Nonlinear Deterministic Methods for Computer Aided Diagnosis in Case of Kidney Diseases

Andreea Udrea, Mihai Tanase, Dumitru Popescu

2012

Abstract

This paper proposes a set of nonlinear deterministic methods derived from chaos theory that can serve as computed aided diagnosis tools for kidney diseases based on computer topographies (CT). These procedures target the classification of the analyzed tissue samples in normal, malign and benign affected and also enhanced visualization of the CT images. The classification methods consist in estimating the fractal dimension of the kidney tissue and, respectively, the correlation dimension of the attractor obtained from the spatial series associated to the kidney image. The enhanced visualization method associates a fractal map to the analysed image. The methods are tested on 120 CTs presenting normal and modified tissue. The degree of trustworthiness of the methods while dealing with classifications is discussed based on statistical results and samples of fractal maps associated to the images are also presented.

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Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Udrea A., Tanase M. and Popescu D. (2012). Nonlinear Deterministic Methods for Computer Aided Diagnosis in Case of Kidney Diseases . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-8565-21-1, pages 511-516. DOI: 10.5220/0004039405110516

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco12,
author={Andreea Udrea and Mihai Tanase and Dumitru Popescu},
title={Nonlinear Deterministic Methods for Computer Aided Diagnosis in Case of Kidney Diseases},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2012},
pages={511-516},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004039405110516},
isbn={978-989-8565-21-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - Nonlinear Deterministic Methods for Computer Aided Diagnosis in Case of Kidney Diseases
SN - 978-989-8565-21-1
AU - Udrea A.
AU - Tanase M.
AU - Popescu D.
PY - 2012
SP - 511
EP - 516
DO - 10.5220/0004039405110516