Paing, May

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Paing, May

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Paing, May Phu

Paing, May Phyu

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School of Engineering

may.pa@kmitl.ac.th

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Deep fusion feature extraction for caries detection on dental panoramic radiographs
(2021-03-01)
Bui, Toan Huy
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Hamamoto, Kazuhiko
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Paing, May Phu
Caries is the most well-known disease and relates to the oral health of billions of people around the world. Despite the importance and necessity of a well-designed detection method, studies in caries detection are still limited and show a restriction in performance. In this paper, we proposed a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) method to detect caries among normal patients using dental radiographs. The proposed method mainly consists of two processes: feature extraction and classification. In the feature extraction phase, the chosen 2D tooth image was employed to extract deep activated features using a deep pre-trained model and geometric features using mathematic formulas. Both feature sets were then combined, called fusion feature, to complement each other defects. Then, the optimal fusion feature set was fed into well-known classification models such as support vector machine (SVM), k-nearest neighbor (KNN), decision tree (DT), Naïve Bayes (NB), and random forest (RF) to determine the best classification model that fit the fusion features set and perform the most preeminent result. The results show 91.70%, 90.43%, and 92.67% for accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity, respectively. The proposed method has outperformed the previous stateof- the-art and shows promising results when none of the measured factors is less than 90%; therefore, the method is promising for dentists and capable of wide-scale implementation caries detection in hospitals.
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Adenoma Dysplasia Grading of Colorectal Polyps Using Fast Fourier Convolutional ResNet (FFC-ResNet)
(2023-01-01)
Paing, May Phu
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Pintavirooj, Chuchart
Colorectal polyps are precursor lesions of colorectal cancer; hence, early detection and dysplasia grading of polyps are essential for determining cancer risk, the possibility of developing subsequent polyps, and follow-up recommendations. The significant contribution of this study is the development of an enhanced deep-learning model called Fast Fourier Convolutional ResNet (FFC-ResNet) to classify dysplasia grades of polyps. It is based on the ResNet-50 architecture and uses cross-feature fusion, which combines local features extracted by traditional spatial convolution with global features extracted by Fourier convolution. Due to the compensatory effect between local and global features, the learnability and performance of FFC-ResNet have increased. The proposed FFC-ResNet was developed and tested using UniToPatho, a dataset containing 7000 μm and 800 μm hematoxylin-and-eosin (H&E)-stained colorectal images. And a favorable performance of sensitivity 0.95, specificity 0.93, balance accuracy 0.94, precision 0.95, F1 score 0.95, and AUC 0.99 was obtained using 800 μm polyp patches.
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A computer aided diagnosis system for detection of lung nodules from series of CT slices
(2017-11-03)
Paing, May Phu
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Choomchuay, Somsak
The proposed system aims to detect the lung nodules from a series of CT scan images. Otsu's thresholding and morphological operations are applied for nodules segmentation. After segmentation, the objects that do not hold the possibility to be nodules are removed. Geometric, histogram as well as texture features are then extracted for benign and malignant nodules classification. Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) is used for classification and the accuracy 95% has been achieved.
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Ground glass opacity (GGO) nodules detection from lung CT scans
(2017-07-01)
Paing, May Phu
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Choomchuay, Somsak
Ground glass opacity (GGO) nodules have a higher possibility of malignancy compared to other types of nodules appeared in the lung cancer. They are very effortful to detect due to their hazy structures and unclear margins. 65% of lung cancers are missed by the radiologists with the faint appearance of the GGO. Consequently, the detection of GGO is a critical issue and a striving task for the radiologists. This research proposes an automatic detection of GGO remained after the detection of solid opacity. Simple thresholding based on grey levels and mathematical image subtraction are applied for segmentation. Possible false after segmentation are reduced by the support vector machine (SVM). In total 37 GGOs, only 2 are missed by proposed segmentation and the false reduction performance is 94%.
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Automated segmentation of infarct lesions in t1‐weighted mri scans using variational mode decomposition and deep learning
(2021-03-02)
Paing, May Phu
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Tungjitkusolmun, Supan
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Bui, Toan Huy
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Visitsattapongse, Sarinporn
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Pintavirooj, Chuchart
Automated segmentation methods are critical for early detection, prompt actions, and immediate treatments in reducing disability and death risks of brain infarction. This paper aims to develop a fully automated method to segment the infarct lesions from T1‐weighted brain scans. As a key novelty, the proposed method combines variational mode decomposition and deep learning-based segmentation to take advantages of both methods and provide better results. There are three main technical contributions in this paper. First, variational mode decomposition is applied as a pre-processing to discriminate the infarct lesions from unwanted non‐infarct tissues. Second, overlapped patches strategy is proposed to reduce the workload of the deep‐learning‐based segmentation task. Finally, a three‐dimensional U‐Net model is developed to perform patch‐wise segmentation of infarct lesions. A total of 239 brain scans from a public dataset are utilized to develop and evaluate the proposed method. Empirical results reveal that the proposed automated segmentation can provide promising performances with an average dice similarity coefficient (DSC) of 0.6684, intersection over union (IoU) of 0.5022, and average symmetric surface distance (ASSD) of 0.3932, respectively.
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Cervical cancer detection and classification from pap smear images
(2019-09-16)
Win, Kyi Pyar
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Kitjaidure, Yuttana
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Paing, May Phyu
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Hamamoto, Kazuhiko
