Automatic Diagnosis of Thyroid Graves´ Disease in Ultrasound Images

Hyperthyroidism is a common thyroid disease. Graves´ disease is the most common etiology with 70-80% of hyperthyroidism. Conventionally, a diagnosis requires weeks to confirm with blood tests. In this paper, we proposed a novel approach to diagnose Gravespsila disease in ultrasound images directly. We segment the thyroid regions, and utilize a high performance classifier to recognize the regions. The diagnostic result is determined using the area measure of these regions. Experimental results show effectiveness of the proposed approach.