Application of Radiomics Based on New Support Vector Machine in the Classification of Hepatic Nodules

Liver cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors. In Asia, liver cancer often develops on a background of cirrhosis caused by chronic hepatitis. The procedure of hepatitis, cirrhotic nodules, dysplastic nodules, and then hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common liver cancer evolutionary process. Judging the stage of hepatic nodules in the evolution process and taking intervention measures are critical for reducing the incidence of liver cancer. In this paper, a more accurate support vector machine (SVM) classification algorithm, LFOA-F-SVM, was proposed for radiomics to classify hepatic nodules from 120 patients into four categories based on dynamic enhanced magnetic resonance images. The algorithm uses radius-margin-based F-SVM, and combines the fruit fly optimization algorithm (FOA) of Levy flight (LF) strategy to optimize the parameters. To verify the effectiveness of the method, five UCI classification data sets (hearts, Parkinson’s disease, iris, wine and zoo) were added and compared with SVM, PSO-SVM, FOA-SVM, F-SVM. The results showed that LFOA-F-SVM has the highest classification accuracy in six data sets compared to the other methods. And in the hepatic nodules data set, the classification precision and recall are relatively high.