Machine Learning Techniques in Detecting of Pulmonary Embolisms

Computer Aided Detection (CAD) systems have recently been used by physicians to help automatically detect early forms of breast cancer in X-ray images, lung nodules in lung CT images, and polyps in colon CT images. We discuss an automatic detection mechanism using a genetic algorithms (GA) approach to identify and classify Pulmonary Embolisms (PE) captured through Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA). Our method enhances the performance of the classification of diseases as compared to other methodologies discussed in this paper.