Comparison of Texture Classifier and Human Observer in Diagnosis of Autoimmune Thyroiditis, Observer Variability Evaluation

Abstract

The objective has been to compare success of the texture classifier and a human observer in diagnosis of the autoimmune thyroiditis from B-mode ultrasound images and to determine inter- and intra-observer variability.

Keywords

• Thyroid gland
• autoimmune thyroiditis
• ultrasound image
• B-mode ultrasound
• texture analysis
• computer-aided classification
• inter-observer variability
• intra-observer variability
• Kappa Statistics
• weighted Kappa