Application of Feature Extraction and Classification Methods for Histopathological Image using GLCM, LBP, LBGLCM, GLRLM and SFTA

Abstract

Classification of histopathologic images and identification of cancerous areas is quite challenging due to image background complexity and resolution. The difference between normal tissue and cancerous tissue is very small in some cases. So, the features of the tissue patches in the image have key importance for automatic classification. Using only one feature or using a few features leads to poor classification results because of the small difference between the textures. In this study, the classification results are compared using different feature extraction algorithms that can extract various features from histopathological image texture. For this study, GLCM, LBP, LBGLCM, GLRLM and SFTA algorithms which are successful feature extraction algorithms have been chosen. The features obtained from these methods are classified with SVM, KNN, LDA and Boosted Tree classifiers. The most successful feature extraction algorithm for histopathological images is determined and the most successful classification algorithm is determined. © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.