Abstract
The examination of plantar fascia (PF) ultrasound (US) images is subjective and based on the visual perceptions and manual biometric measurements carried out by medical experts. US images feature extraction, characterization and classification have been widely introduced for improving the accuracy of medical assessment, reducing its subjective nature and the time required by medical experts for PF pathology diagnosis. In this paper, we develop an automated supervised classification approach using the Support Vector Machine (Linear and Kernel) to distinguishes between symptomatic and asymptomatic PF cases. Such an approach will facilitate the characterization and the classification of the PF area for the identification of patients with inferior heel pain at risk of plantar fasciitis. Six feature sets were extracted from the segmented PF region. Additionally, features normalization, features ranking and selection analysis using an unsupervised infinity selection method were introduced for the characterization and the classification of symptomatic and asymptomatic PF subjects.
The performance of the classifiers was assessed using confusion matrix attributes and some derived performance measures including recall, specificity, balanced accuracy, precision, F-score and Matthew’s correlation coefficient. Using the best selected features sets, Linear SVM and Kernel SVM achieved an F-Score of 97.06 and 98.05 respectively.
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Boussouar, A., Meziane, F., Walton, L.A. (2020). Plantar Fascia Ultrasound Images Characterization and Classification Using Support Vector Machine. In: Hassanien, A., Shaalan, K., Tolba, M. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2019. AISI 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1058. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31129-2_10
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