Title |
A Decision-Support Tool for Renal Mass Classification
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Published in |
Journal of Digital Imaging, July 2018
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DOI | 10.1007/s10278-018-0100-0 |
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Authors |
Gautam Kunapuli, Bino A. Varghese, Priya Ganapathy, Bhushan Desai, Steven Cen, Manju Aron, Inderbir Gill, Vinay Duddalwar |
Abstract |
We investigate the viability of statistical relational machine learning algorithms for the task of identifying malignancy of renal masses using radiomics-based imaging features. Features characterizing the texture, signal intensity, and other relevant metrics of the renal mass were extracted from multiphase contrast-enhanced computed tomography images. The recently developed formalism of relational functional gradient boosting (RFGB) was used to learn human-interpretable models for classification. Experimental results demonstrate that RFGB outperforms many standard machine learning approaches as well as the current diagnostic gold standard of visual qualification by radiologists. |
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