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Pit Pattern Classification in Colonoscopy using Wavelets - WaveLab

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6 Conclusion<br />

correctly. But also <strong>in</strong> the six classes case we obta<strong>in</strong>ed very promis<strong>in</strong>g results for the Outex<br />

images.<br />

The results we ga<strong>in</strong>ed from our experiments showed that for nearly all methods the SVM<br />

classifier outperformed the k-NN classifier, although the differences are not that huge. Regard<strong>in</strong>g<br />

our results and the much higher computational complexity of the SVM classifier<br />

for most of our methods implemented the k-NN would be the better choice. When look<strong>in</strong>g<br />

at our results for the Outex images, the differences between the two classifiers get even<br />

smaller and for one method the classification accuracy of the k-NN classifier is even a bit<br />

higher than for the SVM classifier.<br />

Compar<strong>in</strong>g the results obta<strong>in</strong>ed for the pyramidal wavelet transform and the adaptive<br />

methods, we see that <strong>in</strong> most cases the adaptive methods perform better. This is the case for<br />

the pit pattern images as well as for the Outex images, although the differences are not very<br />

big. In the six classes case with the Outex images the results are even equally well.<br />

6.1 Future research<br />

Regard<strong>in</strong>g our methods and the result<strong>in</strong>g classification accuracy for each method the ma<strong>in</strong><br />

goal of future research must be to get better results, also across the different image classes.<br />

To accomplish this there are several possibilities, which may lead to better results.<br />

As already mentioned above, it is not proven yet whether pit patterns exhibit specific<br />

textural properties. Thus one possibility is try<strong>in</strong>g to f<strong>in</strong>d features which describe a pit pattern<br />

more appropriately. Therefore what we need are features which are more focused on the<br />

structure of pit patterns.<br />

Another possibility is to comb<strong>in</strong>e several different features for the classification process.<br />

This could possibly stabilize the results and eventually produce even better classification<br />

results than we obta<strong>in</strong>ed until now.<br />

Also artificial neural networks have been widely used successfully for classification problems.<br />

Perhaps this classifier could deliver more accurate classification results than the classifiers<br />

we used throughout this thesis.<br />

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