/Traditional-Chinese-Herb-Classification

A bottom-up approach to classification of Traditional Chinese Medicine, using state-of-the-art image processing techniques, combined with machine learning algorithms

Primary LanguagePython

Traditional Chinese Medicine Classification using Machine Learning

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Dataset : (check the images folder)

A sample image from the dataset

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Task

The dataset contains pictures of Traditional Chinese Medicine (7 classes). The objective was to write a good classifier for the given dataset. This repo is contains my Assignment(code + documentation) from the course "Computer Vision MM805", which i took as a part of my MSc in Computing Science at University of Alberta

Approach

  1. Since the dataset pictures donot contain individual Chinese Herb images, we need to first perform segmentation to extract out individual herbs from a given picture.
  2. Step 1 is performed for all the images in the dataset.
  3. The individual herb images, obtained after performing step 1 is stored in the folder named 'extracted' with filenames corresponding to the respective classname of the herbs. This becomes our new dataset. (Please note: after extracting of individual herbs, you should be having a collection of 2164 images)

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Workflow

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Requirements

  1. OpenCV 2.4.11
  2. Python 2.7
  3. scikit-Learn
  4. cPickle

To run the Scripts follows these steps

cd inside the code folder and execute the commands in the specified order

1. First Script

This script will extract individual herbs from all images in the given dataset and construct the new dataset, with the extracted herbs kept inside the 'extracted' folder

python start1.py

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2. Sceond Script

This script load the images and labels from the new dataset of herbs we constructed and used trains the images using Random Forest Classifier. After the classifiaction is done. It chooses 7 images each belonging to different classes, to check how well the classifier works.

python herb_classification.py

Output

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Usage (Please Read Carefully !!)

TO those who are taking this course, please DO NOT copy this content in your assignment . Instead use this repository as a learning example and try to better your code based on this. You can extend this code and add in your own optimizations that yield a better performance.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2016 Shrobon Biswas

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