“…This diagnosis technique is based on captured images of several parts of the human body and a computer-based program for identifying abnormal signs in these parts in lieu of the professional knowledge of doctors. This technique has been successful in many applications, such as brain [6,7,8,9,10], breast [11,12,13,14,15,16,17], lung [18,19,20], and thyroid [21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42] nodule detection/classification problems. For diagnosing thyroid nodules, previous studies focused on designing computer-based systems to perform several functions to detect and/or classify thyroid images into several classes such as nodule versus non-nodule; benign versus malign; follicles versus fibrosis, etc.…”