Integrated feature extraction and selection for neuroimage classification

Yong Fan; Dinggang Shen

doi:10.1117/12.811781

27 March 2009 Integrated feature extraction and selection for neuroimage classification

Yong Fan, Dinggang Shen

Proceedings Volume 7259, Medical Imaging 2009: Image Processing; 72591U (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.811781
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2009, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando Area), Florida, United States

Abstract

Feature extraction and selection are of great importance in neuroimage classification for identifying informative features and reducing feature dimensionality, which are generally implemented as two separate steps. This paper presents an integrated feature extraction and selection algorithm with two iterative steps: constrained subspace learning based feature extraction and support vector machine (SVM) based feature selection. The subspace learning based feature extraction focuses on the brain regions with higher possibility of being affected by the disease under study, while the possibility of brain regions being affected by disease is estimated by the SVM based feature selection, in conjunction with SVM classification. This algorithm can not only take into account the inter-correlation among different brain regions, but also overcome the limitation of traditional subspace learning based feature extraction methods. To achieve robust performance and optimal selection of parameters involved in feature extraction, selection, and classification, a bootstrapping strategy is used to generate multiple versions of training and testing sets for parameter optimization, according to the classification performance measured by the area under the ROC (receiver operating characteristic) curve. The integrated feature extraction and selection method is applied to a structural MR image based Alzheimer's disease (AD) study with 98 non-demented and 100 demented subjects. Cross-validation results indicate that the proposed algorithm can improve performance of the traditional subspace learning based classification.

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Yong Fan and Dinggang Shen "Integrated feature extraction and selection for neuroimage classification", Proc. SPIE 7259, Medical Imaging 2009: Image Processing, 72591U (27 March 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.811781

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