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ABSTRACT
Kidney stone problem (nephrolithiasis) is a common type of urological disease with a high recurrence rate.This disease is a progressive disease that damaged the kidneys leading to be permanent and undone problem. Therefore, it is vital to identify kidney stone disease before the permanent damage is done. If the stone problem is caught in the early stage, kidney disease can be treated very effectively. So, stone diagnosis is vital not only treatment of kidney disease but also management of recurrent stone formation. Hence early detection of kidney stone is essential Ultrasound imaging is one of the available imaging techniques used for diagnosis of kidney abnormalities, which may be like change in shape and position and swelling of limb. During surgical processes it is vital to recognize the true and precise location of kidney stone. The detection of kidney stones using ultrasound imaging is a highly challenging task as they are of low contrast and contain speckle noise. This challenge is overcome by employing suitable image processing techniques. The ultrasound image is first preprocessed to get rid of speckle noise using the image restoration process. The restored image is smoothened using Gabor filter and the subsequent image is enhanced by histogram equalization. The preprocessed image is achieved with level set segmentation to detect the stone region. Segmentation process is employed twice for getting better results; first to segment kidney portion and then to segment the stone portion, respectively. The results are analyzed using MLP-BP ANN algorithms for classification and its type of stone.
Key words : Ultrasound image, Image processing, Image segmentation, Artificial neural networks.
1.INTRODUCTION
Kidney stone disease is one of the major Life threatening ailments persisting Since kidney malfunctioning can be menacing, diagnosis of the problem in the initial stages is advisable. Ultrasound (US) image is one of the currently available methods with noninvasive low cost and widely used imaging techniques for analyzing kidney diseases. The ultrasound image is first preprocessed to get rid of speckle noise using the image restoration process. The restored image is smoothened using Gabor filter and the subsequent image is enhanced by histogram equalization. The preprocessed image is achieved with level set segmentation to detect the stone region. Segmentation process is employed twice for getting better results; first to segment kidney portion and then to segment the stone portion, respectively. Kidney Stones: Kidney stone has the chance of happening in half of people and in about portion of them gets clinically critical manifestations, which incorporates impeding simple stream of urine, swellings inside the kidney, torment in back or flank side of the low back, even queasiness, retching, and perspiring. The clinical name of the arrangement of kidney stone is Nephrolithiasis. It is the collection of salts and certain minerals primarily comprised of calcium and uric corrosive in urine. It is caused because of deficient admission of water. Kidney stone fundamentally happens when our body needs liquid however collects a ton of waste Diabetes, high circulatory strain and corpulence may expand the danger of kidney stone in a person. Ultrasound (US) picture is one of the as of now accessible strategies with noninvasive minimal expense and generally utilized image procedures for breaking down kidney infections. We present our strategy in the execution of US imaging for the assessment of kidney stone go and recognize that different conventions work similarly well. It is normal that these conventions will be altered over time as new hardware opens up. Rahman and Uddin have proposed lessening of dot commotion and division from US picture. It not just distinguishes issue in the kidney area yet in addition gives picture quality improvement. The fundamental goal of this undertaking is to identify the kidney stone from an advanced ultrasound picture of the kidney by performing the different picture handling strategies. In any case, the picture delivered by the ultrasound procedures isn’t appropriate for additional preparing because of low differentiation and the presence of noise called speckle noise. These methods fundamentally assist the specialist with promoting treat the patient dependent on the size and area of the stone.
Medical Ultrasound Scanner
ANN Classification Algorithm :
Two architectures are used in the ANN classification, namely, multilayer perceptron and back propagation, which are described in detail in the following sections. Multilayer Perceptron (MLP). A multilayer perceptron is a feedforward artificial neural network algorithm that helps in the mapping of different sets of energy and average values obtained from the wavelets subbands energy extraction shown in Table 1. These energy values are given to the input layer and multiplied with initial weights. The back propagation is the modified version of linear perceptron which uses three or more hidden layers with the nonlinear activation function. The back propagation is the most extensively used learning algorithm for multilayer perceptron inneural networks and it employs gradient descent to minimize the mean squared error between the network output value and the desired output value. These error signals are taken for completion of the weight updates which represent the power of knowledge learnt by the back propagation. Multilayer perceptron with back propagation (MLP-BP) is the core algorithm. Based on the literature survey, MLP-BP algorithm was found to be better than the other algorithms in terms of accuracy, speed, and performance.
