| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
An automatic diagnosis method for colorectal cancer from Narrow Band Imaging (NBI) has been developed, based on local context features and randomized decision forests. The local context features are based on a texton map from which texture and local context-based information is extracted from the surrounding area centered on each pixel. The features are very high-dimensional (infinite in principle) and therefore very discriminative, which combined with their huge number and the ability of random forests to handle efficiently such data without over-fitting enables us to achieve very good accuracy from a very small number of training images. Additionally, by providing local pixel-level classification the resulting method is much more general and does not depend on the concrete configuration of patterns available in the training images. The method operates locally and therefore is much better suited for video data also, which makes it applicable to more realistic diagnostic scenarios.
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