Classification of Chronic Venous Disorders using an Ensemble Optimization of Convolutional Neural Networks. 2022

Bruno Oliveira, and Helena R Torres, and Pedro Morais, and Antonio Baptista, and Jaime Fonseca, and Joao L Vilaca

Chronic Venous Disorders (CVD) of lower limbs are one of the most prevalent medical conditions, affecting 35% of adults in Europe and North America. The early diagnosis of CVD is critical, however, the diagnosis relies on a visual recognition of the various venous disorders which is time- consuming and dependent on the physician's expertise. Thus, automatic strategies for the classification of the CVD severity are claimed. This paper proposed an automatic ensemble-based strategy of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) for the classification of CVDs severity from medical images. First, a clinical dataset containing 1376 images of patients' legs with CVD of 5 different levels of severity was constructed. Then, the constructed dataset was randomly split into training, testing, and validation datasets. Subsequently, a set of DCNN were individually applied to the images for classification. Finally, instead of a traditional voting ensemble strategy, extracted feature vectors from each DCNN were concatenated and fed into a new ensemble optimization network. Experiments showed that the proposed strategy achieved a classification with 93.8%, 93.4%, 92.4% of accuracy, precision, and recall, respectively. Moreover, compared to the traditional ensemble strategy, improvement in the accuracy of ~2% was registered. The proposed strategy showed to be accurate and robust for the diagnosis of CVD severity from medical images. Nevertheless, further research using an extensive clinical database is required to validate the potential of this strategy. Clinical Relevance- An automatic classification of CVD to reduce the probability of underdiagnoses and promote the treatment of CVD in the early stages.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D002318 Cardiovascular Diseases Pathological conditions involving the CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM including the HEART; the BLOOD VESSELS; or the PERICARDIUM. Adverse Cardiac Event,Cardiac Events,Major Adverse Cardiac Events,Adverse Cardiac Events,Cardiac Event,Cardiac Event, Adverse,Cardiac Events, Adverse,Cardiovascular Disease,Disease, Cardiovascular,Event, Cardiac
D005060 Europe The continent north of AFRICA, west of ASIA and east of the ATLANTIC OCEAN. Northern Europe,Southern Europe,Western Europe
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults
D016208 Databases, Factual Extensive collections, reputedly complete, of facts and data garnered from material of a specialized subject area and made available for analysis and application. The collection can be automated by various contemporary methods for retrieval. The concept should be differentiated from DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC which is restricted to collections of bibliographic references. Databanks, Factual,Data Banks, Factual,Data Bases, Factual,Data Bank, Factual,Data Base, Factual,Databank, Factual,Database, Factual,Factual Data Bank,Factual Data Banks,Factual Data Base,Factual Data Bases,Factual Databank,Factual Databanks,Factual Database,Factual Databases
D016571 Neural Networks, Computer A computer architecture, implementable in either hardware or software, modeled after biological neural networks. Like the biological system in which the processing capability is a result of the interconnection strengths between arrays of nonlinear processing nodes, computerized neural networks, often called perceptrons or multilayer connectionist models, consist of neuron-like units. A homogeneous group of units makes up a layer. These networks are good at pattern recognition. They are adaptive, performing tasks by example, and thus are better for decision-making than are linear learning machines or cluster analysis. They do not require explicit programming. Computational Neural Networks,Connectionist Models,Models, Neural Network,Neural Network Models,Neural Networks (Computer),Perceptrons,Computational Neural Network,Computer Neural Network,Computer Neural Networks,Connectionist Model,Model, Connectionist,Model, Neural Network,Models, Connectionist,Network Model, Neural,Network Models, Neural,Network, Computational Neural,Network, Computer Neural,Network, Neural (Computer),Networks, Computational Neural,Networks, Computer Neural,Networks, Neural (Computer),Neural Network (Computer),Neural Network Model,Neural Network, Computational,Neural Network, Computer,Neural Networks, Computational,Perceptron

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