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A Comparative Analysis of Single and Combination Feature Extraction Techniques for Detecting Cervical Cancer Lesions


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1 Centre for Information Technology & Engineering, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, India
2 Department of Computer Science, St. Xavier's College, Palayamkottai, India
     

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Cervical cancer is the third most common form of cancer affecting women especially in third world countries. The predominant reason for such alarming rate of death is primarily due to lack of awareness and proper health care. As they say, prevention is better than cure, a better strategy has to be put in place to screen a large number of women so that an early diagnosis can help in saving their lives. One such strategy is to implement an automated system. For an automated system to function properly a proper set of features have to be extracted so that the cancer cell can be detected efficiently. In this paper we compare the performances of detecting a cancer cell using a single feature versus a combination feature set technique to see which will suit the automated system in terms of higher detection rate. For this each cell is segmented using multiscale morphological watershed segmentation technique and a series of features are extracted. This process is performed on 967 images and the data extracted is subjected to data mining techniques to determine which feature is best for which stage of cancer. The results thus obtained clearly show a higher percentage of success for combination feature set with 100% accurate detection rate.

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Cervical Cancer, Feature Extraction, Texture Features, Content Based Image Retrieval.
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  • A Comparative Analysis of Single and Combination Feature Extraction Techniques for Detecting Cervical Cancer Lesions

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S. Pradeep Kumar Kenny
Centre for Information Technology & Engineering, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, India
S. P. Victor
Department of Computer Science, St. Xavier's College, Palayamkottai, India

Abstract


Cervical cancer is the third most common form of cancer affecting women especially in third world countries. The predominant reason for such alarming rate of death is primarily due to lack of awareness and proper health care. As they say, prevention is better than cure, a better strategy has to be put in place to screen a large number of women so that an early diagnosis can help in saving their lives. One such strategy is to implement an automated system. For an automated system to function properly a proper set of features have to be extracted so that the cancer cell can be detected efficiently. In this paper we compare the performances of detecting a cancer cell using a single feature versus a combination feature set technique to see which will suit the automated system in terms of higher detection rate. For this each cell is segmented using multiscale morphological watershed segmentation technique and a series of features are extracted. This process is performed on 967 images and the data extracted is subjected to data mining techniques to determine which feature is best for which stage of cancer. The results thus obtained clearly show a higher percentage of success for combination feature set with 100% accurate detection rate.

Keywords


Cervical Cancer, Feature Extraction, Texture Features, Content Based Image Retrieval.