A discrimination method for the detection of pneumonia using chest radiograph

• Main Authors: Noor, N.M., Rijal, O.M., Yunus, A., Abu-Bakar, S.A.R.
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier 2010
• Subjects: Q Science (General); R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/15121/
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

This paper presents a statistical method for the detection of lobar pneumonia when using digitized chest X-ray films. Each region of interest was represented by a vector of wavelet texture measures which is then multiplied by the orthogonal matrix Q(2). The first two elements of the transformed vect...