In this paper, we propose a framework for detection and classification of cervical cancer from pap smear images. Early detection and accurate diagnosis of cervical cancer can reduce the death rate of cervical cancer patients. Pap smear or pap test is the most popular technique for early detection of cervical cancer. However, the manual analysis is labor intensive and time consuming process which relies on expert cytologist. Hence, it is needed to develop a computer aided diagnosis system to make the pap smear test more accurate and reliable. The objective of this paper is to present an innovative idea of applying random forest algorithm (RF) as a feature selection method using proposed bagging ensemble classifier for improving the predictive performance. The four basic steps of cervical cancer detection and classification system, image enhancement, segmentation, feature extraction and classification were used. K-means clustering combining with morphology operations obtained good segmentation for cell nuclei and cytoplasm. The most important features, shape, color and texture of nuclei and cytoplasm were applied to detect cervical cancer. To improve the accuracy of prediction results, random forest (RF) algorithm was used as a feature selection method. In classification stage, bagging ensemble classifier was applied which aggregated the results of five classifiers, linear discriminant (LD), support vector machine (SVM), weighted k-nearest neighbor (KNN), boosted trees and bagged trees. Herlev data set was used to prove the effectiveness of our proposed method. According to the experimental results, the high classification accuracy was achieved with top10 features using our proposed combined classifier. The accuracy was 97.83% in two class problem and 81.54% in seven class problem. When the results were compared with five classifiers, our proposed method was significantly better in two class and seven class problems.
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Improved Random Forest (RF) classifier for imbalanced classification of lung nodules
(2018-08-13)
Paing, May Phu
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Choomchuay, Somsak
Computer-aided detection (CAD) for lung cancer acts a dynamic research in biomedical engineering. These CADs generally occur imbalanced data classification because there are a large number of false lesions which are non-nodules (majority class), compared to the actual nodules (minority class). This paper proposes an improved random forest (RF) classifier to solve the learning bias problem of the imbalanced classification. The proposed RF applies sampling and three feature selection schemes namely Relief, Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) to improve the classification performance.
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Comparing AI Decision-Making with Expert Biomarkers: A Case Study on Diabetic Retinopathy Classification
(2025-01-01)
Sharma, Aayushma
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Paing, May Phu
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become prevalent in the healthcare sector due to its ability to interpret complex medical images that may not be apparent to humans. Traditional black-box models were used to classify the disease, providing no information as to why certain things were labeled as such and not others. This paper utilizes the use of eXplainable-AI (XAI), specifically, Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP) which generates mapping between AI decision and biomarker used by the ophthalmologist whereby enhancing results interpretability and transparency in the disease diagnostic tasks. VGG-16 incorporated with batch normalization and label smoothing was used for the classification tasks whereas LRP was employed to perform the heat-map generation to see if the feature extracted and used by AI was consistent with the experts' biomarkers. Our proposed model obtained a classification accuracy of 77.33%, where 165 out of 266 images were aligned with the ophthalmologist's prediction. Furthermore, the significance of heatmap generation was supported by a one-sample Z-test which revealed that the alignment between AI predictions and expert biomarkers is significantly greater than random, with a 95% confidence interval.
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Automatic detection of mediastinal lymph nodes using 3D convolutional neural network
(2019-09-16)
Paing, May Phu
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Pintavirooj, Chuchart
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Tungjitkusolmun, Supan
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Win, Kyi Pyar
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Hamamoto, Kazuhiko
Mediastinal lymph nodes are one of the most critical factors to identify the clinical stages of lung cancer. As the lymph nodes are low in attenuation and cluttering with various shapes and sizes, manual detection is usually error-prone and effort-intensive. This paper introduces a method for automatic detection of mediastinal lymph nodes by proposing three significant contributions. First, we constraint the detection area, mediastinal region, using greylevel thresholding. Next, we apply the watershed method and hessian eigenvalues to separate a cluster of lymph nodes. Finally, we build a three-dimensional convolutional neural network (3D CNN) to distinguish the actual lymph nodes from other false lesions. Our experiment is conducted using 70 CT exams containing 314 lymph nodes and achieved a favorable result with 94 % detection rate.
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Instance segmentation of cells and nuclei from multi-organ cross-protocol microscopic images
(2024-09-01)
Baral, Sushish
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Paing, May Phu
Background: Light microscopy is a widely used technique in cell biology due to its satisfactory resolution for cellular structure analysis, prevalent availability of fluorescent probes for staining, and compatibility for the dynamic analysis of live cells. However, the segmentation of cells and nuclei from microscopic images is not a straightforward process because it has several challenges such as high variation in morphology and shape, the presence of noise and diverse contrast in backgrounds, clustering or overlapping nature of cells. Dealing with these challenges and facilitating more reliable analysis necessitates the implementation of computer-aided methods that leverage image processing techniques and deep learning algorithms. The major goal of this study is to propose a model, for instance segmentation of cells and nuclei, applying the most cutting-edge deep learning techniques. Methods: A fine-tuned You Only Look at Once version 9 extended (YOLOv9-E) model is initially applied as a prompt generator to generate bounding box prompts. Using the generated prompts, a pre-trained segment anything model (SAM) is subsequently applied through zero-short inferencing to produce raw segmentation masks. These segmentation masks are then refined using non-max suppression and simple image processing methods such as image addition and morphological processing. The proposed method is developed and evaluated using an open-sourced dataset called Expert Visual Cell Annotation (EVICAN), which is relatively large and contains 4,738 microscopy images extracted from cross organs using different protocols. Results: Based on the evaluation results on three different levels of EVICAN test sets, the proposed method demonstrates noticeable performances showing average mAP50 [mean average precision at intersection over union (IoU) =0.50] scores of 96.25, 95.05, and 94.18 for cell segmentation, and 68.04, 54.66, and 38.29 for nucleus segmentation on easy, medium, and difficult test sets, respectively. Conclusions: Our proposed method for instance segmentation of cells and nuclei provided favorable performance compared to the existing methods in literature, indicating its potential utility as an assistive tool for cell culture experts, facilitating prompt and reliable analysis.

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