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Enhanced textural analysis for endometrial tuberculosis identification from ultrasound images

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Endometrial Tuberculosis (ETB) is a major observation in Infertility due to Female Genital Tuberculosis (FGTB). Transvaginal ultrasound (TVUS) images are used to initiate the diagnostic procedure. An effective computational method to identify and classify ETB from TVUS images is presented in this paper. The images from female patients have been collected from medical centers in India. A composite co-occurrence model is proposed; where a Non-Subsampled Contourlet Transformation (NSCT) enhances the textural appearances of the images before feature extraction. Since original TVUS are inherently ill defined; the transformation highlights the directional, multi- scale spectral texture features for discriminatory analysis. Experimental results show that the textural features extracted from these transformed images are more discriminative. The proposed approach achieved an F-score of 0.821and a sensitivity of 0.801 for the dataset in hand. A dimensionality reduction of 66.6% is achieved by Entropy based Normalized Mutual Information ranking and subsequent feature subset selection for classification.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Yashoda Hospital, Kaushambi for assisting this research with the dataset as no public dataset is available. The dataset was enriched and expert support was provided by Dr. Vibha Bansal, Sai Polyclinic, a leading gynecologist in Delhi. We would like to extend our gratitude for cooperation of the clinical staff and ultrasonologists at both the centers. Informed consent has been taken from the concerned female participants in accordance with the Helsinki World Medical Association protocol 2013.

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    Varsha Garg, Anita Sahoo & Vikas Saxena

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Garg, V., Sahoo, A. & Saxena, V. Enhanced textural analysis for endometrial tuberculosis identification from ultrasound images. Int. j. inf. tecnol. 13, 657–666 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41870-020-00605-7

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