3D Gray Level Co-Occurrence Matrix Based Classification of Favor Benign and Borderline Types in Follicular Neoplasm Images

Oranit Boonsiri^1*, Kiyotada Washiya², Kota Aoki², Hiroshi Nagahashi²

¹Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
²Department of Imaging Science and Engineering Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.

DOI: 10.4236/jbm.2016.43009                

Abstract

Since the efficiency of treatment of thyroid disorder depends on the risk of malignancy, indeterminate follicular neoplasm (FN) images should be classified. The diagnosis process has been done by visual interpretation of experienced pathologists. However, it is difficult to separate the favor benign from borderline types. Thus, this paper presents a classification approach based on 3D nuclei model to classify favor benign and borderline types of follicular thyroid adenoma (FTA) in cytological specimens. The proposed method utilized 3D gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and random forest classifier. It was applied to 22 data sets of FN images. Furthermore, the use of 3D GLCM was compared with 2D GLCM to evaluate the classification results. From experimental results, the proposed system achieved 95.45% of the classification. The use of 3D GLCM was better than 2D GLCM according to the accuracy of classification. Consequently, the proposed method probably helps a pathologist as a prescreening tool.

Keywords

Thyroid Follicular Lesion, 3D Gray Level Co-Occurrence Matrix, Random Ferest Classifier

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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