunov exponents for Doppler ultrasound signals classification is presented. This study is directly based on the consideration that Doppler ultrasound signals are chaotic signals. This consideration was tested successfully using the nonlinear dynamics tools, like the computation of Lyapunov exponents. Decision making was performed in two stages: computation of Lyapunov exponents as representative features of the Doppler ultrasound signals and classification using the PNNs trained on the extracted features. The present research demonstrated that the Lyapunov exponents are the features which well represent the Doppler ultrasound signals and the PNNs trained on these features achieved high classification accuracies.     

Statistics over features for internal carotid arterial disorders detection

The objective of the present study is to extract the representative features of the internal carotid arterial (ICA) Doppler ultrasound signals and to present the accurate classification model. This paper presented the usage of statistics over the set of the extracted features (Lyapunov exponents and the power levels of the power spectral density estimates obtained by the eigenvector methods) in order to reduce the dimensionality of the extracted feature vectors. Since classification is more accurate when the pattern is simplified through representation by important features, feature extraction and selection play an important role in classifying systems such as neural networks. Mixture of experts (ME) and modified mixture of experts (MME) architectures were formulated and used as basis for detection of arterial disorders. Three types of ICA Doppler signals (Doppler signals recorded from healthy subjects, subjects having stenosis, and subjects having occlusion) were classified. The classification results confirmed that the proposed ME and MME has potential in detecting the arterial disorders.     

Denoising performance of modified dual-tree complex wavelet transform for processing quadrature embolic Doppler signals

Quadrature signals are dual-channel signals obtained from the systems employing quadrature demodulation. Embolic Doppler ultrasound signals obtained from stroke-prone patients by using Doppler ultrasound systems are quadrature signals caused by emboli, which are particles bigger than red blood cells within circulatory system. Detection of emboli is an important step in diagnosing stroke. Most widely used parameter in detection of emboli is embolic signal-to-background signal ratio. Therefore, in order to increase this ratio, denoising techniques are employed in detection systems. Discrete wavelet transform has been used for denoising of embolic signals, but it lacks shift invariance property. Instead, dual-tree complex wavelet transform having near-shift invariance property can be used. However, it is computationally expensive as two wavelet trees are required. Recently proposed modified dual-tree complex wavelet transform, which reduces the computational complexity, can also be used. In this study, the denoising performance of this method is extensively evaluated and compared with the others by using simulated and real quadrature signals. The quantitative results demonstrated that the modified dual-tree-complex-wavelet-transform-based denoising outperforms the conventional discrete wavelet transform with the same level of computational complexity and exhibits almost equal performance to the dual-tree complex wavelet transform with almost half computational cost.     

Classification of carotid artery Doppler signals in the early phase of atherosclerosis using complex-valued artificial neural network

In this study, carotid arterial Doppler ultrasound signals were acquired from left carotid arteries of 38 patients and 40 healthy volunteers. The patient group had an established diagnosis of the early phase of atherosclerosis through coronary or aortofemoropopliteal angiographies. Results were classified using complex-valued artificial neural network (CVANN). Principal component analysis (PCA) and fuzzy c-means clustering (FCM) algorithm were used to make a CVANN system more effective. For this aim, before classifying with CVANN, PCA method was used for feature extraction in PCA-CVANN architecture and FCM algorithm was used for data set reduction in FCM-CVANN architecture. Training and test data were selected randomly using 10-fold cross validation. PCA-CVANN and FCM-CVANN architectures classified healthy and unhealthy subjects for training and test data with about 100% correct classification rate. These results shown that PCA-CVANN and FCM-CVANN classified Doppler signals successfully.     

Ant colony optimization-based feature selection method for surface electromyography signals classification

This paper presented a new ant colony optimization (ACO) feature selection method to classify hand motion surface electromyography (sEMG) signals. The multiple channels of sEMG recordings make the dimensionality of sEMG feature grow dramatically. It is known that the informative feature subset with small size is a precondition for the accurate and computationally efficient classification strategy. Therefore, this study proposed an ACO based feature selection scheme using the heuristic information measured by the minimum redundancy maximum relevance criterion (ACO-mRMR). The experiments were conducted on ten subjects with eight upper limb motions. Two feature sets, i.e., time domain features combined with autoregressive model coefficients (TDAR) and wavelet transform (WT) features, were extracted from the recorded sEMG signals. The average classification accuracies of using ACO reduced TDAR and WT features were 95.45±2.2% and 96.08±3.3%, respectively. The principal component analysis (PCA) was also conducted on the same data sets for comparison. The average classification accuracies of using PCA reduced TDAR and WT features were 91.51±4.9% and 89.87±4.4%, respectively. The results demonstrated that the proposed ACO-mRMR based feature selection method can achieve considerably high classification rates in sEMG motion classification task and be applicable to other biomedical signals pattern analysis.     

