Image analysis and CADx system for mucosal lesions

A computer aided diagnosis (CADx) system for oral mucosal lesions has been developed using clinical cases from India as training examples. The investigated classifiers were support vector machine (SVM) and Bayes point machine (BPM), and the task was to discriminate potentially precancerous lesions from non-precancerous lesions. The discriminating features consisted of color differences and lesionspsila shape properties. The overall classification accuracy was 85% (29 out of 34) for both SVM and BPM classifiers.