Abstract:

Objective To reduce the dimension of characteristic information extracted from pelvic CT images by using principal component analysis （PCA） and partial least squares （PLS） methods. To establish a support vector machine （SVM） classification and identification model to identify if there is pelvic injury by the reduced dimension data and evaluate the feasibility of its application. Methods Eighty percent of 146 normal and injured pelvic CT images were randomly selected as training set for model fitting， and the remaining 20% was used as testing set to verify the accuracy of the test， respectively. Through CT image input， preprocessing， feature extraction， feature information dimension reduction， feature selection， parameter selection， model establishment and model comparison， a discriminative model of pelvic injury was established. Results The PLS dimension reduction method was better than the PCA method and the SVM model was better than the naive Bayesian classifier （NBC） model. The accuracy of the modeling set， leave-one-out cross validation and testing set of the SVM classification model based on 12 PLS factors was 100%， 100% and 93.33%， respectively. Conclusion In the evaluation of pelvic injury， the pelvic injury data mining model based on CT images reaches high accuracy， which lays a foundation for automatic and rapid identification of pelvic injuries.

Key words: forensic medicine, pelvis, computed tomography, principal component analysis, partial least squares, support vector machine