Discrimination between emboli and artifacts for outpatient transcranial Doppler ultrasound data

This paper addresses the detection of emboli in transcranial Doppler ultrasound data acquired from an original portable device. The challenge is the removal of several artifacts (motion and voice) intrinsically related to long-duration (up to 1 h 40 mn per patient) outpatient signals monitoring from this device, as well as high intensities due to the stochastic nature of blood flow. This paper proposes an adapted removal procedure. This firstly consists of reducing the background noise and detecting the blood flow in the time–frequency domain using a likelihood method for contour detection. Then, a hierarchical extraction of features from magnitude and bounding boxes is achieved for the discrimination of emboli and artifacts. After processing of the long-duration outpatient signals, the number of artifacts predicted as emboli is considerably reduced (by 92% for some parameter values) between the first and the last step of our algorithm.     

Complex Frequency Features for TCD Signal Analysis

In this paper, we report on using pattern recognition techniques for embolic signal(ES) detection based on transcranial doppler ultrasound(TCD) audio data collected via machine EMS-9(from Shenzhen Delicate Electronics, Co. Ltd).Firstly, we adopted complex discrete fourier transform to get spectra of audio recordings; secondly, we used principal component analysis(PCA) for the visualization of selected signals, which makes it easy and intuitive to verify whether a signal contains an embolic component; finally we designed the classifier with support vector machines(SVM) for detection. With contrast to traditional methods of ES detection systems, the proposed approach considers two channel signals from the audio data collected by single transducer, and there is no predefined features for classification. The primary experimental results on real data are promising.     

An expert system based on principal component analysis, artificial immune system and fuzzy k-NN for diagnosis of valvular heart diseases

In the last two decades, the use of artificial intelligence methods in medical analysis is increasing. This is mainly because the effectiveness of classification and detection systems have improved a great deal to help the medical experts in diagnosing. In this work, we investigate the use of principal component analysis (PCA), artificial immune system (AIS) and fuzzy k-NN to determine the normal and abnormal heart valves from the Doppler heart sounds. The proposed heart valve disorder detection system is composed of three stages. The first stage is the pre-processing stage. Filtering, normalization and white de-noising are the processes that were used in this stage. The feature extraction is the second stage. During feature extraction stage, wavelet packet decomposition was used. As a next step, wavelet entropy was considered as features. For reducing the complexity of the system, PCA was used for feature reduction. In the classification stage, AIS and fuzzy k-NN were used. To evaluate the performance of the proposed methodology, a comparative study is realized by using a data set containing 215 samples. The validation of the proposed method is measured by using the sensitivity and specificity parameters; 95.9% sensitivity and 96% specificity rate was obtained.     

基于模糊推理的心拍分类

心拍分类对于临床心律失常自动化检测非常重要。临床上对心拍分类的诊断标准存在一定的不确定性,模糊推理可以较好地表达心拍分类过程中的不确定性,而隶属度函数的设计是模糊推理系统的关键问题。本研究提取较为精确的QRS复合波间期和RR间期特征组成模糊输入量;通过对MIT-BIH心律失常心电数据库的所有正常拍和室性早搏模糊输入量进行统计分析,提出了一种设计隶属度函数的具体思路,并实现了一个用于心拍分类的模糊推理系统。通过对MIT-BIH心律失常心电数据库测试,该系统心拍分类结果较好,具有临床应用价值。     

Ensemble adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system with weighted arithmetical mean and application to diagnosis of optic nerve disease from visual-evoked potential signals

