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Modeling and classification of knee-joint vibroarthrographic signals using probability density functions estimated
Rangaraj M Rangayyan1, Yunfeng Wu
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, AB, Canada. ranga@ucalgary.ca
Abstract:
Diagnostic information related to the articular cartilage surfaces of knee-joints may be derived from vibro-arthrographic (VAG) signals. Although several studies have proposed many different types of parameters for the analysis and classification of VAG signals, no statistical modeling methods have been explored to represent the fundamental distinctions between normal and abnormal VAG signals. In the present work, we derive models of probability density functions (PDFs), using the Parzen-window approach, to represent the basic statistical characteristics of normal and abnormal VAG signals. The Kullback-Leibler distance (KLD) is then computed between the PDF of the signal to be classified and the PDF models for normal and abnormal VAG signals. A classification accuracy of 73.03% was obtained with a database of 89 VAG signals. The screening efficiency was derived to be 0.6724, in terms of the area under the receiver operating characteristics curve.
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