Parkinson's disease affects millions of people around the world and consequently various approaches have emerged to help diagnose this disease, among which we can highlight handwriting exams. Extracting features from handwriting exams is an important contribution of the computational field for the diagnosis of this disease. In this paper, we propose an approach that measures the similarity between the exam template and the handwritten trace of the patient following the exam template. This similarity was measured using the Structural Cooccurrence Matrix to calculate how close the handwritten trace of the patient is to the exam template. The proposed approach was evaluated using various exam templates and the handwritten traces of the patient. Each of these variations was used together with the Naïve Bayes, OPF, and SVM classifiers. In conclusion the proposed approach was proven to be better than the existing methods found in the literature and is therefore a promising tool for the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease.
According to the World Health Organization, severe lung pathologies bring about 250,000 deaths each year, and by 2030 it will be the third leading cause of death in the world. The usage of (CT) Computed Tomography is a crucial tool to aid medical diagnosis. Several studies, based on the computer vision area, in association with the medical field, provide computational models through machine learning and deep learning. In this study, we created a new feature extractor that works as the Mask R-CNN kernel for lung image segmentation through transfer learning. Our approaches minimize the number of images used by CNN’s training step, thereby also decreasing the number of interactions performed by the network. The model obtained results surpassing the standard results generated by Mask R-CNN, obtaining more than 99% about the metrics of real lung position on CT with our best model Mask + SVM, surpassing methods in the literature reaching 11 seconds for pulmonary segmentation. To present the effectiveness of our approach also in the generalization of models (methods capable of generalizing machine knowledge to other different databases), we carried out experiments also with various databases. The method was able, with only one training based on a single database, to segment CT lung images belonging to another lung database, generating excellent results getting 99% accuracy.
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