Pap-smear image classification using randomized neural network based signature

Abstract

This paper presents a state-of-the-art texture analysis method called “randomized neural network based signature” applied to the classification of pap-smear cell images for the Papanicolaou test. For this purpose, we used a well-known benchmark dataset composed of 917 images and compared the aforementioned image signature to other texture analysis methods. The obtained results were promising, presenting accuracy of 87.57% and AUC of 0.8983 using LDA and SVM, respectively. These performance values confirm that the randomized neural network based signature can be applied successfully to this important medical problem.