Improved approach towards classification of histopathology images using bag-of-features
Nikhil C. Mhala, Smriti H. Bhandari · 2016
The paper addresses the problem of detecting malignancy in histopathological sample of breast tissue. The proposed method uses bag-of-features approach along with color normalization. The proposed method uses color normalization as pre-processing step prior to feature extraction. SIFT/DCT is used for feature extraction. The images are described using SIFT/DCT descriptor each of 128/192 dimension. Further these image descriptors are quantized using bag-of-feature into predefined codebook of sizes 150 and 500. In classification, image is classified using multi-class SVM classifier which groups image into suitable class namely normal, in-situ, and invasive. The proposed method reports classification accuracy as 100% for ductal carcinoma in situ, 98.88% for invasive carcinoma, and 100% for normal class images. Experimentally, we have found that color normalization as pre-processing step improves the classification accuracy.