According to recent research published in the journal Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, "The feasibility of using chemometric techniques for the automatic detection of whether a rabbit kidney is pathological or not is studied. Sequential images of the kidney are acquired using Dynamic ContrastEnhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging with contrast agent injection."
"A segmentation approach based upon principal component analysis (PCA) is used to separate out the cortex from the rest of the kidney including the medulla. the renal pelvic, and the background. Two classifiers (Soft independent Method of Class Analogy, SIMCA; Partial Least Squares Discriminant…
