Salim Loudjedi

Work place: Department of Medecine, Tlemcen University, 13000, Algeria

E-mail: loudjdsalim@gmail.com

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Research Interests: Medicine, Medicine & Healthcare

Biography

Salim LOUDJEDI was born in 1969. He received the degree of medical doctor at the University of Medicine of Tlemcen, Algeria in 1993. He studied surgery in the same university and the university of Oran Algeria. He obtained the degree of associate professor in surgery in 2013. He published papers on the topic of Evidence Based Medicine and case report and original study about apendicitis. His current research interest includes laparoscopic treatment of gallstones, education, image processing in laparoscopic approach of treatment of gallstones, image processing in mammography of breast cancer

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New Algorithm for Fractal Dimension Estimation based on Texture Measurements: Application on Breast Tissue Characterization

By Kamila Khemis Sihem A. Lazzouni Mahammed Messadi Salim Loudjedi Bessaid Abdelhafid

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijigsp.2016.04.02, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2016

Fractal analysis is currently in full swing in particular in the medical field because of the fractal nature of natural phenomena (vascular system, nervous system, bones, breast tissue ...). For this, many algorithms for estimating the fractal dimension have emerged. Most of them are based on the principle of box counting. In this work we propose a new method for calculating fractal attributes based on contrast homogeneity and energy that have been extracted from gray level co-occurrence matrix. As application we are investigated in the characterization and classification of mammographic images with SuportVectorMachine classifier. We considered in particular images with tumor masses and architectural disorder to compare with normal ones. We calculate, for comparison the fractal dimension obtained by a reference method (triangular prism) and perform a classification similar to the previous. Results obtained with new algorithm are better than reference method (classification rate is 0.91 vs 0.65). Hence new fractal attributes are relevant. 

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