Ovarian cancer is the fifth highest cause of cancer in women and the leading cause of death from gynecological cancers. Accurate diagnosis of ovarian cancer from acquired images is dependent on the expertise and experience of ultrasonographers or physicians, and is therefore, associated with inter observer variabilities. Computer Aided Diagnostic (CAD) techniques use a number of different data mining techniques to automatically predict the presence or absence of cancer, and therefore, are more reliable and accurate. A review of published literature in the field of CAD based ovarian cancer detection indicates that many studies use ultrasound images as the base for analysis. The key objective of this work is to propose an effective adjunct CAD technique called GyneScan for ovarian tumor detection in ultrasound images. In our proposed data mining framework, we extract several texture features based on first order statistics, Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix and run length matrix. The significant features selected using t-test are then used to train and test several supervised learning based classifiers such as Probabilistic Neural Networks (PNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Decision Tree (DT), k-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), and Naïve Bayes (NB). We evaluated the developed framework using 1300 benign and 1300 malignant images. Using 11 significant features in KNN/PNN classifiers, we were able to achieve 100% classification accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive value in detecting ovarian tumor. Even though more validation using larger databases would better establish the robustness of our technique, the preliminary results are promising. This technique could be used as a reliable adjunct method to existing imaging modalities to provide a more confident second opinion on the presence/absence of ovarian tumor.
The phylogenetic relationships within two major locoweed genera,AstragalusandOxytropis, and among varieties of woolly loco found in New Mexico were analyzed by comparing their chloroplastrpoC1 andrpoC2 gene sequences. Nucleic acids from locoweed species and varieties collected from different geographical locations in New Mexico were amplified using specific primer sets and subjected to restriction fragment analyses. Identity of the amplicons was confirmed by determining the 5′-end sequences from pea and woolly loco var.matthewsii. The amplified sequences from all samples were digested with 16 different restriction enzymes. Presence or absence of individual restriction fragments was scored as binary characters and used to develop a similarity coefficient matrix for cladistic analyses to determine the phylogenetic relationships. The target sequence was conserved, yielding 7% polymorphic data.Oxytropisspecies were monophyletic and, as expected, formed a clade distinct fromAstragalus. The average similarity coefficient among woolly loco varieties was very high (0.9733), but the varieties still separated into three different clades. The phylogenetic relationship among woolly loco varieties coincided with their geographic distribution but was unrelated to insect feeding preference.
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