Incorporating human knowledge in automated celiac disease diagnosis

Gadermayr M, Kogler H, Karla M, Vécsei A, Uhl A, Merhof D (2017)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2017

Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Conference Proceedings Title: 2016 6th International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications, IPTA 2016

Event location: Oulu, FIN

ISBN: 9781467389105

DOI: 10.1109/IPTA.2016.7821009

Abstract

Recently, computer-aided celiac disease diagnosis has been promoted to provide an objective opinion besides histological examination of biopsies and visual assessment of macroscopic mucosal tissue. State-of-the-art techniques, however, are not accurate enough to provide incentive for clinical deployment. In this work, we answer two questions: Do computers and human experts make similar classification errors and can expert knowledge be utilized to increase the accuracy of computer-aided methods. Three experts were asked to perform visual classification of a large number of images. The experts decisions were combined with nine different state-of-the-art image representations. Experimentation showed that the correlations between two computer-based methods were higher than the correlations between an expert and a computer-based method. Furthermore, the inclusion of expert knowledge led to statistically significant (p < 0.05) improvements in 69 out of 108 investigated settings.

Involved external institutions

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen DE Germany (DE) Medizinische Universität Wien AT Austria (AT) Universität Salzburg (Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg) AT Austria (AT)

How to cite

APA:

Gadermayr, M., Kogler, H., Karla, M., Vécsei, A., Uhl, A., & Merhof, D. (2017). Incorporating human knowledge in automated celiac disease diagnosis. In Matti Pietikainen, Abdenour Hadid, Miguel Bordallo Lopez (Eds.), 2016 6th International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications, IPTA 2016. Oulu, FIN: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..

MLA:

Gadermayr, Michael, et al. "Incorporating human knowledge in automated celiac disease diagnosis." Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications, IPTA 2016, Oulu, FIN Ed. Matti Pietikainen, Abdenour Hadid, Miguel Bordallo Lopez, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017.

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