Automatic Detection of Pulmonary Embolism using Computational Intelligence

Scurrell, Simon; Marwala, Tshilidzi; Rubin, David

Automatic Detection of Pulmonary Embolism using Computational Intelligence

Authors

Scurrell, Simon

Marwala, Tshilidzi

Rubin, David

Description

This article describes the implementation of a system designed to automatically detect the presence of pulmonary embolism in lung scans. These images are firstly segmented, before alignment and feature extraction using PCA. The neural network was trained using the Hybrid Monte Carlo method, resulting in a committee of 250 neural networks and good results are obtained.
5 pages