OBJECTIVE: This paper presents a new method based on combining principal component analysis (PCA) and adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) to diagnose the optic nerve disease from visual-evoked potential (VEP) signals. The aim of this study is to improve the classification accuracy of ANFIS classifier on diagnosis of optic nerve disease from VEP signals. With this aim, a new classifier ensemble based on ANFIS and PCA is proposed. METHODS AND MATERIAL: The VEP signals dataset include 61 healthy subjects and 68 patients suffered from optic nerve disease. First of all, the dimension of VEP signals dataset with 63 features has been reduced to 4 features using PCA. After applying PCA, ANFIS trained using three different training-testing datasets randomly with 50-50% training-testing partition. RESULTS: The obtained classification results from ANFIS trained separately with three different training-testing datasets are 96.87%, 98.43%, and 98.43%, respectively. And then the results of ANFIS trained with three different training-testing datasets randomly with 50-50% training-testing partition have been combined with three different ways including weighted arithmetical mean that proposed firstly by us, arithmetical mean, and geometrical mean. The classification results of ANFIS combined with three different ways are 98.43%, 100%, and 100%, respectively. Also, ensemble ANFIS has been compared with ANN ensemble. ANN ensemble obtained 98.43%, 100%, and 100% prediction accuracy with three different ways including arithmetical mean, geometrical mean and weighted arithmetical mean. CONCLUSION: These results have shown that the proposed classifier ensemble approach based on ANFIS trained with different train-test datasets and PCA has produced very promising results in the diagnosis of optic nerve disease from VEP signals.     

超声多普勒血流和管壁搏动信号的分离研究

目的针对超声多普勒血流检测中,传统的高通滤波法在滤除管壁搏动信号的同时也会滤除低频血流信号的问题,本研究提出一种以心电信号（electrocardiography,ECG）作为参考信号的自适应滤波的方法消除管壁干扰。方法包括两方面：其一,采用心电信号作为参考信号对超声多普勒信号进行自适应滤波;其二,采用多级自适应滤波并选择不同的参考信号的滤波方案。分别使用上述方法和高通滤波法对仿真的超声多普勒信号进行处理,并将结果进行比较。结果与传统的高通滤波法相比,该方法在有效抑制管壁搏动信号的同时保留一部分低频血流信号成分。结论该方法能较准确地提取出完整的血流超声多普勒信号,具有一定的临床应用价值。     

超声编码激励功率M型多普勒栓子检测的实验研究

超声栓子检测对于研究和预防缺血性脑卒中具有重要的意义.功率M型多普勒(power M-mode Doppler,PMD)在全面直观地反映栓子运动方面具有很大的优势,但如果采用传统的长脉冲激励方法,则在检测灵敏度与距离分辨率方面就存在一定的缺陷.本文从超声栓子检测原理出发,采用编码激励方法改善PMD栓子检测效果,并在设计搭建的实验平台上研究了编码激励PMD栓子检测的性能.实验结果验证了理论分析的结论,得出编码激励有利于提高PMD栓子检测的轴向分辨率和提高栓子与背景血流信号的能量比.     

基于信号处理技术的癌症检测和分类方法研究

本文在介绍激光诱导血清自体荧光-共振喇曼光谱用于癌症诊断的物理学依据的基础上，详细讨论了利用小波理论对激光诱导血清自体荧光-共振喇曼光谱进行分析。提取用于癌症检测与分类特征。然后利用神经网络对各个特征进行学习，得到它们对癌症的隶属函数，再利用模糊神经网络对癌症进行检测和分类的方法。该方法实现了癌症检测和分类的自动化。使癌症检测和分类的正确率得到很大提高。     

基于PCA及SVM的运动想象脑电信号识别研究

为了解决脑机接口(BCI)中不同意识任务下运动想象脑电信号的分类问题,提出了一种基于PCA及SVM的识别方法。针对Hilbert-Huang变换和AR模型提取的脑电信号特征,首先采用主成分分析PCA对高维特征向量进行降维处理,然后用支持向量机进行分类。最后将本方法分类结果和Fisher线性分类、概率神经网络分类结果进行比较。实验结果表明,该方法分类正确率较高,复杂度低,具有一定的有效性,可用于脑机接口中。     

