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Honeycombing is a disease pattern seen in High-Resolution Computed Tomography which allows a confident diagnosis of a number of diseases involving fibrosis of the lung. An accurate quantification of honeycombing allows radiologists to determine the progress of the disease process. Previous techniques commonly applied a classifier over the whole lung image to detect lung pathologies. This resulted in spurious classifications of honeycombing in regions where the presence of honeycombing was highly improbable. In this paper, we present a novel technique which uses a seeded region growing algorithm to guide the classifier to regions with potential honeycombing. We show that the proposed technique improves the accuracy of the honeycombing detection. The technique was tested using ten-fold cross validation on forty two images over eight different patients. The proposed technique classified regions of interests with an accuracy of 89.7%, sensitivity of 96.6% and a specificity of 88.6%.
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Wong, J.S.J., Zrimec, T. (2006). Classification of Lung Disease Pattern Using Seeded Region Growing. In: Sattar, A., Kang, Bh. (eds) AI 2006: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4304. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11941439_27
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