Title
Different approaches for extracting information from the co-occurrence matrix
Abstract
In 1979 Haralick famously introduced a method for analyzing the texture of an image: a set of statistics extracted from the co-occurrence matrix. In this paper we investigate novel sets of texture descriptors extracted from the co-occurrence matrix; in addition, we compare and combine different strategies for extending these descriptors. The following approaches are compared: the standard approach proposed by Haralick, two methods that consider the co-occurrence matrix as a three-dimensional shape, a gray-level run-length set of features and the direct use of the co-occurrence matrix projected onto a lower dimensional subspace by principal component analysis. Texture descriptors are extracted from the co-occurrence matrix evaluated at multiple scales. Moreover, the descriptors are extracted not only from the entire co-occurrence matrix but also from subwindows. The resulting texture descriptors are used to train a support vector machine and ensembles. Results show that our novel extraction methods improve the performance of standard methods. We validate our approach across six medical datasets representing different image classification problems using the Wilcoxon signed rank test.
Department(s)
Information Technology and Cybersecurity
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083554
Publication Date
2013
Recommended Citation
Nanni, Loris, Sheryl Brahnam, Stefano Ghidoni, Emanuele Menegatti, and Tonya Barrier. "Different approaches for extracting information from the co-occurrence matrix." PloS one 8, no. 12 (2013): e83554.
Journal Title
PloS One
