Feature Analysis of Kidney Ultrasound Image in Four Different Ultrasound using Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) and Intensity Histogram (IH)

Abstract

Misinterpretation analysis of ultrasound images has been huge issues in the world nowadays. Lack of skills and knowledge, as well as unclear ultrasound image due to the presence of speckle noise in ultrasound, are some factors lead to this issue. In this research, we compare 188 kidney ultrasound images from four different types of ultrasound machines, named as ultrasound A, B, C and D. Image pre-processing of images which involve cropping, enhancement, and filtering are performed before manual segmentation and texture analysis process to indicates the wanted region and improve contrast in each image. Texture analysis is performed using gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and intensity histogram (IH) to find differences and similarities in kidney image texture between all ultrasounds. Four GLCM parameters, contrast, correlation, energy and homogeneity and four parameters from IH (mean, standard deviation, variance, and skewness) used to indicate the most significant features between all ultrasound machines. Results show that contrast in GLCM is the most significant features that can be extracted from all four ultrasound machines and will be used in the classification process.