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Semi–Supervised Learning for Image Modality Classification
Type of publication: Inproceedings
Citation: GMJ2015
Booktitle: ECIR workshop MRMD
Year: 2015
Location: Vienna, Austria
Abstract: Searching for medical image content is a regular task for many physicians, especially in radiology. Retrieval of medical images from the scientific literature can benefit from automatic modality classification to focus the search and filter out non–relevant items. Training datasets are often unevenly distributed regarding the classes resulting sometimes in a less than optimal classification performance. This article proposes a semi–supervised learning approach applied using a k–Nearest Neighbour (k–NN) classifier to exploit unlabelled data and to expand the training set. The algorithmic implementation is described and the method is evaluated on the ImageCLEFmed modality classification benchmark. Results show that this approach achieves an improved performance over supervised k–NN and Random Forest classifiers. Moreover, medical case–based retrieval benefits from the modality filter.
Keywords: case-based retrieval, crowdsourcing, image classification, semi-supervised learning
Authors García Seco de Herrera, Alba
Markonis, Dimitrios
Joyseeree, Ranveer
Schaer, Roger
Foncubierta-Rodríguez, Antonio
Müller, Henning
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