Detection of knee osteoarthritis based on wavelet and random forest model

Abstract

The most recurrent kind of osteoarthritis is Knee osteoarthritis (KOA). Doctors encounter difficulties for a precise diagnosis through its features and to the naked eye. In this paper, we propose a new approach for the classification of KOA by combining the discrete wavelet decomposition (DWT) and random forest classifier from knee X-ray images. A total of 50 images from patients suffering or not from osteoarthritis were used in this study. The suggested technique includes image enhancement using the Gaussian filter followed by Haar wavelet transform. Five texture features namely, contrast, entropy, correlation, energy, and homogeneity were extracted from the transformed image, and these attributes were used to differentiate the radiographs into two groups: normal (KL 0) or affected with osteoarthritis (KL2). Four classifiers including random forest, SVM, RNN, and Naïve Bayes were tested and compared. The results obtained reveal that random forest achieved the highest performance in terms of accuracy (ACC = 88%) on X-Ray images of the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) dataset.