SVM-Based CAC System for B-Mode Kidney Ultrasound Images

The present study proposes a computer-aided classification (CAC) system for three kidney classes, viz. normal, medical renal disease (MRD) and cyst using B-mode ultrasound images. Thirty-five B-mode kidney ultrasound images consisting of 11 normal images, 8 MRD images and 16 cyst images have been used. Regions of interest (ROIs) have been marked by the radiologist from the parenchyma region of the kidney in case of normal and MRD cases and from regions inside lesions for cyst cases. To evaluate the contribution of texture features extracted from de-speckled images for the classification task, original images have been pre-processed by eight de-speckling methods. Six categories of texture features are extracted. One-against-one multi-class support vector machine (SVM) classifier has been used for the present work. Based on overall classification accuracy (OCA), features from ROIs of original images are concatenated with the features from ROIs of pre-processed images. On the basis of OCA, few feature sets are considered for feature selection. Differential evolution feature selection (DEFS) has been used to select optimal features for the classification task. DEFS process is repeated 30 times to obtain 30 subsets. Run-length matrix features from ROIs of images pre-processed by Lee’s sigma concatenated with that of enhanced Lee method have resulted in an average accuracy (in %) and standard deviation of 86.3 ± 1.6. The results obtained in the study indicate that the performance of the proposed CAC system is promising, and it can be used by the radiologists in routine clinical practice for the classification of renal diseases.     

基于定量影像组学的乳腺肿瘤良恶性诊断

乳腺癌是女性致死率最高的恶性肿瘤之一。为提高诊断效率,提供给医生更加客观和准确的诊断结果。借助影像组学的方法,利用公开数据集BreaKHis中82例患者的乳腺肿瘤病理图像,提取乳腺肿瘤病理图像的灰度特征、Haralick纹理特征、局部二值模式(LBP)特征和Gabor特征共139维影像组学特征,并用主成分分析(PCA)对影像组学特征进行降维,然后利用随机森林(RF)、极限学习机(ELM)、支持向量机(SVM)、k最近邻(kNN)等4种不同的分类器构建乳腺肿瘤良恶性的诊断模型,并对上述不同的特征集进行评估。结果表明,基于支持向量机的影像组学特征的分类效果最好,准确率能达到88.2%,灵敏性达到86.62%,特异性达到89.82%。影像组学方法可为乳腺肿瘤良恶性预测提供一种新型的检测手段,使乳腺肿瘤良恶性临床诊断的准确率得到很大提升。     

An Automated Neural-Fuzzy Approach to Malignant Tumor Localization in 2D Ultrasonic Images of the Prostate

In this paper, a new neural-fuzzy approach is proposed for automated region segmentation in transrectal ultrasound images of the prostate. The goal of region segmentation is to identify suspicious regions in the prostate in order to provide decision support for the diagnosis of prostate cancer. The new automated region segmentation system uses expert knowledge as well as both textural and spatial features in the image to accomplish the segmentation. The textural information is extracted by two recurrent random pulsed neural networks trained by two sets of data (a suspicious tissues’ data set and a normal tissues’ data set). Spatial information is captured by the atlas-based reference approach and is represented as fuzzy membership functions. The textural and spatial features are synthesized by a fuzzy inference system, which provides a binary classification of the region to be evaluated.     

超声多普勒血流信号的小波特征提取及分类

利用小波变换对超声多普勒血流信号的最大频率曲线进行多尺度分析， 并从时间－尺度图上提取出模极大值的变化曲线。将这种方法应用到颈动脉血流的分析中，发现：该曲线对于脑血管床正常和异常的病例具有不同的形态。通过对该曲线进行多项式拟合，并将拟合的系数作为非线性变换单元组成的前馈网络（BP网络）的输入进行分类，临床试用效果良好，表明该方法为临床诊断脑血管疾病提供了一个新的依据。     

A novel real-time patient-specific seizure diagnosis algorithm based on analysis of EEG and ECG signals using spectral and spatial features and improved particle swarm optimization classifier

This paper proposes a novel real-time patient-specific seizure diagnosis algorithm based on analysis of electroencephalogram (EEG) and electrocardiogram (ECG) signals to detect seizure onset. In this algorithm, spectral and spatial features are selected from seizure and non-seizure EEG signals by Gabor functions and principal component analysis (PCA). Furthermore, four features based on heart rate acceleration are extracted from ECG signals to form feature vector. Then a neural network classifier based on improved particle swarm optimization (IPSO) learning algorithm is developed to determine an optimal nonlinear decision boundary. This classifier allows to adjust the parameters of the neural network classifier, efficiently. This algorithm can automatically detect the presence of seizures with minimum delay which is an important factor from a clinical viewpoint. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated on a dataset consisting of 154 h records and 633 seizures from 12 patients. The results indicate that the algorithm can recognize the seizures with the smallest latency and higher good detection rate (GDR) than other presented algorithms in the literature.