GLCM Feature Extraction and PCA for Tuberculosis Detection with Neural Network

Automatic recognition system for medical images is quite a challenging job in the medical image processing field. X-rays, CT, and MRI all provide medical pictures and other modalities which are utilized for diagnostic purposes. As in medical sector, detecting tuberculosis (TB) is a very important stage before further treatment is carried out. Human interpretation of a vast array of X-ray pictures can result in detection mistakes, so an automatic recognition system is needed that can detect TB disease. In this study, we use a dataset with two classes and extract GLCM-based texture features from each class, and apply them to a two-layer feed-forward neural network, which gives a classification rate of 99%.