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A major problem of computer-aided detection (CAD) for computed tomographic colonography (CTC) is that CAD systems display large numbers of false-positive detections, thereby distracting users. Support vector machine (SVM) classifiers have been a popular choice for reducing false-positive detections in CAD systems. Recently, random forests (RF) have emerged as a novel type of highly accurate classifier. We compared the relative performance of RF and SVM classifiers in automated detection of colorectal lesions in CTC. The CAD system was trained with the CTC data of 123 patients and tested with an independent set of 737 patients. The results indicate that the performance of an RF classifier compares favorably with that of an SVM classifier in CTC.
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Näppi, J.J., Regge, D., Yoshida, H. (2012). Comparative Performance of Random Forest and Support Vector Machine Classifiers for Detection of Colorectal Lesions in CT Colonography. In: Yoshida, H., Sakas, G., Linguraru, M.G. (eds) Abdominal Imaging. Computational and Clinical Applications. ABD-MICCAI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7029. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28557-8_4
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