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Textural Analysis of Spinous Layer for Grading Oral Submucous Fibrosis
| International Journal of Computer Applications |
| Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
| Volume 48 - Number 22 |
| Year of Publication: 2012 |
| Authors: Rusha Patra, Chandan Chakraborty, Jyotirmoy Chatterjee |
10.5120/7513-0563
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Rusha Patra, Chandan Chakraborty, Jyotirmoy Chatterjee . Textural Analysis of Spinous Layer for Grading Oral Submucous Fibrosis. International Journal of Computer Applications. 48, 22 ( June 2012), 33-37. DOI=10.5120/7513-0563
Abstract
Spinous layer being a sub compartment of surface epithelium of oral mucosa, plays also major role in investigating oral submucous fibrosis (OSF) at its early stage in addition to basal layer. This paper aims to provide a technique that can be used to assist the oral pathologists in grading OSF based on textural information of the spinous layer. The proposed scheme intends to evaluate the textural changes from normal to various grades of OSF. In practice, it comprises the following modules – (a) surface epithelium segmentation, (b) selection of windows on the spinous layer in reference to the basal layer, (c) textural feature extraction and analysis and finally (d) grading. Here the epithelium is segmented using anisotropic diffusion and Otsu's thresholding. Wavelet based multi-resolution technique is applied to extract 12 textural features from spinous layer. From the statistical analysis, it is observed that 6 features are significant in discriminating normal, OSF with and without dysplasia. Finally, support vector machine (SVM) and Bayesian classifiers are trained with 46 normal, 24 OSF without dysplasia and 20 OSF with dysplasia samples for OSF grading. The result shows that the classification accuracies for both the classifiers (Bayesian = 93. 3%, SVM = 96. 6%) are comparable, there by emphasizing the significance of texture in oral cancer diagnostics.
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